QUESTIONS:
1. The ouster of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and occupation of Haiti by U.S. Marines dominated world headlines last week. When the United States first sent Marines to occupy Haiti in 1915, what Wilson Administration official oversaw the occupation and actually wrote the new Haitian Constitution?
2. Haiti has had over 50 governments since the U.S. occupying force left Port Au Prince in 1934. Who was the longest-serving president of Haiti?
3. What three prominent Americans negotiated the return of Aristide to power in 1994, after he had been first ousted from the presidency of Haiti?
4. President Bush has so far put two judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals by recess appointment, thus bypassing the Senate. Who was the last justice of the Supreme Court to be named by recess appointment?
5. Who was the last chief justice to be appointed by recess appointment?
ANSWERS:
1. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, president from 1957 until his death in 1971.
3. Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sen. Sam Nunn (D.-Ga.), and former President Jimmy Carter.
4. Thurgood Marshall, named by President Johnson by recess appointment in 1967 and later confirmed by the Senate.
5. Earl Warren, named by President Eisenhower by recess appointment in 1953 and later confirmed by the Senate.
