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<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT</pattern>
<template>A type of system in place to govern a country, state, or community.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS GREENPEACE</pattern>
<template>Global organization promoting environmental activism.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT</pattern>
<template><srai>WHAT IS GOVERNMENT </srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS CAPITALISM</pattern>
<template>The economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, as land, factories, railroads, etc., are privately 
owned by individuals or companies instead of by the government.</template></category>
	<category><pattern>IS CAPITALISM *</pattern>
	<template><srai>WHAT IS CAPITALISM</srai></template></category>
	
<category><pattern>WHAT IS SOCIALISM</pattern>
<template>The economic system in which the government owns and operates the means of production and distribution rather than by private individuals or 
companies.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS GOVERNMENT</pattern>
<template>An established system of political administration by which a nation, state, district, etc. is governed.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS COMMUNISM</pattern>
<template>A socio-political movement advocating the common ownership of the means of production and the resolution of class conflict by bringing about 
a classless society. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS IMPEACHED</pattern>
<template>When a person's honor or reputation has been challenged or discredited.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT</pattern>
<template>Charge against a public official of improper conduct.<think><set name="it"><set name="topic">IMPEACHMENT</set></set></think></template></category>

<category><pattern>I DO NOT LIKE GUNS</pattern>
<template>That is perfectly understandable.</template></category>

<category><pattern>DO YOU LIKE GUNS</pattern>
<template>Not especially. I'm a lover, not a fighter. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO WAS THE FIRST IMPEACHED PRESIDENT *</pattern>
<template>Andrew Jackson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO WAS THE FIRST IMPEACHED *</pattern>
<template>Andrew Jackson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE GOVERNOR OF *</pattern>
<template>That changes every few years.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA</pattern>
<template>Jerry Brown.</template></category>

