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आयल एंड इन्दिंस दोन'टी मीक्ष
There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them.
If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shooing methods include: bulldozers, bullets, crooked politicians and fake land sales.
But be aware. Lately, the natives are shooing back. Last week, indigenous Peruvians seized an oil pumping station, grabbed the nine policemen guarding it and, say reports, executed them. This followed the government's murder of more than a dozen rain forest residents, who had protested the seizure of their property for oil drilling.
Again and again, I see it in my line of work of investigating fraud. Here are a few pit stops on the oily trail of tears:
In the 1980s, Charles Koch was found to have pilfered about $3 worth of crude from Stanlee Ann Mattingly's oil tank in Oklahoma. Here's the weird part. Koch was (and remains) the 14th richest man on the planet, worth about $14 billion. Stanlee Ann was a dirt-poor Osage Indian.
Stanlee Ann wasn't Koch's only victim. According to secret tape recordings of a former top executive of his company, Koch Industries, the billionaire demanded that oil tanker drivers secretly siphon a few bucks worth of oil from every tank attached to a stripper well on the Osage Reservation where Koch had a contract to retrieve crude.
Koch, according to the tape, would "giggle" with joy over the records of the theft. Koch's own younger brother Bill ratted him out, complaining that, in effect, brothers Charles and David cheated him out of his fair share of the looting, which totaled over three-quarters of a billion dollars from the native lands.
The FBI filmed the siphoning with hidden cameras, but criminal charges were quashed after quiet objections from Republican senators.
Then there are the Chugach natives of Alaska. The Port of Valdez, Alaska, is arguably one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on earth, the only earthquake-safe, ice-free port in Alaska that could load oil from the giant North Slope field. In 1969, Exxon and British Petroleum companies took the land from the Chugach and paid them one dollar. I kid you not.
Wally Hickel, the former governor of Alaska, dismissed my suggestion that the Chugach deserved a bit more respect (and cash) for their property. "Land ownership comes in two ways, Mr. Palast." explained the governor and pipeline magnate, "Purchase or conquest. The fact that your granddaddy chased a caribou across the land doesn't make it yours." The Chugach had lived there for 3,000 years.
No oil company would dream of digging on the Bush family properties in Midland, Texas, without paying a royalty. Or drilling near Malibu without the latest in environmental protections. But when natives are on top of Exxon's or BP's glory hole, suddenly, the great defenders of private property rights turn quite Bolshevik: Lands can be seized for The Public's Need for Oil.
Some natives are "re-located" through legal flim-flam, some at gunpoint. The less lucky are left to wallow, literally, in the gunk left by the drilling process.
Chief Emergildo Criollo told me how oil company executives helicoptered into his remote village and, speaking in Spanish - which the Cofan didn't understand - "purchased" drilling rights with trinkets and cheese. The natives had never seen cheese. ("The cheese smelled funny, so we threw it in the jungle.")
After drilling began, Criollo's son went swimming in his usual watering hole, came up vomiting blood and died.
I asked Chevron about the wave of poisonings and deaths. According to an independent report, 1,401 deaths, mostly of children, mostly from cancers, can be traced to Chevron's toxic dumping.
Chevron's lawyer told me, "And it's the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States? ... They have to prove that it is our crude," which, he noted with glee, "is absolutely impossible."
Big Oil treats indigenous blood like a cheap gasoline additive. That's why the Peruvians are up in arms. The Cofan of Ecuador, unlike their brothers in Peru, have taken no hostages. Rather, they have heavily armed themselves with lawyers.
But Chevron and its Big Oil brethren remain dismissive of the law. This week, Shell Oil, got rid of a nasty PR problem by paying $15 million to the Ogoni people and the family of Ken Saro-Wiwa for the oil giant's alleged role in the killing of Wiwa and his associates, activists who had defended these Nigeria Delta people against drilling contamination. Shell pocketed $31 billion last year in profits and hopes the payoff will clear the way for a drilling partnership with Nigeria's government.
Congratulations, Shell. $15 million: For a license to kill and drill, that's a quite a bargain.
If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shooing methods include: bulldozers, bullets, crooked politicians and fake land sales.
But be aware. Lately, the natives are shooing back. Last week, indigenous Peruvians seized an oil pumping station, grabbed the nine policemen guarding it and, say reports, executed them. This followed the government's murder of more than a dozen rain forest residents, who had protested the seizure of their property for oil drilling.
