biography of john ashcroft
John Ashcroft, President Bush's nominee for the position of Attorney General, was born on the wonderful spring day of May 9th, 1949. He grew up in the town of Springfield Missouri in an extremely religious family. His father was a Pentecostal preacher and enforced strict house rules, including punishing his children for dancing. Ashcroft attended Yale University, graduated with honors, and went on to the University of Chicago law school. While there, he me his wife, Janet. John fathered three children, and has one grandchild. He has also "fathered" three books. Two of these were college textbooks co-authored by his wife, and the other one, entitled "Lessons from a father to his son," is about the many lessons that Ashcroft learned from his father. Before entering into the political world, John Ashcroft taught business law at Southwest Missouri State University, a school in his hometown. He soon got totally enveloped in the political world, taking on positions such as the Governor of Missouri, Chairman of the National Governors Association, and Missouri Auditor (just to name a few). The one that probably caught the eye of the man he was appointed by was the position that he held as the Missouri Attorney General in 1977. Also, A
Also, Ashcroft was opposed to the desegregation of the Saint Louis and Kansas City school systems. His reason for opposing this act was that it would be too much of a financial burden on the state. This said after all of the 22 school districts agreed to the matter. "You'd think a state leader like Mr. Ashcroft would recognize that and support it as an act of racial reconciliation,"said Mr. William L. Taylor, who represented the NAACP and a class of black school children in the case. Further, this "financial burden" that was spoken about by Ashcroft was also greatly exaggerated in size, by some 150%. anticipate the assistant campaign manager, Tom Deuschle, coming forward with the fact that he had also been on the public payroll when working for Ashcroft. Ashcroft also denied knowing about the racist and discriminatory policies (including the ban on interracial relationships, the battering of the Catholic church as nothing more than a "cult" and the pope as "the Antichrist.") of Bob Jones University at the time of receiving an honorary degree and giving of a commencement speech. This claim was made by him while he was the attorney general who, by definition of his job, should have been reading over the supreme court decision regarding the highly publicized case regarding the denying of the university tax exempt status on the count of their discriminatory views. Also, Ashcroft denied that he actually wrote out the commencement speech, claiming that it was totally "extemporaneous," which is highly unusual for a commencement speech at a university, especially at one that is ! Two of Ashcroft's biggest focuses are on protecting social security and economic opportunity (or, in other words, relief from what is declared by him as excessive taxation). There is no question as to whether or not he will be able to competently accomplish those tasks involving the economics of the United States, because, as his record shows, he is an economic whiz. Why, then, is there so much controversy surroundi
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