List of broken election promises (United States)
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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 "Read my lips: No new taxes" pledge
- Bill Clinton's 1992 promise of a middle class tax cut.
- George W. Bush's 2000 pledge that the military would not be used for nation building.
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