U.S. Presidents1953 - present

Pop Culture:Politics of Media LiteracyGHUM 1180

Professor Reeves Medaglia-Miller, Ph.D.

DwightEisenhower34th president 1953-1961 CIA overthrow of Iran Suez Crisis Formosa Revolution Coined ‘Military

Industrial Complex’ Wiki link

John Kennedy

35th president 1961-1963 Cuban missile

crisis Pledged to

dismantle CIA Anti-military Assassination

victim Wiki link

LyndonJohnson36th president 1963-1969 Escalated

Vietnam War The Great

Society Wiki link

RichardNixon

37th president 1969-1974 Escalated

Vietnam war Focus of

Watergate Scandal

Wiki link

Gerald Ford

38th president 1974-1977 Member of Warren

Commission Ended Vietnam

involvement Pardoned Richard

Nixon Wiki link

Jimmy Carter39th president 1977-1981 2002 Nobel

Peace Prize Blamed for failed

operation to release embassy hostages in Iran

Wiki link

Ronald Reagan40th president 1981-1989 Iran-Contra

scandal Secret Afghan war Employed Bin

Laden Began ‘Star Wars’ Wiki link

George H.W. Bush41st president 1989-1993 Pardoned

Ronald Reagan Gulf War & The

Highway of Death

The Bush Doctrine

Wiki link

Bill Clinton42nd president 1993-2001 NAFTA

agreement Bombing:

Somalia, Bosnia (Serbia), Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo, Iraq

Wiki link

George Bush43rd president 2001-2009 Office of Special

Plans War on Terror Afghan War Iraq War Patriot Act Hurricane Katrina Wiki link

BarackObama44th president 2009-present 2009 Nobel Peace

Prize Escalated Afghan

War Bombed Libya Has used drones to

conduct assassinations

Wiki link