Again and again, I see it in my line of work of investigating fraud. Here are a few pit stops on the oily trail of tears:
In the 1980s, Charles Koch was found to have pilfered about $3 worth of crude from Stanlee Ann Mattingly's oil tank in Oklahoma. Here's the weird part. Koch was (and remains) the 14th richest man on the planet, worth about $14 billion. Stanlee Ann was a dirt-poor Osage Indian.
Stanlee Ann wasn't Koch's only victim. According to secret tape recordings of a former top executive of his company, Koch Industries, the billionaire demanded that oil tanker drivers secretly siphon a few bucks worth of oil from every tank attached to a stripper well on the Osage Reservation where Koch had a contract to retrieve crude.
Koch, according to the tape, would "giggle" with joy over the records of the theft. Koch's own younger brother Bill ratted him out, complaining that, in effect, brothers Charles and David cheated him out of his fair share of the looting, which totaled over three-quarters of a billion dollars from the native lands.
The FBI filmed the siphoning with hidden cameras, but criminal charges were quashed after quiet objections from Republican senators.
Then there are the Chugach natives of Alaska. The Port of Valdez, Alaska, is arguably one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on earth, the only earthquake-safe, ice-free port in Alaska that could load oil from the giant North Slope field. In 1969, Exxon and British Petroleum companies took the land from the Chugach and paid them one dollar. I kid you not.
Wally Hickel, the former governor of Alaska, dismissed my suggestion that the Chugach deserved a bit more respect (and cash) for their property. "Land ownership comes in two ways, Mr. Palast." explained the governor and pipeline magnate, "Purchase or conquest. The fact that your granddaddy chased a caribou across the land doesn't make it yours." The Chugach had lived there for 3,000 years.
No oil company would dream of digging on the Bush family properties in Midland, Texas, without paying a royalty. Or drilling near Malibu without the latest in environmental protections. But when natives are on top of Exxon's or BP's glory hole, suddenly, the great defenders of private property rights turn quite Bolshevik: Lands can be seized for The Public's Need for Oil.
Some natives are "re-located" through legal flim-flam, some at gunpoint. The less lucky are left to wallow, literally, in the gunk left by the drilling process.
Chief Emergildo Criollo told me how oil company executives helicoptered into his remote village and, speaking in Spanish - which the Cofan didn't understand - "purchased" drilling rights with trinkets and cheese. The natives had never seen cheese. ("The cheese smelled funny, so we threw it in the jungle.")
After drilling began, Criollo's son went swimming in his usual watering hole, came up vomiting blood and died.
I asked Chevron about the wave of poisonings and deaths. According to an independent report, 1,401 deaths, mostly of children, mostly from cancers, can be traced to Chevron's toxic dumping.
Chevron's lawyer told me, "And it's the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States? ... They have to prove that it is our crude," which, he noted with glee, "is absolutely impossible."
Big Oil treats indigenous blood like a cheap gasoline additive. That's why the Peruvians are up in arms. The Cofan of Ecuador, unlike their brothers in Peru, have taken no hostages. Rather, they have heavily armed themselves with lawyers.
But Chevron and its Big Oil brethren remain dismissive of the law. This week, Shell Oil, got rid of a nasty PR problem by paying $15 million to the Ogoni people and the family of Ken Saro-Wiwa for the oil giant's alleged role in the killing of Wiwa and his associates, activists who had defended these Nigeria Delta people against drilling contamination. Shell pocketed $31 billion last year in profits and hopes the payoff will clear the way for a drilling partnership with Nigeria's government.
Congratulations, Shell. $15 million: For a license to kill and drill, that's a quite a bargain.
Monday, May 25, 2009
"अमेरिकन ड्रीम"
The American Dream from a European point of view is that one can come out of a low social class and go into any class one desires. Meaning, a person born into a poor, uneducated family can become a millionaire with an education in a good University. A person is even able to obtain the Presidency of the United States without a formal education like President Jackson and President Lincoln.
The dream constitutes an ideal of notions that as long as one works hard and is diligent one will be able to obtain anything - nothing will stand in the way. The Puritan philosophy was if one followed the Commandments’ of God and followed the community these tenants of faith would enhance one’s life and God would therefore shine upon that family and give them the ability to reach fortune and happiness.