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<category><pattern>WHO * THE FIRST PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>George Washington.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * GEORGE WASHINGTON</pattern>
<template>The first President of the United States. He served from 1789 – 1797 and is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE SECOND PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>John Adams.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JOHN ADAMS</pattern>
<template>The second President of the United States. He served from 1797 – 1801 and was one of the Founding Fathers. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRD PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Thomas Jefferson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THOMAS JEFFERSON</pattern>
<template>The 3rd President of the United States, who served from 1801-1809.  He was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the 
Declaration of Independence. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FOURTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>James Madison.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JAMES MADISON</pattern>
<template>The fourth president of the United States, who served from 1809-1817. He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental 
in the drafting of the United States Constitution></template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FIFTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>James Monroe.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JAMES MONROE</pattern>
<template>The fifth president of the United States, who served from 1817-1825. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United 
States.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE SIXTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>John Quincy Adams.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JOHN QUINCY ADAMS</pattern>
<template>The sixth president of the United States, who served from 1825-1829. He served as American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional 
representative.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE SEVENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Andrew Jackson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ANDREW JACKSON</pattern>
<template>The seventh president of the United States, who served from 1829-1837. His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE EIGHTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Martin van Buren.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * MARTIN VAN BUREN</pattern>
<template>The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837-1841. Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and 
the tenth Secretary of State (1829–1831), both under Andrew Jackson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE NINTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>William Henry Harrison.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON</pattern>
<template>The ninth president of the United States, who served for one month in 1841. He was the first president to die in office, 23 days after he 
was inaugurated.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>John Tyler.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JOHN TYLER</pattern>
<template>The tenth president of the United States, who served from 1841-1845. He became the first to succeed to the office of President on the death 
of the incumbent.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE ELEVENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>James Knox Polk.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JAMES KNOX POLK</pattern>
<template>The eleventh president of the United States, who served from 1845-1849. Polk was the surprise (dark horse) candidate for president in 1844, 
defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.</template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWELFTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Zachary Taylor.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ZACHARY TAYLOR</pattern>
<template>The twelfth president of the United States, who served from 1849-1850. His status as a national hero won him election to the White House 
despite his vague political beliefs.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Millard Fillmore.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * MILLARD FILLMORE</pattern>
<template>The thirteenth president of the United States, who served from 1850-1853. He was the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of 
president.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Franklin Pierce.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * FRANKLIN PIERCE</pattern>
<template>The fourteenth president of the United States, who served from 1853-1857. Pierce was a Democrat and served in the U.S. House of 
Representatives and the Senate.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FIFTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>James Buchanan.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JAMES BUCHANAN</pattern>
<template>The fifteenth president of the United States, who served from 1857-1861.  He is the only president from Pennsylvania and the only president 
who remained a lifelong bachelor.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Abraham Lincoln.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ABRAHAM LINCOLN</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Lincoln</set></formal> was the sixteenth President of the United States. He served during the American Civil War, 
from 1861 until he was assassinated in April 1865.<br/> <srai>XFIND ABRAHAM LINCOLN</srai><think><set name="topic">Abraham Lincoln</set></think></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * LINCOLN</pattern>
<template><random>      <li>The sixteenth President of the USA</li> <li>president of the US during the Civil War. Author of the Gettysburg address.  
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.</li>      <li>       <formal><set name="he">Lincoln</set></formal> was president of the US during the Civil War. 
Author of the Gettysburg address. Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.</li>     </random></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE SEVENTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Andrew Johnson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ANDREW JOHNSON</pattern>
<template>The seventeenth president of the United States, who served from 1865-1869. Johnson became president as Abraham Lincoln's vice president at 
the time of Lincoln's assassination.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Ulysses S. Grant.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ULYSSES GRANT</pattern>
<template>The eighteenth president of the United States, who served from 1869-1877. Grant was the first president to establish Civil Service reform, 
creating a two-year federally funded Civil Service Commission in 1871.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE NINTEENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Rutherford B. Hayes.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * RUTHERFORD HAYES</pattern>
<template>The ninteenth president of the United States, who served from 1877-1881. Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious and 
confused elections in national history.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTIETH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>James A. Garfield.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JAMES GARFIELD</pattern>
<template>The twentieth president of the United States, who served from March 1881-September 1881. Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days as a 
result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881.</template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY FIRST PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Chester A. Arthur.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * CHESTER ARTHUR</pattern>
<template>The twenty first president of the United States, who served from 1881-1885. He succeeded James Garfield upon the latter's assassination.</template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY SECOND PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Grover Cleveland.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * GROVER CLEVELAND</pattern>
<template>The twenty second and twenty fourth president of the United States, who served from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. He is the only president to 
serve two non-consecutive terms.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY THIRD PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Benjamin Harrison.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * BENJAMIN HARRISON</pattern>
<template>The twenty third president of the United States, who served from 1889-1893. He was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY FOURTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Grover Cleveland.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY FIFTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>William McKinley.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * WILLIAM MCKINLEY</pattern>
<template>The twenty fifth president of the United States, who served from 1897-1901. He was assassinated in September 1901.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY SIXTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Theodore Roosevelt.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THEODORE ROOSEVELT</pattern>
<template>The twenty sixth president of the United States, who served from 1901-1909. Roosevelt was also the first of only three sitting presidents 
to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Teddy bear is named for him, despite his contempt for being called "Teddy".</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY SEVENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>William Howard Taft.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT</pattern>
<template>The twenty seventh president of the United States, who served from 1909-1913. Before becoming President, Taft, a Republican, was appointed 
to serve on the Superior Court of Cincinnati in 1887</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY EIGHTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Woodrow Wilson.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * WOODROW WILSON</pattern>
<template>The twenty eighth president of the United States, who served from 1913-1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of 
Princeton University from 1902 to 1910.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE TWENTY NINTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Warren G. Harding.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * WARREN HARDING</pattern>
<template>The twenty ninth president of the United States, who served from 1921-1923. Harding was the compromise candidate in the 1920 election, when 
he promised the nation a return to "normalcy".</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTIETH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Calvin Coolidge.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * CALVIN COOLIDGE</pattern>
<template>The thirtieth president of the United States, who served from 1923-1929. Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the 
scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY FIRST PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Herbert Hoover.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * HERBERT HOOVER</pattern>
<template>The thirty first president of the United States, who served from 1929-1933. Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining 
engineer.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY SECOND PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Franklin D. Roosevelt.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT</pattern>
<template>The 32nd President of the United States. He served 12 years from 1933 -1945 and was the only president to ever be elected four times.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY THIRD PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Harry S. Truman.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * HARRY TRUMAN</pattern>
<template>The thirty third president of the United States, who served from 1945-1953. Under Truman, the U.S. successfully concluded World War II.</template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY FOURTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Dwight D. Eisenhower.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * DWIGHT EISENHOWER.</pattern>
<template>The thirty fourth president of the United States, who served from 1953-1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during 
World War II.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY FIFTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>John F. Kennedy.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JOHN KENNEDY</pattern>
<template><formal>      <set name="he">       <set name="topic">John Kennedy</set>      </set>     </formal> was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS JOHN F KENNEDY</pattern>
<template><formal>      <set name="he">       <set name="topic">John F Kennedy</set>      </set>     </formal> was President of the United States from 
1961-1963, when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY SIXTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Lyndon B. Johnson</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * LYNDON JOHNSON</pattern>
<template>The thirty sixth president of the United States, who served from 1963-1969. He is one of only four people who served in all four elected 
federal offices of the United States.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY SEVENTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Richard M. Nixon.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * RICHARD NIXON</pattern>
<template>He was the 37th President of the United States. He served from 1969 – 1974 and was the only president to resign from office. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY EIGHTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Gerald Ford.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * GERALD FORD</pattern>
<template>The thirty eighth president of the United States, who served from 1974-1977. As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move 
toward détente in the Cold War.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE THIRTY NINTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Jimmy Carter.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JIMMY CARTER</pattern>
<template>The thirty ninth president of the United States, who served from 1977-1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. 
President to have received the Prize after leaving office.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FORTIETH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Ronald Reagan.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * RONALD REAGON</pattern>
<template>The fortieth president of the United States, who served from 1981-1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of 
California (1967–1975), and was a radio, film and television actor.</template></category> 

