Nowadays, it is strongly supportive of Israel, and former Party leader Per Ahlmark has been especially vocal on the issue.

Upon the resignation of Liberal Party leader Per Ahlmark in 1978, Ullsten was elected party leader.

On February 7, 2006 Sweden's former deputy prime minister and Liberal party leader Per Ahlmark asserted that he had nominated Timmerman for a Nobel Peace Prize along with UN Ambassador John Bolton for " their repeated warnings and documentation of Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealing Iran's repeated lying and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Per Ahlmark, co-founder of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, has described Radio Islam as " the most vicious anti-Jewish campaign in Europe since the Third Reich.

In the 1960s FPU became prominent under the leadership of among others Per Ahlmark and Ola Ullsten and influenced its mother party in a radical direction.

Per Axel Ahlmark ( born 15 January 1939 ) is a Swedish writer and former politician.

Per Ahlmark was born in Stockholm, Sweden, as the son of the professor in medicine Axel Ahlmark and the dentist Gunvor Berglund.

Ahlmark joined the Liberal Youth of Sweden in 1960 and was elected chairman of the organization the same year.

Following the unicameral reform in Sweden in 1970 / 1971, Ahlmark served as a member of the unicameral parliament until 1978.

On 7 November 1975, Ahlmark succeeded Gunnar Helén as leader of the Liberal People's Party.

From 1976 to 1978, in the first non-socialist government in Sweden in forty years, Ahlmark served as Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister.

On 7 March 1978, Ahlmark retired from party politics due to personal reasons.

Ahlmark has published several political books and many hundreds of articles about politics, literature and international conflicts.

Ahlmark also serves as an advisor to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity since 1987, and is a member of board of the Geneva-based NGO UN Watch since 1993.

In 1994, Ahlmark published the widely debated book Vänstern och tyranniet (" Tyranny and the Left "), which is the major work on Swedish fellow travellers and political pilgrims during the last thirty years.

On account of Ahlmark's 70th birthday in 2009, a new foundation called The Per Ahlmark Foundation was established in October 2008 by the Jewish assembly in Stockholm.

Ahlmark was first married to the journalist Lillemor Melsted in 1965.

The contemporary Swedish Liberal party Liberal People's Party counts him as the first among the more prominent leaders of Swedish 20th century liberalism, followed by such parliamentarians as Nils Edén, Carl Ekman, nobel prize laureate Bertil Ohlin, Gunnar Helén, Per Ahlmark and Bengt Westerberg.

In an article in The Washington Times, Ahlmark described Blix as politically " weak and easily fooled " and a " wimp ".

Some of the harshest attacks were launched by Per Ahlmark, who declared Lindqvist to be a " Holocaust revisionist ".

Ahlmark is also one of the strongest Swedish lobbyists for Israel and accuses in his recent book " Gör inga dumheter medan jag är död!

Per Ahlmark, former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and founder of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism, writes in his 2004 book Det är demokratin, dumbom!

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

Throughout his first year in office, Clinton consistently supported ratification of the treaty by the U. S. Senate.

* U. A. Whitaker ( deceased )-provider of The Whitaker Foundation, which supported research and education in BME by providing over $ 700 million to various universities, helping to create 30 BME programs and helping finance the construction of 13 buildings

Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba openly supported the black nationalist and Marxist-oriented Black Panther Party of the U. S. Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them after they had been convicted of crimes in the U. S.

During the Reagan administration, conservatives also supported the so-called " Reagan Doctrine " under which the U. S., as part of a Cold War strategy, provided military and other support to guerrilla insurgencies that were fighting governments aligned with the Soviet Union.

Human Rights Watch, the umbrella organization of Americas Watch, replied to these allegations: " Almost invariably, U. S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U. S .- supported insurgents, known as the contras ....

He supported the annexation of Texas and the U. S .- Mexican War.

During the 1992 U. S. presidential election campaign, the civil rights of gays and lesbians, particularly their open service in the military, attracted some press attention, and all candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination supported ending the ban on military service by gays and lesbians,

Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification ; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad ; Betty Ford supported women's rights ; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities ; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign ; Barbara Bush promoted literacy ; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U. S .; and Laura Bush supported women's ' rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

During the U. S. Presidential Election of 1864, Douglass supported John C. Frémont.

United States foreign policy experts consistently feared that Western Europe and Japan would be Finlandized, leading to a situation in which these key allies no longer supported the U. S. against the Soviet Union.

For the next twenty years, the U. S. government was involved in quelling Central American disputes, insurrections, and revolutions, whether supported by neighboring governments or by United States companies.

In 1861 Napoleon III largely supported Maximilian in his claim to Mexico, a move that was also supported by Britain and Spain but condemned by the U. S. This led to the French intervention in Mexico, which turned out to be a failure.

On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

* JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration as a data warehouse for human clinical trial information

Dunst supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

And these acts influenced similar laws in other countries, most notably the U. S. The first tax-supported public library in the United States was Peterborough, New Hampshire ( 1833 ) first supported by state funds then an " Act Providing for the Establishment of Public Libraries " in 1849.

Under his leadership, Canada supported the United Nations ( U. N .) in the Korean War and committed the third largest overall contribution of troops, ships and aircraft to the U. N. forces to the conflict.