Davis quickly apologized for the poorly timed comic strip, claiming that it had been written a year in advance and that both his brother and son were veterans.

In a speech at UCLA on August 19, 2003, Davis apologized for being slow to act during the energy crisis, but then forcefully attacked the Houston-based energy suppliers: " I inherited the energy deregulation scheme which put us all at the mercy of the big energy producers.

While in the Senate, he challenged another young senator, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, to a duel over a perceived insult on the Senate floor ; Davis apologized, and the two began a close friendship.

When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

Within a month of their meeting, the 35-year-old widower Davis had asked Varina to marry him.

In 1849, López visited Davis and asked him to lead his filibuster expedition to Cuba.

When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.

By 2000, the Innu island community of Davis Inlet asked the Canadian government to assist with a local addiction crisis.

Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out ( not accompany ), which almost brought them to blows.

In 2001, in order for gas prices to remain reasonable in California while removing MTBE, Davis asked President George W. Bush to order the EPA to grant California a waiver on the federal minimum oxygen requirement.

After the fall of Atlanta in September 1864, President Davis considered replacing John Bell Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee and he asked Robert E. Lee to find out if Beauregard would be interested.

In the late 19th century, Henry Gassaway Davis, at the time a U. S. Senator, founded the Junior Coal Company and named it after his son, Henry Gassaway Davis, Jr. After Davis ' son drowned off the coast of Africa in 1897, the elder Davis asked that the town name be changed in memory of his son.

Justice Scalia also asked how the holding of the majority could be reconciled with Davis v. Beason,:

Stone asked Davis to pick up the convention planning reins alone, and set out for Illinois.

He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.

Director Vincent Sherman, with whom Davis had once been romantically involved, admitted to the detectives investigating the incident, " If you asked everyone on the set who would have committed such a thing, everyone would raise their hand!

When John Kiernan asked Dow to find another reporter for the Bureau, Dow invited Edward Davis Jones to work with him.

In December, President Davis asked Bragg to take command of the Trans-Mississippi Department, but Bragg declined.

It was discovered after the murder that Askew had asked Davis to sign papers naming him as Davis's replacement in case anything happened to Davis.

Davis was asked to draft a proposal to create such a school.

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's " Put it off Until Tomorrow " and Skeeter Davis ' 1967 hit " Fuel to the Flame ".

Upon leaving Wagoner's organization in 1974, Parton formed her own " Travelin ' Family Band ", made up largely of siblings, cousins and other family members, and touring with a number of other acts, including Willie Nelson and Mac Davis.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.

She bequeathed Davis her plantation before her death in 1878, as well as additional funds for his support.

For eight years following Sarah's death, Davis was reclusive ; he worshipped her memory.

Knowing she was severely ill, in 1878 Dorsey made over her will, leaving Beauvoir and her financial assets to Jefferson Davis and, in the case of his death, to his only surviving child, Winnie Davis.

Davis ' mother, Cleota Mae ( Henry ) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano ; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son.

In 1929, her mother married Loyal Davis ( 1896 – 1982 ), a prominent, politically conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago.

At the time of the adoption, her name was legally changed to Nancy Davis ( since birth, she had commonly been called Nancy ).

Following her graduation, Davis held jobs in Chicago as a sales clerk in Marshall Field's department store and as a nurse's aide.

" In 1951, Davis appeared in her favorite screen role, Night Into Morning, a study of bereavement starring Ray Milland.

" MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952 ; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year.

That evening, as I learned later, the students, enjoying that spontaneous immodesty in action known only to university students, surged out onto the streets of Strasbourg, overturning empty streetcars, marking up store fronts, and shouting imprudently, `` Garry Davis to power ''!!

Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

Because of his war service, Governor Brown of Mississippi appointed Davis to fill out the senate term of the late Jesse Speight.

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were members of the band, and Davis was brought in on third trumpet for a couple of weeks because the regular player, Buddy Anderson, was out sick.

Davis dropped out of Juilliard, after asking permission from his father.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Al Davis had an enlarged photo of Joe Namath at Oakland's headquarters that depicted the quarterback sprawled out on the ground following a vicious hit from Raider defender Ben Davidson ; the photographed play was said to have broken the quarterback's jaw ( though Namath stated he had broken it on a tough piece of steak, and some claim it was Raiders defensive end Ike Lassiter who injured Namath ).

While the band Korn is considered the pioneers of the nu metal genre, frontman Johnathan Davis stated: " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

Kelly did connect with Thomas on a screen pass for a 17 yard touchdown, and Ken Davis ran it in from two yards out for another score.

When President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.

The move was made under unfortunate circumstances – as it turned out that Davis had leukemia, and died without ever playing a down in professional football.

" " In the African American community, the word nigga ( not nigger ) brings out feelings of pride " ( Davis 1 ).

After Chicago, the Justice Department meted out conspiracy and incitement to riot charges in connection with the violence at Chicago and gave birth to the Chicago Eight, which consisted of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.

Corrupt county commissioner Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg, who either runs or has fingers in just about everything in Hazzard County ( and whose exact powers, much like the terms of the Duke boys ' probation, often vary between episodes ) is forever angry with the Dukes, in particular Bo and Luke, for eternally foiling his crooked scams and is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so that his plots have a chance of succeeding.

Due to controversies and arguments over the band being heavy metal or not than just with nu metal being heavy metal or not, lead singer Jonathan Davis commented, " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

Both Davis and Hanson point out that both armies had to live off the countryside, neither having a commissary system sufficient to provide supplies for a campaign.

Moreover, as Davis points out, this infantry was heavily armed, each man carrying up to perhaps 75 pounds ( 34 kg ) of wood and iron armour into battle.