After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

After extensive debate, the U. S. Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52 – 48 ; the narrowest margin since the 19th century.

After the paper was released, students and faculty staged large protests outside Jensen's U. C.

After considerable development and test firings in the U. S. and Canada, Douglas abandoned development in 1956.

After this bomber the U. S. is also thinking of another bomber in 2037.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

After departing Okinawa in spring 1962, the Bland sailed to the Panama Canal Zone where, the Panamanian government asserts, the U. S. tested herbicides in the early 1960s.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

After the proper facilities had been built and the personnel hired to make such a change, the U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an injunction and refused to allow Creekstone to buy the kits necessary to test.

After completing her regular education, Coleman joined the U. S. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant while continuing her graduate work for a Ph. D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

After tensions with the U. S. government came to a head in 1890, the church officially abandoned the public practice of polygamy in the United States, and eventually stopped performing official polygamous marriages altogether after a Second Manifesto in 1904.

After Confederation, however, this industrial base withered with technological change, and trading links to Europe and the U. S. were reduced in favour of those with Ontario and Quebec.

After U. S. support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration tried to covertly continue contra aid.

" After the U. S. enforced the embargo, Nicaragua was isolated from the West, forcing the Sandinistas to rely more on Eastern bloc military and economic assistance even though Moscow declined to offer the quantity of aid it provided to close communist allies.

After the 1778 alliance with France, the U. S. did not sign another permanent treaty until the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

After the war, the U. S. rose to become the dominant non-colonial economic power with broad influence in much of the world, with the key policies of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U. S., carriers immediately headed to the Arabian Sea to support Operation Enduring Freedom and took up station, building to a force of three carriers.

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Djibouti joined the Global War on Terror, and now hosts a large military camp, home to soldiers from many countries, but primarily the U. S.

After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U. S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981.

After initial development, Robinson turned the movement over to James E. West who became the first Chief Scout Executive and the Scouting movement began to expand in the U. S. As BSA grew, it absorbed other Scouting organizations.

After two years, he resigned from his ambassadorship because of disagreements with U. S. government policy.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

After completion of the first few documentaries, government officials and Army staff found them to be powerful messages and excellent presentations of why it was necessary for the U. S. to fight in the war.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

After a time, he straightened again, brushing the red Permian dust from his hands, slapping it from his six-dollar levis and his tailored, twenty-five-dollar shirt.

After all, you want the senora as much as you want the boy.

After walking out to his corral that morning, he'd been amazed to see the dust puff up in front of his feet.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

After their supper, the evening turned into a regular `` Hoe-Down ''.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

After a few seconds, she said, `` Dad didn't like Cappy.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

After his passage, the street was empty again.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.

After casting about for a way of describing this spirit, we decided that it would be better to use Mr. Lyford's introduction as an illustration.

After all, that's the job of the architect -- to give the world a little joy ''.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.