President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.

" Other top U. S. officials such as Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta made similar statements.

With the assistance of a family connection, Lewinsky got a job at the White House as an unpaid summer intern in the office of White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.

The current Secretary is Leon Panetta who assumed office July 1, 2011.

Participants include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, NSC Advisor Gen. James " Jim " Jones, Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) Dennis Blair, Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, White House Counsel Greg Craig, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

With colleagues Norman Mineta, Leon Panetta and Dick Gephardt, he was part of “ The Gang of Four ” on the House Budget Committee challenging the budget process with bipartisan budget ideas, and developing a high technology and alternative budget in 1982.

In 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced the creation of the Defense Clandestine Service.

* Leon Panetta, current United States Secretary of Defense, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( 2009 – 2011 ), former Congressman ( 1977 – 1993 ) and White House Chief of Staff ( 1994 – 1997 ).

: A score or more Italian Americans, beginning with Charles Bonaparte in the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and continuing with Leon Panetta and Janet Napolitano in the Barack Obama administration, had been appointed to Cabinet positions.

John Podesta and Leon Panetta had served in the capacity of White House Chief of Staff.

NIAF's 2009 public policy programs on Capitol Hill featured prominent Italians and Italian Americans as keynote speakers, including Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA, and Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Italy.

However, several top Democratic lawmakers in the House signed a letter on June 26, 2009, alleging that CIA Director Leon Panetta had asserted that the CIA misled Congress for a " number of years " spanning back to 2001, casting more clouds on the controversy.

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The United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited CRB in June of 2012, the first visit by an American official of cabinet rank to Vietnam since the Vietnam War.

White House chief of staff Leon Panetta remarked, " There have been too many areas where the President does not agree with her views.

“ The purpose of this is to enhance our ability to defend Japan ,” U. S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said at a news conference.

He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep. Leon Panetta resigned to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Farr was elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 through a special election when former Congressman Leon Panetta resigned to become President Clinton ’ s budget director.

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In 1982, as part of a memorial series of annual lectures at the University of Leeds commemorating his maternal uncle, Leon Mestel gave the 23rd Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture, titled Astronomy: A Mirror to Physics.

* United Kingdom: Leon Taylor, Peter Waterfield, Jason Statham, Tom Daley, Brian Phelps

De Leon was an early leader of the first United States socialist political party, the Socialist Labor Party of America.

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* Leon, West Virginia, United States

In United States v. Leon,, the Supreme Court, applying the " good faith " rule, ruled that evidence seized by officers relying in good faith on a warrant was still admissible, even though the warrant was later found to be defective.

* United States v. Leon ( 1984 )

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

* February 24 – Leon Constantine, British Leeds United footballer

Dzerzhinsky died of heart failure on 20 July 1926 in Moscow, immediately after a two-hour long speech to the Bolshevik Central Committee during which, visibly quite ill, he violently denounced the United Opposition directed by Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev.

* March 27 – Juan Ponce de Leon becomes the first European definitely known to sight what is now the territory of the United States ( specifically Florida ), mistaking it for another island.

Judge Richard J. Leon of United States District Court in Washington, D. C., approved the plea agreement and settlement, calling it a " just resolution.

Jaworski is also the grandson of Leon Jaworski, United States Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s.

Membership in the school is not generally extended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, wrote compositions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

The first sedimentation layer in Leon County is the Oligocene Suwannee Limestone in the southeastern part of the county as stated by the United States Geological Survey and Florida Geological Survey.

Symbolism in painting was even more widespread geographically than symbolism in poetry, affecting Mikhail Vrubel, Nicholas Roerich, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Martiros Saryan, Mikhail Nesterov, Leon Bakst, Elena Gorokhova in Russia, as well as Frida Kahlo in Mexico, Elihu Vedder, Remedios Varo, Morris Graves and David Chetlahe Paladin in the United States.

* Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, Hilton Als, United States Rep. John Lewis ( American politician ) | John Lewis and historian Leon F. Litwack.

* United Kingdom: Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Patrick Heron, John Hoyland, Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, John Walker

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

United States President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, a registered Republican who, after his arrest, claimed he had been influenced by the writings of Emma Goldman and others.

Ponce de Leon is a town in Holmes County, Florida, United States.

Woodville is a census-designated place in Leon County, Florida, United States.

De Leon Springs is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Volusia County, Florida, United States.