Thinkers of the Industrial Age
George W. Bush
1824 – 1900
Politicsquotes
George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former U.S. Air Force officer who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party and the eldest son of the 41st president, George H.
I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
Ansel Adams
1902 – 1984
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Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Ann Richards
1933 – 2006
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Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas, and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882 – 1945
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to have served more than two terms.
Miller Center U Virginia essays by scholars on FDR, ER, cabinet
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 – 1973
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.
I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.
Nancy Pelosi
1940 – present
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Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn.
Ronald Reagan
1911 – 2004
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. The period encompassing his presidency is known as the Reagan era.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
George H. W. Bush
1924 – 2018
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George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989 and previously in various other federal positions.
Words from November 17
"I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes."
George W. Bush
1824
"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
George W. Bush
1824
"Miller Center U Virginia essays by scholars on FDR, ER, cabinet"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882
"Roosevelt's Secret White House Recordings via University of Virginia"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882
"I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years."
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908
"Vietnam War bibliography and guide to online and printed sources"
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908