The government represented by president Hoover in the fall of 1929, responded to the Great Depression; wide spreading unemployment during the 1930s and exacerbating an already difficult situation. The government spent millions of dollars on various relief programs. Most, however, were ineffective. Dole rations, for example, were heavily policed and much too small to live on; land settlement also ended in failure. At the same time the government increased relief spending, it also contributed to the crisis by laying off employees and making cuts to health care, education, and other social programs.
In 1949, President Harry S. Truman<span> was the first to deliver his inaugural address to a televised audience; Kennedy would be the first to do so on color television in 1961. In 1997, </span>Bill Clinton's<span> second inauguration was the first to be streamed live over the Internet.</span>
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The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it "(3) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization <span>(NATO)" which contained the Soviets. </span>
Louis XIV<span> formally revoked the Edict of Nantes and deprived the </span>French Protestants<span> of all religious and civil liberties. Within a few years, more than 400,000 persecuted </span>Huguenots<span> emigrated—to England, Prussia, Holland, and America—depriving France of its most industrious commercial class.</span>
