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John Dean is an American Republican who served as White House Counsel during the time of President Richard Nixon. He was seated in the position from July 1970 to April 1973. He has been involved in the Watergate Scandal and even to the actions taken that have led to the event. He was also nicknamed as the “Master Manipulator of the Cover-Up” and pleaded guilty to a single felony count. His prison time was shortened because he chose to become the key witness for the prosecution. He served his four months of jail time at Fort...

Richard Nixon is the 37th president of the United States of America. He assumed office on January 20, 1969, but resigned on August 9, 1974. Before taking the highest position in the government of America, he was the 36th vice president of the United States, a senator from California, and a member of the House of Representatives from California’s 12th District. On his younger years, he made his military service as a member of the United States Navy Reserve. He held the rank of a commander in the Second World War and was awarded the...

Kamala Harris is the United States Junior Senator for the state of California. She has been in the position since January 3, 2017. Before that, she served the public as the 32nd Attorney General of the same state from January 2011 and the District Attorney of San Francisco from January 2004 to 2011. She stands under the Democrat Party of the United States of America. She ran in the November 2016 U.S. Senate election against Loretta Sanchez. They competed for the vote of the people to replace Barbara Boxer. Kamala is the first Indian American...

Paul Ryan is the incumbent Speaker of the House of the United States of America, which makes him the 54th person to be appointed to the position. He is a member of the Republican Party and was the nominee for the Vice Presidential position in tandem to 2012 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. He was the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 3, 2015 to October 29, 2015. Prior to that, he was the Chairman of the House Budget Committee from January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2015, and the Member of the United States of Representatives...

The United States House of Representatives Majority Whip is currently led by Steve Scalise. He is also Louisiana’s first congressional district’s incumbent representative. He has been serving the position since his election to office in 2008. Before that, he was the representative of Louisiana’s 82nd district from January 1996 to January 2008. Steve who is a member of the Republican Party is supportive of President Trump’s actions and leadership. In another aspect, he was shot while in a congressional baseball practice...

Terry McAuliffe is the incumbent governor of Virginia. He was a former businessman before he entered politics and became the 72nd governor of the previously mentioned state. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was the chairman from 2001 to 2005. He ran in the gubernatorial elections in 2009 but failed to win in the nominations for Democratic Party representative. His fate changed in 2013 when he won over Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis. He has his own memoir entitled What a Party! My Life Among Democrats:...

Theresa May is the incumbent prime minister of the United Kingdom. She is a British politician and the Leader of the Conservative Party since July 2016. She has been active in politics since her younger years and has assumed office in May 1997 as Member of Parliament for Maidenhead. In 2010 she has been appointed as Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities. She remained in the position until 2012. She ran and won in the July 2016 leadership election unopposed. This brought her to the Prime Minister position that she was appointed...

President Emmanuel Macron is the youngest president and head of state in French history since the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. He is also the first president to come from an age that is after the establishment of the Fifth Republic. Aside from that, he is also the in-office co-prince of Andorra, a joint leadership with Spain for the Pyrenees mountains in both countries. Prior to his involvement in politics, he was a banker and a senior civil servant. He was a deputy secretary-general in 2012 and was appointed as the Minister of Economy,...

Jon Ossoff is the Democratic nominee for a seat in the U.S. Congress as Georgia’s 6th congressional district’s representative. He ran opposite to the Republican Party’s Karen Handel in the 2017 special elections held on June 20, 2017. The special elections were conducted after Tom Price, the initial representative, was appointed to be the secretary of Health and Human Services. He lost the elections. Prior to that, he was a documentary filmmaker and a political aide. He got engaged recently to his longtime girlfriend...

Newt Gingrich is an American Republican politician who was the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was also a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination but stayed at the bottom of the race with Mitt Romney winning the preliminaries. Before his stint as a politician, he was a professor of history and geography at the University of West Georgia. His win in the U.S. House of Representatives was the first in all of Georgia’s 6th congressional district’s history to have a Republican...

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