Amid Crises, Trump To Give Sequel To 'I Alone Can Fix It' Convention Pledge

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Amid Crises, Trump To Give Sequel To 'I Alone Can Fix It' Convention Pledge

In 2016, as an upstart outsider, Donald Trump vowed, "I alone can fix it." On Thursday night, he gives his sequel after twin crises of the coronavirus and racial injustice have exploded on his watch.

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Born on March 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, George Washington Collins graduated from Waller High School and immediately joined the United States Army in 1943 at the age of 18. He rose to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in 1946. Collins attended the Central Y.M.C.A. College in

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Booker T. Washington

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Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)

Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841 in Prince Edward County, Virginia but was raised in Missouri. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, Bruce fled to Kansas, becoming a free man before Lincoln’s Emancipation

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Gantt, Harvey Bernard (1943- )

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1999

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

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1979

Edward W. Brooke

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1965

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1895

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1895

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1894

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(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

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Republican National Convention, meeting in

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