2012-13 AGLOA Local Presidents
Jr/Sr #25-44
Local Presidents Questions
Junior/Senior Divisions
#25-44
2012-13 AGLOA Local Presidents
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#1
Range:
25-35
(6 points) I began my administration by replacing my
predecessor’s Secretary of the Interior, James Rudolph
Garfield (son of the assassinated president), with
Richard Ballinger, a former Mayor of Seattle. Ballinger's
appointment was a disappointment to conservationists.
Within weeks of taking office, Ballinger reversed some
of my predecessor’s policies by restoring 3 million acres
of government land to private use.
(4 points) There was a Progressive onslaught against me. It was unfortunate
that the Progressives paid little attention to the fact that my administration
initiated 80 antitrust suits and that Congress submitted to the states
amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators. I
also set up the Interstate Commerce Commission that was directed to set
railroad rates.
(2 points) When the Republicans re-nominated me, my predecessor bolted the
party to lead the Progressives, thus guaranteeing the election of a Democratic
President. I would go on to become a Chief Justice of the Untied States Supreme
Court.
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#2
Range:
29-39
(6 points) Important legislation signed into law by me was the Submerged Land
Act which gave states along coastal areas title to the natural resources and
lands below the water to the three mile territorial limit and the bill that created
the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(4 points) My Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and I
devised the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to respond to
the threat of Communist expansion in the Eastern
Hemisphere. I later added a doctrine named after me stating
that the United States would support any Middle Eastern
country against the Communist threat.
(2 points) My wife and I celebrated our 40th wedding
anniversary while in the White House. I was the leader of the
Allied Forces on D Day in 1944, and I was the first president
to serve after the fiftieth state was added to the Union.
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#3
Range:
26-36
(6 points) I selected the well-known William Jennings Bryan
to be my Secretary of State because he supported me in my
run for the presidency. I only nominally consulted with him,
and I made all the major foreign policy decisions myself.
Bryan resigned following the sinking of the British cruise liner
Lusitania because he feared my stern warnings to Germany
would suck the United States into the hostilities.
(4 points) I was born several years before the Civil War, and my family sympathized
with the Confederacy. As a historian at Princeton, I wrote the History of the
American People, which had quotes like “The white men were roused [to secede] by
a mere instinct of self-preservation.” My administration re-segregated the federal
government for the first time since 1863, and I banned Blacks from the White
House. While I was president, General Douglas MacArthur became the youngest
superintendent of West Point.
(2 points) I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for my peace-making efforts
after World War I. My failure, however, was suffered at home when the
Senate declined to approve American acceptance of the League of Nations.
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#4
Range:
28-38
(6 points) When I was a teenager in a boarding school, the headmaster,
Endicott Peabody, instilled in me and others the desire to live a life of public
service by giving back to the community and entering politics. I was happy to do
just that — serving in the State Senate, then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
along with an unsuccessful vice-presidential run with James Cox.
(4 points) With the help of my wife Eleanor, I was able to
stay in the public eye and was elected governor of my home
state during a time of great economic hardship. My fellow
Democrats chose me to carry the banner of the party and run
for president with John N. Garner (pictured) as my running
mate. I appointed General George Marshall as Army Chief of
Staff.
(2 points) Garner did not want to continue as vice president in
our third try at the White House. So my Secretary of
Commerce, Henry Wallace, served as my vice president
during this term.
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#5
Range:
28-38
(6 points) I chose my vice president not because I liked him,
but because I realized that I could not be elected without him.
He helped solidify my support from traditional Southern
Democrats. My vice president accosted my brother Robert, my
Attorney General, in front of friends and officials. Halfway
through my presidency, there were rumors in Washington
circles that I planned to drop my vice president from the
Democratic ticket in the upcoming presidential election.
(4 points) My wife Jackie is remembered for reorganizing
entertainment for White House social events and restoring the
interior of the presidential home. She was extremely popular in
America and throughout the world. While we lived in the White
House, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream”
speech in Washington. I appointed Thurgood Marshall to the
U.S. Court of Appeals.
(2 points) I was the first Catholic to be elected president. My
presidency was cut short at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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#6
Range:
25-35
(6 points) I was the first president since the Civil War to advocate equal rights
for Blacks. I also led an International Conference to limit tonnage and spending
to curtail armaments. My wife enlisted other First Ladies in a campaign to aid
war veterans.
(4 points) In my choices of cabinet members, the most
distinguished and hardest working were my Secretary of
Treasury Andrew Mellon and Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover. On the other hand, my “poker cabinet” -Interior Secretary, Secretary of War, Attorney General,
and Interior Secretary -- were the key figures in the
various scandals that plagued my presidency.
(2 points) On a personal note, I had the biggest feet of all the previous
presidents at size 14, was the first president to have a radio in the White
House, and first for whom women could vote due to the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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#7
Range:
34-44
(6 points) With the help of my Secretary of State, Henry
Kissinger, my administration developed the policy of
Detente, beginning talks to reduce strategic arms (SALT),
encouraging China to expand international trade and
foreign relations, and ending the Vietnam War.
(4 points) In his fifth year as my vice president, Spiro
Agnew was under investigation by the United States
Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of
extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. He was forced
to resign as a result of his actions. Cesar Chavez led a
march to the Mexican border to protest the use of illegal
immigrants as strikebreakers.
