Tips: 1  Accept information only if your instincts assure you it is accurate. 2  Keep a notebook handy to write down your questions and your pendulum's response. 3  Each pendulum may have a different response.  Make sure that the pendulums have been cleared of any negative energies before and after each use.
Defiantly President Nixon proclaimed, âPeople have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, Iâm not a crook.â A few months later he would become the first and only president to resign from office. Not everyone believed Nixonâs declaration.
Charles Guiteau shouted after shooting Garfield, I am a Stalwart .... Arthur is president!. Guiteau was hanged, and Arthur, who was Garfield's vice president, ascended to the presidency. But horrified by the assassination, Arthur abandoned his support for the spoils system and championed reform. The result was the Pendleton Act of 1883, which established the principle that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit, not patronage, creating the Civil Service Commission to implement merit exams and making it illegal to fire, demote, or harass civil servants for political reasons.