List of broken election promises (United States)
- List of broken election promises (United States)
The following is a list of broken election promises (United States):
* United States presidential election, 1900 - Republican promises to end the Philippine-American War quickly
*Woodrow Wilson's promise to keep the United States out of World War I
*Herbert Hoover's 1928 pledge to end poverty
*Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 pledge to maintain balanced budgets and to decrease government spending by 25%
*Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 promise to keep the US out of World War II
*Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 promise to win the "war on poverty"
*Richard Nixon's 1968 promise to quickly resolve the Vietnam War
*George H.W. Bush's 1988 "" pledge
*George W. Bush's 2000 pledge that the military would not be used for nation building.
ee also
* Election promise
* Politics of the United States
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