Today the American Dream has become distorted; the Dream has become materialistic to an idealistic society - where the American people value homes, cars, and what type of phones, computers, and IPods they carry instead of their integrity. Their credit cards are more important than their families and they spend more time with gadgets then quality time with friends.
The government, churches, and academia, are all desperately attempting to have humanity realize where the true value of the beauty of life lies. However, this will be a great task. Economics has taken its toll of the American Dream. Capitalists did not take into account the drastic effect it would have on humanity and the environment. It will take a miracle of miracles to bring back the original American Dream back of humanity is created equal, life liberty, and justice. These were the original ideas of John Locke’s theory of life and Plato’s thoughts on the Beauties.
The dream constitutes an ideal of notions that as long as one works hard and is diligent one will be able to obtain anything - nothing will stand in the way. The Puritan philosophy was if one followed the Commandments’ of God and followed the community these tenants of faith would enhance one’s life and God would therefore shine upon that family and give them the ability to reach fortune and happiness.
Today the American Dream has become distorted; the Dream has become materialistic to an idealistic society - where the American people value homes, cars, and what type of phones, computers, and IPods they carry instead of their integrity. Their credit cards are more important than their families and they spend more time with gadgets then quality time with friends.
The government, churches, and academia, are all desperately attempting to have humanity realize where the true value of the beauty of life lies. However, this will be a great task. Economics has taken its toll of the American Dream. Capitalists did not take into account the drastic effect it would have on humanity and the environment. It will take a miracle of miracles to bring back the original American Dream back of humanity is created equal, life liberty, and justice. These were the original ideas of John Locke’s theory of life and Plato’s thoughts on the Beauties.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
US HISTORY
Hillary Rodham Clinton History Waiting in the Wings
North Central Texas College
Sigrid Manon de Nijs
US History 1865 11:00 T-TR
Professor Pat Ledbetter
18 April 2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton: History Waiting in the Wings
The debate about the heart of President Andrew Jackson still goes on in today’s conundrum of ideologies. Jackson’s leadership became the rise of the common man as a supreme political force in an experimental country. Although he, at times, was a conundrum, it is understandable; he became a determined, principled man from his childhood experiences.
His Scottish-Irish father died before he was born and left his Irish mother to raise three boys by herself in the frontier days. This equated to the inheritance of fighting the British, as his grandfather had in Ireland, which Jackson displayed when he joined the American patriots at twelve. He continued his war-like nature as he became older. Nevertheless, his contrasting nature shows by his deep, humanist devotion to his wife, Rachael Jackson.
Jackson won his first run at the presidency with the electoral vote and the popular vote; however, he did not have the majority vote. Thus, when he discovered that he had lost the presidency to a conspiracy, he expanded the political rights of the common man by the promotion of suffrage to cover all white, male men. Currently, this suffrage looks limited; however, in those days, this was a dramatic expansion of the right to vote.
He was also a veteran of knowledge about the natural man, and his inner true light guided him. Jackson became a national hero and the seventh president of the United States of America. A few weeks after he won the election his wife, Rachael, died and left him to run the US by himself without the guidance of a gentler person by his side (Remini 169). Today, Jacksonian Democracy is a complex mixture of ideologies.
This Jacksonian philosophy comes from a pure sustenance for the common man. In the first days of his office, he pledged to rotate personnel in government offices, get rid of national debt (against Hamilton beliefs), balance tariffs, move the Indians to the west of the Mississippi River, get rid of the Bank of the US, and reform the Second Bank of the US.
During Jackson’s first term in office, as president, his first veto out of twelve was the Mayhill Road Bill, which would have enhanced the building of the west frontier and made the Northeast merchants happy (Remini 161).
The next item of the Jacksonian principals was that of national jurisdiction contrasting statehood authority. In the case Georgia vs. Cherokee Nation, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Nation for their right to stay in Georgia. At the time of this decision, the Supreme Court did not have the ‘supreme’ authority that it has today. Jackson, being the man that he was, entitled the state of Georgia their rights and said, “Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has rendered his opinion; now let him enforce it” (Remini 216) This is an archetypical Jacksonian declaration.
In the years of Jackson, he would sign over ninety Indian treaties, which the government now and then honored; the final Indian policy Jackson was involved in was the “Trail of Tears.” This was the “Removal Policy” in the end when thousands of Cherokee Indians died in the process of moving.
