During the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, Clinton vigorously advocated on behalf of his wife, Hillary Clinton.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

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,

During his presidential campaign, Obama backed the repeal of DADT.

During the following year, three different men briefly held executive power before Galo Plaza Lasso, running under a coalition of independent Liberals and socialists, narrowly defeated his Conservative opponent in presidential elections.

During a night of confusion and failed negotiations President Mahuad was forced to flee the presidential palace for his own safety.

During the 1972 presidential election, James Brown openly proclaimed his support of Richard Nixon for reelection of the presidency over Democrat candidate George McGovern.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Lynch was one of eight superdelegates from New Hampshire.

During the 1988 presidential election, the two antagonized each other.

During the thirteenth Knesset ( 1992 – 1996 ) it was decided to hold a separate ballot for prime minister modeled after American presidential elections.

During the 2008 presidential election, King voiced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

During the presidential elections of 2006 she was criticized by rivals for this.

During the 1960 presidential campaign, the issue of whether the nation would for the first time elect a Catholic to the highest office in the land raised the specter of an implicit, but no less effective, religious test.

During the 1992 US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit " Don't Stop " as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala.

During the 1995 presidential campaign, Chirac criticised the " sole thought " ( pensée unique ) of neoliberalism represented by his challenger on the right and promised to reduce the " social fracture ", placing himself more to the center and thus forcing Balladur to radicalise himself.

During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to the Democratic U. S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie.

During the 1980 U. S. presidential campaign, the Citizens Party candidate Barry Commoner ran a radio advertisement that began with an actor exclaiming: " Bullshit!

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Eastwood stated that he would be voting for John McCain, citing the fact that he had known McCain since he returned to America in 1973 as a recently released POW.

" During the 2008 U. S. presidential campaign, a John McCain supporter referred to Hillary Clinton by asking, " How do we beat the bitch?

During his presidential term, Allende took positions held by the Communists, in opposition to the views of the socialists.

During the campaign for the 1960 United States presidential election, John F. Kennedy assured the Seneca Nation that he would oppose the dam if elected.

During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.

During last year's campaign, Kennedy asked Walton, an utter novice in organization politics, to assist him.

During the election campaign, both candidates, Davis and Bush, reportedly received anonymous telephone calls.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

During the campaign for the New Hampshire primary, reports of an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers surfaced.

During the campaign, questions of conflict of interest regarding state business and the politically powerful Rose Law Firm, at which Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, arose.

During Clinton's re-election campaign he said, " My 1994 crime bill expanded the death penalty for drug kingpins, murderers of federal law enforcement officers, and nearly 60 additional categories of violent felons.

During this campaign, the Navy had awarded 69 BSMs, and the Army with 5, 000 troops in neighboring Albania ( considered part of the combat zone ) awarded none.

During the time congress blocked funding for the contras, the Reagan government engaged in a campaign to alter public opinion and change the vote in congress on contra aid.

During the same year, he directed Hell-Bent for Election, a campaign film for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

During World War II, he served in a tank unit in the Italian campaign.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign for election to the U. S. Senate, the couple's daughter Chelsea took over much of the First Lady's role.

During the campaign, he neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated.

During the making of the film and subsequent promotion campaign Phoenix stayed in character including a notorious interview with David Letterman and the film maker Casey Affleck maintained the ruse that the film was true, only later admitting that it was not.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops.

During his Danube sojourn ( Drinkwater suggests in 255 or 256 ) he proclaimed his elder son Valerian II Caesar and thus official heir to himself and Valerian I ; the boy probably now joined Gallienus on campaign and when Gallienus moved west to the Rhine provinces in 257 remained behind on the Danube as the personification of Imperial authority.

During a naval campaign of 1339, and again in 1377, the town was raided and burnt by the French, and seems then to have gone into a decline.

* During the 1982 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict, Hezbollah waged a guerrilla campaign against Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon.