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The charismatic Ronald Wilson Reagan ( February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004), the 40th President of the United States has been rated as the best American President since World War Two and the second best in history after Abraham Lincoln and followed by George Washington according to the Harris Poll released today ahead of this year's Presidents' Day on February 21, 2012. Guess who is rated the worst President? George W. Bush! The following is the complete report of the poll. NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nation prepares to celebrate Presidents' Day, it is always interesting to see what people think about some of the past presidents. Looking at all the presidents since World War II, one-quarter of Americans (25%) say Ronald Reagan is the best president, one in five (19%) say Franklin Roosevelt while 15% say it is John Kennedy and 12% say Bill Clinton. The nine other presidents, including Barack Obama, are at 4% or less. Looking at the flip side, just over one-qua...

Senator Barack Obama received the most important endorsement of his presidential campaign from his archrival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she conceded the highly coveted presidential nomination of the United States Democratic Party to him on Saturday June 7, 2008. Then she called on her estimated 18 million voters and donors to support and vote for him in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election in November. “I endorse him and throw my full support behind him, and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," Senator Hillary Clinton said. Hillary Clinton said this was not the kind of finale she had hoped for when she began her presidential campaign in 2007, but she certainly loved the company of the mammoth crowd of her enthusiastic supporters and well-wishers who thronged the National Building Museum in Washington D.C, .to witness the suspension of her historic presidential campaign. She has proved that she is a formidable presidential ca...

13 Mar 2008 15:57 Africa/Lagos Presidential Campaigns Show Businesses How to Tap Social Networking and New Media Tactics: Deloitte NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 presidential campaign serves as the harbinger of change in marketing strategies and the use of new media, as well as understanding how social networking can be adapted for building, marketing and in some cases, defending a brand, according to a new paper from Deloitte Consulting LLP. While businesses may sometimes be ahead of politicians in using new media, the velocity of the presidential campaigns forces politicians into much more aggressive experimentation and adoption. "Businesses are well advised to keep a keen eye on effective and ineffective uses of new media by the campaigns, in particular as a response tool to attacks," said Deloitte Consulting's David Smith, a co-author of the paper, "New Media and the 2008 Campaign Season - Valuable Lessons for Business about being First, Fast ...

Fidel Castro, the Lion of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz retired as the President and Commander-in-Chief of Cuba on Monday February 18, 2008, after 49 years in power. Fidel Castro is the most lionized foreign leader in Africa and highly esteemed as one of the heroes of the liberation struggles in South African nations. Fidel Castro sent Cuban troops to Angola on November 4, 1975, to join the forces of the marxist MPLA-ruled government in the war against the racist South African-backed UNITA rebels. One of the survivors, Claude Grace Uushona can still remember how she survived the massacre in the refugee camp in Cassinga, in southern Angola and was rescued and brought to Cuba when she was only 16. "It was a camp for women and children refugees located 250 km from the border with Namibia. On May 4, 1978, South African forces bombed us with military helicopters and planes," she recalled. Cuban and Angolan troops helped the guerrilla freedom fighters of the Southwest African Pe...

The hypocrisy of the American news media has become more pronounced in the coverage of the American presidential campaign in 2008. Presidential candidates have been misquoted, their statements distorted and reported out of context for sensational headlines and to start controversies to perpetrate malicious campaigns and turn voters against the targets of their offensives and the Clintons have been at the receiving end. That is why David Runciman’s article “Vote Hypocrite” on the Boston Globe online edition of February 3, 2008, is a good analysis of the conflict of interests among the Democrats and Republicans in their power struggle for political supremacy. I have seen spurious endorsements of the leading presidential candidates by those who have personal grudges against their political rivals. Malice and prejudice are so evident that only an ignorant observer would be fooled. These dishonest and ill-conceived approval ratings have only exposed the rot in American Democracy. It is n...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963) Dear Caroline Kennedy, I have just read your white lies on "A President Like My Father" published by The New York Times on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Senator Barack Obama What a day to choose to tell lies to the ignorant and gullible majority of Americans and the rest of the world who do not know the history of America and the rest of the world during the tragic administration of your beloved father, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, whose administration ended abruptly with his assassination. JFK with little Caroline . Search the archives of The New York Times for the facts of history and the role your father played in the assassinations of the leaders of Iraq in 1963. To let the whole world know the truth, I will simply copy and paste the facts for the public knowledge. The Atrocities of JFK: Iraq In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Abdel Karim Kas...