In August 1939 Leó Szilárd had prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb.

* Albert Shanker ( President of UFT and AFT teachers ' unions )

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then known as Albert Bongo ) were elected President and Vice President, with the BDG winning all 47 seats in the National Assembly.

Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

He enjoyed good relationships with union leaders like Albert Monk, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Jim Healy, leader of the radical Waterside Workers Federation and he gained a reputation for tolerance, restraint and a willingness to compromise, although his controversial decision to use troops to take control of cargo facilities during a waterside dispute in Bowen, Queensland in September 1953 provoked bitter criticism.

This discovery prompted the letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of the possibility that Nazi Germany might be attempting to build an atomic bomb.

It was on March 14, 1914 that Albert L. Hopkins, a young New Yorker trained in engineering, succeeded Post as President of the company.

President Albert Murphree

At the suggestion of President Albert E. Murphree, Bert C. Riley, Dean of General Extension, brought together a group of student leaders to form an organization which would recognize leadership and promote service to the University.

For this concept of an Advisory Board, ancillary to the Board of Trustees, we are indebted to the late President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell, a master of the subject of the structure of cultural institutions and their administration.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

President Kennedy speaks at Rice University ( 17 min, 47 sec )

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

* Arthur Bourns, President of McMaster University

* Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University

* M. Elizabeth Cannon, University of Calgary's President & Vice-Chancellor

Clinton ran for President of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

University President Lee C. Bollinger tried to assuage the controversy by letting Ahmadenijad speak, but with a negative introduction ( given personally by Bollinger ).

After the debate, the President of the University, Lee C. Bollinger, stated that he did not favor reinstating Columbia's ROTC program, because of the military's anti-gay policies.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

The Christmas ceremony dates to a period prior to the American Revolutionary War, but lapsed before being revived by University President Nicholas Murray Butler in the early 20th century.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

* Robert R. Davila ( 1965 ), President of Gallaudet University and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired

After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman, then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.

In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, a premier private university in New York.

His successor is Mr. John Anderson Fry, formerly the president of Franklin & Marshall College and the Executive Vice President of University of Pennsylvania.

* 1947 – Richard L. McCormick, President of Rutgers University

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

In his time at university he also served as Chair of the Glasgow University Labour Club and President of the Glasgow University Union.

John Armstrong, who was also a native of New York, began working at the Oxford University Press at a young age and eventually reached the position of Vice President of the American branch.

* 1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University ( d. 1737 )

The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

About a month later, David Dombrowski resigned as President and General Manager of the Florida Marlins and accepted the position as President of the Detroit Tigers.

Members of the 2003 Florida Marlins championship team with George W. Bush | President Bush after their win.

Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

President Anastasio Somoza Debayle owned the largest slaughterhouse in Nicaragua, as well as six meat-packing plants in Miami, Florida.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U. S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors " I am not a crook.

When Bernard's brother, Adam Gimbel, became President of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Bernard's sudden passing, the company took on national aspirations, opening its very first branch store that year in the city of Palm Beach, Florida, as a seasonal resort store, followed by a second resort store in Southampton, New York, in 1928.

* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

** Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U. S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors " I am not a crook.

In the 2006 election, the Latin American vote aided tremendously in the election of Florida Senator Mel Martinez, although in the 2004 presidential election, about 44 % of Latin Americans voted for Republican President George W. Bush.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

Confusion over this issue lasted until April 26, 1865, when Johnston, ignoring instructions from President Davis, agreed to purely military terms and formally surrendered his army and all the Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, in what was the largest single capitulation of the war.

In May 1830, Jackson discovered that Calhoun had asked President Monroe to censure then-General Jackson for his invasion of Spanish Florida in 1818.

Glenn is honored by President Kennedy at temporary Manned Spacecraft Center facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, three days after his flight.

The 2000 case of Bush v. Gore, in which a majority of the Supreme Court, including some appointees of President George H. W. Bush, overruled challenges to the election of the George W. Bush then pending in the Florida Supreme Court, whose members had all been appointed by Democratic governors, is seen by many as reinforcing the need for judicial independence, both with regard to the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court.

In 2009, President Bernie Machen and the University of Florida Board of Trustees announced a major policy transition for the university.

A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States acquired the colony of Florida from Spain ; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.

President Grover Cleveland attended the Sub-Tropical Exposition in the city on February 22, 1888 during his trip to Florida.

On his way to Florida, Clarke stopped in to see his friend Frederick C. Durant ( President, International Astronautical Federation, 1953 – 1956 ) and his family in the Washington Metropolitan Area where he continued working on the last chapter.