<span>Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s farewell address to Congress on April 19, 1951. MacArthur was invited to speak to a Joint Session of Congress after he was fired by President Harry Truman for having made critical statements about Truman’s policies as it related to the Korean War. MacArthur spoke eloquently in his speech about the nobility of the American Soldier, and closed with his famous statement, “Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away.” This speech is a masterpiece of public speaking, whatever you think of Truman’s decision to fire MacArthur.</span>
In this video segment, from the PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln<span>, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and historian David Blight examine President Abraham Lincoln’s mixed motivations for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. They conclude that while Lincoln ultimately recognized the moral righteousness freeing the slaves, his first and primary concern was strategic: it was the best way to rally the North and strike at the heart of the South’s economy. Gates and Blight then join a roundtable discussion of Lincoln scholars debating the legal authority of the Proclamation and its special meaning for African Americans.</span>
Answer:
"the attempts of the proletariat to rise above this abasement"
A) True, he won 41.4%
B) True, won 99 out of 261, over John Quincy Adams with 84.
C) True, John Quincy Adams did win the election of 1824, even if he did not win either the electoral vote or popular vote. Fun!
D) True, he was named secretary of state
E) Martin Van Buren was a vice presidential candidate not a presidential candidate.
Answer:
Groundwater.
Explanation:
Becasue it's underground and not on the surface.