Before Jackson was president, he had been a ruthless warrior; and earlier in the history of the colonies, there had been numerous Indian tribes, which had vanished in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, some from disease, others at the hands of Anglo-Americans. Jackson himself lived through these times and witnessed these events. As well as, Jacksons adopted, Indian Creek, son had died at sixteen, of tuberculosis, prior to his wife’s death to the rise of Jackson’s presidency (Remini 169). In addition, with the Anglo hunger for land, the president’s Scottish-Irish instinct knew that the Anglo neighbors would kill the Indians if the Cherokees would have stayed in the Georgia areas (Wiletz 68).
One of Jackson pet peeves was his unshakable decisions concerning the Hamiltonian idea of debt. He believed that a few individuals should not monopolize the government; who, at the time, were wealthy landowners, the lone group of people with the right to vote and by organizations as the National Bank, which he fought to abolish.
He also issued the proclamation of the “Specie Circular,” and ‘hard’ money (gold-silver) could purchase government land. Jackson planned to abolish the National Bank, and he began to deposit money into state ‘pet banks’; therefore, it was the first time in federal government history that a surplus existed. Notwithstanding, Jackson single-handed and with tremendous opposition from powerful individuals reformed the way the United States Bank operated (Remini 163).
While there are many controversial issues about the policies of President Jackson, his ideologies and actions have had a profound effect on how the US government operates today. There are too many items to list to the Jacksonian principles,
Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one the government officials that has incorporated these ideologies. The courage of Jackson is comparable to that of this woman. The former first lady of the US during the William Clinton administration has been involved with politics in a unique way.
In the beginning of her tenure as First Lady, she was involved with the formulation of the ill-fated health plan under her husband’s, Bill Clinton, administration (Cowart). Although the plan was defeated in Congress, Ms. Clinton defended her position of the health plan with conviction in front of the American public as no other wife of a president had.
In addition, she stood by her husband, President Clinton, after a scandal with the “improper relationship” with Monica Lewinsky. This incident did not stop her tenacity similar to, “Old Hickory,” Jackson, after her husband’s term in office, she ran for the US Senate in the State of New York. Moreover, this was against Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City and a favorite among New Yorkers.
Even some of her constituents painted her as a “carpetbagger” because she was not indigenous to the state, nor did Ms. Clinton reside in New York prior to the elections (Nagourney). Ms. Clinton had the vigor to go head-to-head with Giuliani and to become the first former First Lady to win a seat in Congress.
It was barely eight months into her tenure when New York experienced the devastating attack on American soil when Al-Qaeda terrorists flew two commercial planes into the World Trade Center, in downtown New York, on September 11, 2001. Ms. Clinton moved swiftly to obtain funding for the recovery effort and made many other efforts to ensure that the city and the state managed to cope with the attack. This event might explain her support for the invasion of the Iraq and Afghanistan.
During her second term, Hillary Rodham Clinton vied for the Democratic ticket for the presidency of the US. Nevertheless, it was a close race with Barack Obama; the campaign was intense, and, at some points, the campaign threatened to take a racial turn, which both leading candidate strived to avoid. At the end of the campaign, Obama had garnered the the majority of support. Nevertheless, Ms. Clinton had run the most successful presidential campaign by an American woman in history.
Ms. Clinton continues to serve with similar courage and dignity, which describes Jacksonian style to a tee. It takes courage to take a stand and to defend your position regardless of the voices of the detractors.
Furthermore, it is easy to see why the Obama cabinet would choose Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Secretary of Defense. She has the dignity, the poise, and the courage to look someone in the eyes and know how to handle difficult circumstances. Clinton is able to asses a situation with a keen sense. She can judge the state of affairs from the perspective be it manifest destiny, be it good for the nation, be it good for humanity, or be it war. She is a woman on a mission. Clinton is a capable leader with fearless courage as Secretary of Defense, and with Jacksonian principals, she meets history boldly as it is waiting in the wings.
Works Cited
"American President: Andrew Jackson." Miller Center of Public Affairs. 2009. U of Virginia. 11 Apr. 2009.
"Biography of Andrew Jackson." Welcome to the White House. 1999. US Gov. 18 Apr. 2009.
Cowart, Dick. "Will Hillary help or hurt Bredesen?" AARP: BulletinToday. 10 Feb. 2009.
Tennessean. 11 Apr. 2009.
