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|1896
|1896
|1897-1900
|1897-1900
|McKinley, William
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|1901 assumed office
|1901 assumed office
|1909-1905
|1909-1905
| rowspan="2" |Roosevelt, Theodore (TR)
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|1908
|1908
|1909-1913
|1909-1913
|Taft, William Howard
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|1912
|1912
|1913-1917
|1913-1917
| rowspan="2" |Wilson, Woodrow
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|1920
|1920
|1921-1923
|1921-1923
|Harding, Warren
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* economic recovery from panic of 1920/21
* recovery from WWI
* "return to normalcy"
** reducing taxes and regulations from the War
** focusing on economy not regulations/
** isolationist
* "Teapot Dome scandal" (Alaska land deal corruption)
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* economy
* scandal
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|1923 assumed office
|1923 assumed office
|1923-1925
|1923-1925
| rowspan="2" |Coolidge, Calvin
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|1928
|1928
|1929-1933
|1929-1933
|Hoover, Herbert
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* 1929 Stock Market crash
* Smoot-Hawley Act (tariffs)
* bank failures, etc.
* lame duck period
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* Great Depression starts
* inability to deal with it economically and politically
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|1932
|1932
|1933-1937
|1933-1937
| rowspan="4" |Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR)
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* Great Depression/ New Deal
* Great Depression/ New Deal
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* economic regulation
* economic regulation


* Fireside chats
* Fireside chats (radio talks)
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* "Nothing to fear but fear itself"
* "Nothing to fear but fear itself"
* had poor economic response (NRA didn't work, didn't solve the depression), but had a very strong political response (public opinion, perception of dealing it, doing something, etc)
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|1936
|1936
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|1941-1944
|1941-1944
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* war footing, preparation without official entry to the war
* Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
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|1945 assumed office
|1945 assumed office
|1945-1949
|1945-1949
| rowspan="2" |Truman, Harry S.
| rowspan="2" |'''Truman, Harry S.'''
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* Truman doctrine
* Truman doctrine
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|1952
|1952
|1953-1957
|1953-1957
| rowspan="2" |Eisenhower, Dwight
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* ends Korean War
* ends Korean War
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|1960
|1960
|1961-1963
|1961-1963
|Kennedy, John F (JFK)
|'''Kennedy, John F (JFK)'''
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* Bay of Pigs
* Bay of Pigs
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|1963 assumed office
|1963 assumed office
|1963-1965
|1963-1965
| rowspan="2" |Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)
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* 1964 Civil Rights law
* 1964 Civil Rights law
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|1968
|1968
|1969-1973
|1969-1973
|Nixon, Richard M.
|'''Nixon, Richard M.'''
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* escalates bombing of N. Vietnam
* escalates bombing of N. Vietnam
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|1974
|1974
|1974-1977
|1974-1977
|Ford, Gerald R.
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* Nixon pardon
* Nixon pardon
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|1976
|1976
|1977-1981
|1977-1981
|Carter, Jimmy
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* inflation / stagflation / gas crisis
* inflation / stagflation / gas crisis
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|1980
|1980
|1981-1985
|1981-1985
| rowspan="2" |Reagan, Ronald
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* Reaganomics
* Reaganomics
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|1988
|1988
|1989-1993
|1989-1993
|Bush, Herbert Walker (HW Bush)
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* Collapse of Soviet Union / "peace dividend"
* Collapse of Soviet Union / "peace dividend"
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|1992
|1992
|1993-1997
|1993-1997
| rowspan="2" |Clinton, Bill
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|2000
|2000
|2001-2005
|2001-2005
| rowspan="2" |Bush, George W (GW Bush)
| rowspan="2" |'''Bush, George W (GW Bush)'''
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|2008
|2008
|2009-2013
|2009-2013
| rowspan="2" |Obama, Barack
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|2016
|2016
|2017-2021
|2017-2021
|Trump, Donald
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|2020
|2020
|2021-
|2021-
|Biden, Joe
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