1900

by | Oct 8, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

William McKinley, the most popular chief executive since Abraham Lincoln, is re-nominated with Theodore Roosevelt as vice president. The prosperity of the nation continues. One of the best Republican slogans is “four years more of the full dinner-pail.” J....

1898

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

After an explosion on the night of February 15th rips through the U.S. ship Maine, anchored in Havana Harbor, killing 267 officers and men, the newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst stir up anger in the U.S. and help to push it toward war with...

1897

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

William McKinley, after waging a “front porch” campaign, is the 25th president. The Republicans also win control of both houses of Congress. There will be unbroken Republican control of the presidency and both houses for 14 years.John Hay, one of the...

1893

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

William McKinley, aiming at the Republican nomination for the presidency, makes hundreds of speeches throughout the country in the congressional campaign. He comes to be known as “the advance agent of prosperity.”

1889

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the Singer Fortune, graduated from Yale University’s Sheffield Scientific School with a degree in engineering. He then entered the United States Army, which sent him to Manila and also to China.