D'Urso, Tony. "Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar: 11/12 Specie Circular." From Revolution to Reconstruction - an HTML Project (2003). 6 Mar. 2003. U of Groningen. 18 Apr. 2009.
House Representatives. US Government. "Senators Clinton and Schumer,
Representatives Maloney and Nadler Welcome Approval of $50 Million for 9/11 Health.” Press release. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. 25 May 2007. US Gov. 11 Apr. 2009.
Nagourney, Adam. "In a Kennedy's Legacy, Lessons and Pitfalls For Hillary Clinton; Carpetbagger Issue Has Echoes of '64, But Differences Could Prove Crucial - The New York Times." The New York Times. 10 Sept. 2000. 28 Apr. 2009.
Remini, Robert Vincent. Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. 19 Apr. 2009.
Wilentz, Sean. Andrew Jackson. Ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. New York: Times Books, 2005.
Hillary Rodham Clinton History Waiting in the Wings
North Central Texas College
Sigrid Manon de Nijs
US History 1865 11:00 T-TR
Professor Pat Ledbetter
18 April 2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton: History Waiting in the Wings
The debate about the heart of President Andrew Jackson still goes on in today’s conundrum of ideologies. Jackson’s leadership became the rise of the common man as a supreme political force in an experimental country. Although he, at times, was a conundrum, it is understandable; he became a determined, principled man from his childhood experiences.
His Scottish-Irish father died before he was born and left his Irish mother to raise three boys by herself in the frontier days. This equated to the inheritance of fighting the British, as his grandfather had in Ireland, which Jackson displayed when he joined the American patriots at twelve. He continued his war-like nature as he became older. Nevertheless, his contrasting nature shows by his deep, humanist devotion to his wife, Rachael Jackson.
Jackson won his first run at the presidency with the electoral vote and the popular vote; however, he did not have the majority vote. Thus, when he discovered that he had lost the presidency to a conspiracy, he expanded the political rights of the common man by the promotion of suffrage to cover all white, male men. Currently, this suffrage looks limited; however, in those days, this was a dramatic expansion of the right to vote.
He was also a veteran of knowledge about the natural man, and his inner true light guided him. Jackson became a national hero and the seventh president of the United States of America. A few weeks after he won the election his wife, Rachael, died and left him to run the US by himself without the guidance of a gentler person by his side (Remini 169). Today, Jacksonian Democracy is a complex mixture of ideologies.
This Jacksonian philosophy comes from a pure sustenance for the common man. In the first days of his office, he pledged to rotate personnel in government offices, get rid of national debt (against Hamilton beliefs), balance tariffs, move the Indians to the west of the Mississippi River, get rid of the Bank of the US, and reform the Second Bank of the US.
During Jackson’s first term in office, as president, his first veto out of twelve was the Mayhill Road Bill, which would have enhanced the building of the west frontier and made the Northeast merchants happy (Remini 161).
The next item of the Jacksonian principals was that of national jurisdiction contrasting statehood authority. In the case Georgia vs. Cherokee Nation, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Nation for their right to stay in Georgia. At the time of this decision, the Supreme Court did not have the ‘supreme’ authority that it has today. Jackson, being the man that he was, entitled the state of Georgia their rights and said, “Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has rendered his opinion; now let him enforce it” (Remini 216) This is an archetypical Jacksonian declaration.
In the years of Jackson, he would sign over ninety Indian treaties, which the government now and then honored; the final Indian policy Jackson was involved in was the “Trail of Tears.” This was the “Removal Policy” in the end when thousands of Cherokee Indians died in the process of moving.
Before Jackson was president, he had been a ruthless warrior; and earlier in the history of the colonies, there had been numerous Indian tribes, which had vanished in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, some from disease, others at the hands of Anglo-Americans. Jackson himself lived through these times and witnessed these events. As well as, Jacksons adopted, Indian Creek, son had died at sixteen, of tuberculosis, prior to his wife’s death to the rise of Jackson’s presidency (Remini 169). In addition, with the Anglo hunger for land, the president’s Scottish-Irish instinct knew that the Anglo neighbors would kill the Indians if the Cherokees would have stayed in the Georgia areas (Wiletz 68).
One of Jackson pet peeves was his unshakable decisions concerning the Hamiltonian idea of debt. He believed that a few individuals should not monopolize the government; who, at the time, were wealthy landowners, the lone group of people with the right to vote and by organizations as the National Bank, which he fought to abolish.
