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Presidential Support and the Political Use of Presidential Capital

Description: This research incorporates a decision-making theory which defines the linkage between the public, the media, the president and the Congress. Specifically, I argue that the public holds widely shared domestic and international goals and responds to a number of external cues provided by the president and the media in its evaluation of presidential policies. Although most studies examine overall presidential popularity, there are important differences in the public's evaluations of the president's… more
Date: December 1998
Creator: Ault, Michael E.
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The Whigs and the Presidency: National Issues and Campaign Tactics, 1840-1848

Description: The Whig party, which existed in the United States approximately twenty years, 1834-1854, was a coalition of diverse economic, political and social groups united by their disapproval of Jacksonian politics and methods. This minority organization derived its strength from powerful congressional leaders, who held strongly nationalistic ideas regarding economic policy and governmental function, which had a profound and lasting influence on American political and economic thought. In the battle for… more
Date: December 1979
Creator: Baker, Beverly Jeanne
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Mercenaries in Service to America: The "More Flags" Foreign Policy of the United States

Description: On 23 April 1964, five months after assuming the office of President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson launched the "More Flags" program as United States policy. While the publicly stated purpose of.the "More Flags" program was to obtain as much non-military free world aid for the Republic of Vietnam as possible, the program's principle goal centered around Lyndon Johnson's desire to obtain an international consensus for America's policies toward Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The "More Flag… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Blackburn, Robert M. (Robert Michael)
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 1-2: Twenty-Third Congress, First and Second Sessions

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. Session indexes are printed at the start of the session records.
Date: 1835
Creator: Blair & Rives
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 4: Twenty-Fourth Congress, Second Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts on page 3; the appendix starts after page 239 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1837
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 5: Twenty-Fifth Congress, First Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts on page 3; the appendix starts after page 148 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1837
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 6: Twenty-Fifth Congress, Second Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts on page 3; the appendix starts after page 512 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1838
Creator: Blair & Rives
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 7: Twenty-Fifth Congress, Third Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts before page 1; the appendix starts after page 243 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1839
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 8: Twenty-Sixth Congress, First Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts on page 3; the appendix starts after page 552 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1840
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 9: Twenty-Sixth Congress, Second Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts on page 3; the appendix starts after page 262 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1841
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 10: Twenty-Seventh Congress, First Session

Description: The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives. The index to the Globe starts before page 1; the appendix starts after page 454 with a separate index at the end.
Date: 1841
Creator: Blair & Rives
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Beyond Rocking the Vote: An Analysis of Rhetoric Designed to Motivate Young Voters

Description: Attempts to solve the continued problem of low youth voter turnout in the U.S. have included get out the vote drives, voter registration campaigns, and public service announcements targeting 18- to 25-year-old voters. Pay Attention and Vote added to this effort to motivate young voters in its 2006 campaign. This thesis analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Pay Attention and Vote campaign advertisements, measures their effectiveness, and adds to the limited body of knowledge describ… more
Date: August 2007
Creator: Brewer, Angela
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Got Silk?: Buying, Selling, and Advertising British Luxury Imports During the Stamp Act Crisis

Description: Despite the amount of scholarship on the Stamp Act Crisis, no study has used advertisements as a main source. This study attempts to show that a valuable, objective source has been overlooked, through the quantitative analysis of 5,810 advertisements before, during and after the Stamp Act Crisis from five port cities: Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and Portsmouth. The findings reveal the colonists' strong connection to imported British luxury goods, and a lack of interest in Americ… more
Date: August 2007
Creator: Busse, Michele Conrady
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Beyond the Merchants of Death: the Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s and its Role in Twentieth-Century American History

Description: The Senate Munitions Committee of 1934-1936, chaired by Gerald Nye of North Dakota, provided the first critical examination of America's modern military establishment. The committee approached its task guided by the optimism of the progressive Social Gospel and the idealism of earlier times, but in the middle of the munitions inquiry the nation turned to new values represented in Reinhold Niebuhr's realism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second New Deal. By 1936, the committee found its views out o… more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Coulter, Matthew Ware
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DGLA-PAC Endorsements

Description: List of candidates endorsed by the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance Political Action Committee. Includes envelope.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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