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FORTY FIRST PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>George H.W. Bush.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * REAGAN</pattern>
<template>The 40th President of the United States. He served from 1981 – 1989 and was the Governor of California and an actor prior to his 
presidency.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FORTY SECOND PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Bill Clinton.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * CLINTON</pattern>
<template>The 42nd President of the United States, who served from 1993-2001.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FORTY THIRD PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>George W. Bush.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * GEORGE W BUSH</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Bush</set></formal>was the 43rd President of the United States. He served from 2001-2008 and is the son of the the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush.</template></category>

<category><pattern>BUSH</pattern>
<template><srai>who is george bush</srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>BUSH *</pattern>
<template><srai>GEORGE BUSH <star/> </srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE W BUSH</pattern>
<template>He was president of the United States.</template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE W *</pattern>
<template>Do you think he is a good president?</template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE BUSH IS *</pattern>
<template>But he is not the only one.</template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE BUSH *</pattern>
<template>I knew he was president, but I never knew he <person/>.</template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE *</pattern>
<template>That George is some hero.</template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE W BUSH *</pattern>
<template><srai>george bush <star /></srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>GEORGE BUSH</pattern>
<template><srai>who is george bush</srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS GEORGE BUSH JR</pattern>
<template><srai>WHO IS GEORGE W BUSH</srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS GEORGE BUSH</pattern>
<template><random><li><formal><set name="he">George Bush</set></formal> was the 43rd President of the United States.</li><li><formal><set name="he"> 
George Bush</set></formal> was a former President of the United States.</li></random></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE FORTY FOURTH PRESIDENT</pattern>
<template>Barack Obama.</template></category>
	<category><pattern>WHO IS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT</pattern>
	<template><srai>WHO <star /> THE FORTY FOURTH PRESIDENT</srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>* OBAMA_</pattern>
<template>He is the 44th President of the United States.</template></category>	

<category><pattern>WHO * BARACK OBAMA</pattern>
<template>The forty fourth president of the United States, who served from 2009-current.  He is the first African American to hold the office.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHAT IS GEORGE W BUSH</pattern>
<template><srai>who is george w bush</srai></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF USA</pattern>
<template><bot name="president"/>.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF USA *</pattern>
<template><bot name="president"/>.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA</pattern>
<template><bot name="president"/>.</template></category>

<!--VICE PRESIDENTS-->

<category><pattern>WHO IS * CHENEY</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he"><star/> CHENEY</set></formal> was vice President of the U.S.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * DAN QUAYLE</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Dan Quayle</set></formal> used to be vice-president.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * AL GORE</pattern>
<template><random><li><formal><set name="he">Gore</set></formal> was vice-president under Bill Clinton.</li><li>A former vice-president and congressman 
who helped promote public policies that led to the creation of the internet.</li></random></template></category>

<!--MISC-->

<category><pattern>WHO * MONICA LEWINSKY</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="she">Monica</set></formal> was a White House staff member with whom President Bill Clinton admitted to having an 
inappropriate relationship.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * BILL BRADLEY</pattern>
<template><random>      <li>Princeton alumni, Rhodes scholor, former Boston Celtic and US senator from Mass.</li>      <li>Defeated Presidential 
candidate.</li>     </random></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * CHELSEA CLINTON</pattern>
<template>Daughter of former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * MRS WASHINGTON</pattern>
<template>Martha Washington was the wife of George Washington, first President of the United States. </template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * HILARY CLINTON</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="she">Hillary</set></formal> Was the 67th Secretary of State from 2009 – 2013, former Senator from New York, and is married 
to former President Bill Clinton.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JEFFERSON DAVIS</pattern>
<template><random>      <li>A Civil War Confederate leader.</li>      <li>President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.</li>     </random></template></category>

<!--WORLD-->

<category><pattern>WHO * VLADIMIR PUTIN</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Putin</set></formal>is President of Russia.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS WINSTON CHURCHILL</pattern>
<template>Prime Minister of the U.K. during World War II.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF CANADA</pattern>
<template>Canada has a Prime Minister.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * JACQUES CHIRAC</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Jacques</set></formal> was the president of France from 1995-2007.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * PRESIDENT OF CUBA</pattern>
<template>Raul Castro.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * PRESIDENT OF ITALY</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Georgio Napolitano</set></formal> is Goergio Napolitano.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA</pattern>
<template>Vladimir Putin.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA</pattern>
<template>Xi Jinping is the current leader of China.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * NELSON MANDELA</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Mandela</set></formal> was the first black president of South Africa. He spent many years as a political prisoner.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * FIDEL CASTRO</pattern>
<template><random>      <li>Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 - 1976 and President from 1976 - 2008.</li>      <li>A Cuban communist and revolutionary.</li>     </random></template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * ANWAR SADAT</pattern>
<template><formal><set name="he">Sadat</set></formal> was President of Egypt.</template></category>

<category><pattern>WHO * GERRY ADAMS</pattern>
<template>He is the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, and a member of the lower house of the Irish 
Parliament, Dail Eireann.</template></category>

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