Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
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By the 1960 presidential campaign, civil rights had emerged as a crucial issue. Just a few weeks before the election, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested while leading a protest in Atlanta, Georgia. John Kennedy phoned his wife, Coretta Scott King to express his concern, while a call from Robert Kennedy to the judge helped secure her husband's safe release. The Kennedys' personal intervention led to a public endorsement by Martin Luther King Sr., the influential father of the civil rights leader.
Across the nation, more than 70 percent of African Americans voted for Kennedy, and these votes provided the winning edge in several key states. When President Kennedy took office in January 1961, African Americans had high expectations for the new administration.
But Kennedy's narrow election victory and small working margin in Congress left him cautious. He was reluctant to lose southern support for legislation on many fronts by pushing too hard on civil rights legislation. Instead, he appointed unprecedented numbers of African Americans to high-level positions in the administration and strengthened the Civil Rights Commission. He spoke out in favor of school desegregation, praised a number of cities for integrating their schools, and put Vice President Lyndon Johnson in charge of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Attorney General Robert Kennedy turned his attention to voting rights, initiating five times the number of suits brought during the previous administration.
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According to the Wikipedia, Saladin "was the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty." He was a Sunni Muslim, "who led his military against the Crusader states in the Levant."
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Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover were the presidents during the 1920s. The demand and mantra of the 1920s was a "return to normalcy". The goal of this period was to stay out of world affairs as Americans felt slighted by the impact of World War I as well as return to the economic polices of the Gilded Age. Domestically, these presidents instituted immigrant restrictions, removal of Progressive Era economic regulations, and a laissze-faire approach to the economy and government. Foreign policy included refusal to accept the Treaty of Versailles and to join the League of Nations. All treaties that took place were in an effort to remove the US from alliances and threats of war.
