Famous and Forgotten

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This paper examines the history of the American Presidency and attempts to determine the factors that make a president considered successful in his term or a complete failure. It uses examples from history and by comparing these men and their presidencies, illustrates how much can be learned about presidential success and failure. It discusses how success comes to Presidents who use rhetoric effectively, have the ability to change and be pragmatic and expand presidential power and how successful Presidents also come during times of crisis and often at the destruction of an old political regime. In conclusion, it shows that what determines the success of ones presidency is up to many different factors that include the president's personality type, political powers of the time and current events.

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"John Quincy Adams seemed doomed from the start. The son of John Adams, John Quincy was forever subjected to unfavorable comparisons. In the election if 1825, he was elected by a coalition in congress, although Andrew Jackson carried the popular vote. The people where sick with the current federalist regime and wanted a change from the patrician government that existed. Adams was a symbol of this old regime, and was unpopular with the common people. Adam's is best described as a President of disjunction, leading a crumbling regime ripe for reconstruction. Although Adams tried to change the current regime to save it, he was doomed the day he was elected."

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