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Despite his many accomplishments, he had a rather spotty civil and human rights record, explicitly excluding Mexican Americans from New Deal benefits, forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans, and discouraging and disqualifying many Jewish refugees from Europe.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Before his presidency, he was a businessman and reality TV show host, with five of his businesses filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (one of them twice) and his unlicensed ersatz “university” being forced to close amid a spate of investigations, lawsuits and student complaints.
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Donald Trump
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Formally authorized escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1962.
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John F. Kennedy
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Died in office in 1945, less than 30 days before Germany’s surrender from World War II.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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His New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations designed to provide relief for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly; help the economy recover from the Great Depression; and reform the financial system to avoid a repeat of the depression.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Alaska (1959) and Hawaii (1959) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A strong supporter of NATO when it was established in 1949, he appointed General Eisenhower as supreme commander of NATO forces.
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Harry S. Truman
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Only President born in Georgia.
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Jimmy Carter
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The 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).
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John F. Kennedy
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Presided over the end of the Cold War, and signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by which the U.S. and the Soviet Union (under Mikhail Gorbachev) agreed to cut their strategic nuclear weapons by 30 percent. (The Soviet Union dissolved five months later.)
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George H. W. Bush
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In post-presidency civil trials, was found liable for sexual abuse, defamation (twice) and fraud (multiple counts). In addition, four grand juries indicted him on a total of 91 felony criminal counts.
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Donald Trump
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Approved the schedule for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Harry S. Truman
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Mostly pursued a policy of non-interventionism in Latin America, although he did send warships to El Salvador in 1931 to support President Araujo against a coup d’état led by Araujo’s minister of war.
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Herbert Hoover
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The 45th President of the United States (2017-2021).
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Donald Trump
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His acting career (mostly in B movies) was interrupted by World War II.
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Ronald Reagan
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Presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and was the first President of the Baby Boomer generation.
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Bill Clinton
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During his administration, inflation reached 12%, unemployment reached 9%, and the federal budget ran a deficit every year (as high as $53 billion in 1975 and $73.7 billion in 1976).
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Gerald Ford
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Only President born in Missouri.
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Harry S. Truman
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Broke ties with Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista by Fidel Castro, and authorized a CIA operation to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks and sabotage, kill civilians, and cause economic damage.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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His economic policy relied on economic deregulation, tax cuts, discretionary domestic spending cuts, and increased military spending … nearly tripling the national debt.
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Ronald Reagan
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