/u/SupremeAiBot's posts in /r/Presidents
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Ronald Reagan heckled in the Bronx in 1980. This neighborhood was in an economic decline and Jimmy Carter visited the same spot in his first year pledging aid but failed to.
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The backgrounds of democratic vs republican VP nominees. Every democrat nominated for President in the last 100 years but Mondale has picked a Senator as their running mate.
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In 1927, Taft as Chief Justice voted to uphold a eugenic law passed by Virginia allowing its agencies to pick individuals deemed “unfit” to reproduce and sterilize them. The Plaintiff, a rape victim Carrie Buck, was sterilized for being “feeble minded and promiscuous.”
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A letter from Lincoln to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune called "the angriest, nastiest written statement Lincoln ever produced." He enclosed a clipping that he felt could undermine his race against Stephen Douglas, writing "How, in God’s name, do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune?"
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