Americans are as fond of rankings as Japanese people, and they want to give a popularity ranking to everything, but among them, the popularity rankings of successive presidents are very intriguing. It seems that the 1st place really breaks. Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln, Kennedy,
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States Navys Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 13 warships and 188 aircraft, and killed 2,403 US military personnel and 68 civilians. Fearing a possible attack against the American president, F
Tonight, a long excerpt from Antoine Coppolanis excellent biography, Richard Nixon , published by Éditions Fayard in October. I had already reviewed a good book on Nixon, by Romain Huret (https://brumes.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/de-quoi-nixon-est-il-le-nom/). Coppolanis massive work (a biography that
As United States dominance spread westward during the 19th century, the question of The administration of justice in the new territories was a serious problem as a result of the lack of a judicial and police system that could approach the one that prevailed in the more civilized regions of the east