He also issued the proclamation of the “Specie Circular,” and ‘hard’ money (gold-silver) could purchase government land. Jackson planned to abolish the National Bank, and he began to deposit money into state ‘pet banks’; therefore, it was the first time in federal government history that a surplus existed. Notwithstanding, Jackson single-handed and with tremendous opposition from powerful individuals reformed the way the United States Bank operated (Remini 163).
While there are many controversial issues about the policies of President Jackson, his ideologies and actions have had a profound effect on how the US government operates today. There are too many items to list to the Jacksonian principles,
Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one the government officials that has incorporated these ideologies. The courage of Jackson is comparable to that of this woman. The former first lady of the US during the William Clinton administration has been involved with politics in a unique way.
In the beginning of her tenure as First Lady, she was involved with the formulation of the ill-fated health plan under her husband’s, Bill Clinton, administration (Cowart). Although the plan was defeated in Congress, Ms. Clinton defended her position of the health plan with conviction in front of the American public as no other wife of a president had.
In addition, she stood by her husband, President Clinton, after a scandal with the “improper relationship” with Monica Lewinsky. This incident did not stop her tenacity similar to, “Old Hickory,” Jackson, after her husband’s term in office, she ran for the US Senate in the State of New York. Moreover, this was against Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City and a favorite among New Yorkers.
Even some of her constituents painted her as a “carpetbagger” because she was not indigenous to the state, nor did Ms. Clinton reside in New York prior to the elections (Nagourney). Ms. Clinton had the vigor to go head-to-head with Giuliani and to become the first former First Lady to win a seat in Congress.
It was barely eight months into her tenure when New York experienced the devastating attack on American soil when Al-Qaeda terrorists flew two commercial planes into the World Trade Center, in downtown New York, on September 11, 2001. Ms. Clinton moved swiftly to obtain funding for the recovery effort and made many other efforts to ensure that the city and the state managed to cope with the attack. This event might explain her support for the invasion of the Iraq and Afghanistan.
During her second term, Hillary Rodham Clinton vied for the Democratic ticket for the presidency of the US. Nevertheless, it was a close race with Barack Obama; the campaign was intense, and, at some points, the campaign threatened to take a racial turn, which both leading candidate strived to avoid. At the end of the campaign, Obama had garnered the the majority of support. Nevertheless, Ms. Clinton had run the most successful presidential campaign by an American woman in history.
Ms. Clinton continues to serve with similar courage and dignity, which describes Jacksonian style to a tee. It takes courage to take a stand and to defend your position regardless of the voices of the detractors.
Furthermore, it is easy to see why the Obama cabinet would choose Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Secretary of Defense. She has the dignity, the poise, and the courage to look someone in the eyes and know how to handle difficult circumstances. Clinton is able to asses a situation with a keen sense. She can judge the state of affairs from the perspective be it manifest destiny, be it good for the nation, be it good for humanity, or be it war. She is a woman on a mission. Clinton is a capable leader with fearless courage as Secretary of Defense, and with Jacksonian principals, she meets history boldly as it is waiting in the wings.
Works Cited
"American President: Andrew Jackson." Miller Center of Public Affairs. 2009. U of Virginia. 11 Apr. 2009
"Biography of Andrew Jackson." Welcome to the White House. 1999. US Gov. 18 Apr. 2009
Cowart, Dick. "Will Hillary help or hurt Bredesen?" AARP: BulletinToday. 10 Feb. 2009.
Tennessean. 11 Apr. 2009
D'Urso, Tony. "Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar: 11/12 Specie Circular." From Revolution to Reconstruction - an HTML Project (2003). 6 Mar. 2003. U of Groningen. 18 Apr. 2009
House Representatives. US Government. "Senators Clinton and Schumer,
Representatives Maloney and Nadler Welcome Approval of $50 Million for 9/11 Health.” Press release. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. 25 May 2007. US Gov. 11 Apr. 2009
Nagourney, Adam. "In a Kennedy's Legacy, Lessons and Pitfalls For Hillary Clinton; Carpetbagger Issue Has Echoes of '64, But Differences Could Prove Crucial - The New York Times." The New York Times. 10 Sept. 2000. 28 Apr. 2009
Remini, Robert Vincent. Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. 19 Apr. 2009
Wilentz, Sean. Andrew Jackson. Ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. New York: Times Books, 2005.
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