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Packing for Problems

5/25/2016

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Freedom Summer volunteers were instructed to pack $500 for bail and three publicity photos.  

Bruce Watson, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (New York: Viking Penguin, 2010), 19.
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Johnson Hid Nixon's Treason

5/18/2016

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While running for president in 1968, Richard Nixon worked to undermine the 1968 peace talks to end the Vietnam War; President Lyndon Johnson found out and referred to Nixon’s actions as treason, but he decided not to go public because he “didn’t want to make it impossible for [Nixon] to govern.”

Don Fulsom, Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled President (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012), 15.

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Presidential Saluting

5/11/2016

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President Ronald Reagan became the first president to regularly salute soldiers in uniform, and he taught President Bill Clinton how to do so properly when Clinton visited Reagan at his Los Angeles office after the election in 1992.

Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 414-15.  
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Rebellion Leader, Document Follower

5/4/2016

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Of the original 13 states, Massachusetts became the last to adopt a state constitution in 1780.

Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Bill of Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 10.  
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