(2 points) Like my first vice president, I left office in disgrace because of my
role in covering up the Watergate break-in.
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#8
Range:
34-44
(6 points) I inherited from my predecessor one of the worst
economies since the Great Depression. I selected Donald Regan to
serve as Treasury Secretary, making him the spokesman for my
economic policies. He helped engineer changes in the tax code,
reducing income tax rates and decreasing taxes for corporations.
By the end of my administration, the nation was enjoying its longest
recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or
depression.
(4 points) Only 69 days after becoming president, I
was shot by John Hinckley, a would-be assassin. I
quickly recovered and returned to duty. My grace and
wit during the dangerous incident caused my
popularity to soar. I appointed Sandra Day O’Connor
as the first female justice of the Supreme Court.
(2 points) I moved to Los Angeles in 1937 where I
began a career as an actor, first in films and later
television. Some of my most notable films include
Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime
for Bonzo. I later served as president of the Screen
Actors Guild.
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#9
Range:
34-44
(6 points) My second term as president was highlighted by
several free trade agreements. I also pushed the Energy Policy
Act and for offshore and domestic drilling. I nominated Justices
John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court and
pushed for Social Security and immigration reform.
(4 points) I selected Condoleezza Rice, the first
African-American woman to serve as Secretary
of State. Rice championed my goal to advance
democratic reform and support basic rights
throughout the Middle East.
(2 points) The airborne terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted
flight against the White House on September 11, in
which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed,
transformed me into a wartime president.
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#10
Range:
33-43
(6 points) During my administration, I could point to the lowest unemployment
rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home
ownership in the country’s history, dropping crime rates in many places, and
reduced welfare rolls. I proposed the first balanced budget in decades and
achieved a budget surplus.
(4 points) I selected Madeleine Albright as Secretary of
State. She was the first woman ever to hold this position.
She helped me shape my policy for the U.S. role in
participating in the wars in Kosovo and Bosnia.
(2 points) My wife Hillary was the first to have an office in
the West Wing of the White House. She was part of the
innermost circle reviewing appointments to the new
administration, and her choices filled at least eleven toplevel positions and dozens of lower-level ones. She is
regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife
in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.
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#11
Range:
31-41
(6 points) My foreign policy accomplishments included the Panama Canal
treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel,
the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic
relations with the People’s Republic of China.
(4 points) My Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, approached
foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and
a special interest in arms reduction. Vance resigned in protest
of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue the
American hostages in Iran. I replaced Vance with Edmund
Muskie.
(2 points) My most controversial decision
was to boycott the Summer Olympics in
Moscow in response to the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan. I lost my bid for reelection
because of a “stagflation” economy.
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#12
Range:
26-36
(6 points) As president of the New York City Police Commission, I helped reform
one of the most corrupt police forces in America. I was later appointed the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy by William McKinley.
(4 points) I kept my predecessor’s cabinet and promised to continue his
policies. One of my first notable acts as president was to curb the power of large
corporations called trusts. For my aggressive attacks on trusts over my two
terms, I was called the “Trust Buster.” In 2001, I was posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor for my actions leading the Rough Riders on San Juan Hill.
(2 points) I was the first president to do the following things:
• Fly in an airplane
• Be submerged in a submarine
• Travel outside the borders of the U.S. while in office
• Win the Nobel Peace Prize
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#13
Range:
25-35
(6 points) Rutherford B. Hayes was my commanding officer during the Civil
War. After the war, I settled in Canton, where I practiced law. I was later
elected to Congress and became an expert on the protective tariff. Before
becoming president I was elected governor of my native state.
(4 points) My first Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius Bliss,
eventually left his position and returned to the business
world. My first vice president, Garrett Hobart, died in office,
and I replaced him with the person who would become my
successor.
(2 points) I asked Congress to declare war on Spain after the
USS Maine mysteriously blew up while visiting Cuba. I always
wore a red carnation on my lapel for good luck. However,
while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New
York, I was struck by an assassin’s bullet.
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#14
Range:
34-44
(6 points) I took a lot of flack over my selection of my
Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner (pictured),
because he hadn’t paid $35,000 in self-employment taxes
for four years. My Attorney General, Eric Holder, was
accused of obstructing the Congressional probe into the
Fast and Furious Scandal where the government let
thousands of weapons fall into the hands of Mexican drug
cartels.
(4 points) Shortly after taking office, I won the Nobel Peace Prize. I devoted the
first full year of my term getting a health care bill passed. The Democratic Party
lost 63 seats in the House of Representatives halfway through my term. I called
this “humbling” and a “shellacking.” I said the results came because not enough
Americans had felt the effects of the economic recovery.
(2 points) I was raised with help from my grandparents. My wife Michelle has
been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy due to her sense of style and also to
Barbara Bush for her discipline and decorum.
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#27 William Howard Taft
#34 Dwight Eisenhower
#28 Woodrow Wilson
#32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
#35 John F. Kennedy
#29 Warren Harding
#37 Richard Nixon
#40 Ronald Reagan
#43 George W. Bush
#42 Bill Clinton
#39 Jimmy Carter
#26 Theodore Roosevelt
#25 William McKinley
#44 Barack Obama
Range:
25-44