When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

In turn he gave FDR a showcase for New Deal achievement, helped defeat FDR's political enemies in Tammany Hall ( the Democratic party machine in Manhattan ).

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

The German Democratic Republic was declared on 7 October 1949, with a new constitution which enshrined socialism and gave the Soviet-controlled Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) control.

The turmoil over the act split both the Democratic and Whig parties and gave rise to the Republican Party, which split the United States into two major political camps, North ( Republican ) and South ( Democratic ).

This gave the MPRP the opportunity to withdraw from the coalition, and, with support of several small parties and defectors from the Democratic party, elect Miyeegombyn Enkhbold as the new prime minister.

In the September 2002 parliamentary election, a last-minute surge in support for Prime Minister Dzurinda's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union ( SDKÚ ) gave him a mandate for a second term.

The show caused a stir during the 2004 Democratic Primary when Carville gave candidate Howard Dean a soundbite during a location shoot that Dean then used in a debate.

The release in 1980 of A Secular Humanist Declaration by the newly formed Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism ( CODESH, now the Council for Secular Humanism ) gave secular humanism an organisational identity within the United States.

This gave rise to Jacksonian Nationalism and the rise of the modern Democratic Party, with Andrew Jackson elected in the 1828 election.

To break hold of the resurgent Democratic Party in the Solid South, Garfield cautiously gave senatorial patronage privilege to Virginia Senator William Mahone of the biracial independent Readjuster Party.

At the April 2006 elections, Apulia gave about 51. 54 % of its votes to Silvio Berlusconi, and at the April 2008 election Apulians gave about 47 % of their votes to the People of Freedom-led coalition, eleven points more than to the Democratic Party-led coalition.

It was in this capacity he presided over the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920 and gave his famous four hour speech in German at the Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in October 1920.

His political stature as head of the Democratic Party gave him access to many foreign officials.

The political arguments were: that recognition implied acceptance of the division of Germany ; that non-recognition meant rejection of the status quo ; that non-recognition gave moral support to the population of East Germany in rejecting the Communist regime ; that non-recognition weakened the international standing of the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union and increased the standing of the Federal Republic of Germany ; and that recognition of the German Democratic Republic would not lead to reunification because the other side would not be expected to commit political suicide.

In 2000, the company gave $ 250, 000 each to the Republican and Democratic Conventions.

At the April 2006 elections, the city of Modena gave about 50 % of its votes to the Democratic Party.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.

Then in 1875, apparently in response to the nationalizing influence of the Civil War, Congress first gave the lower federal courts general authority -- concurrently with state tribunals -- to decide cases involving federal-right questions.

In response, the industry allowed the discovery of the motion picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day.

This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood.

Hasidism gave a ready response to the burning desire of the common people, in the simple, stimulating, and comforting faith it awakened in them.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

* 1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech in response to the dismissal of Jacques Necker France's finance minister the day before.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

In response to the cooler, seasonal climate, tropical plant species gave way to deciduous ones and grasslands replaced many forests.

The council gave her the Greek title Theotokos ( literally " God-bearer ", or " Mother of God "), and the dedication of the large church in Rome is a response to that.

It was at this event when Agrippa gave his famous response to Paul's testimony, " You almost persuade me to be a Christian.

In 2010, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response from the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.

In 2011, Wisconsin Congressman and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan gave the English Republican response from the House Budget Committee hearing room, while Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered the Spanish response.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann also gave a response to the address for the Tea Party Express, a first for the political movement.

Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, gave the Republican response to the 2012 State of the Union address.

In 1000 – 1 Normandy gave shelter to a Viking army threatening England, and Æthelred may have attempted an invasion of Normandy in response, but in 1002 he changed tack and arranged to marry Emma, the sister of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, as his second wife.

In response to this, Arkan stepped away from the position of president and gave his seat to his wife Ceca.

The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory.

The King personally attended the festivities ; he gave a speech that received a blistering response by Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

It did not receive the same praise as the first, as critics gave it only a lukewarm response.

The narrative continues by stating that Hashem gave Moses a response to give to the elders, namely that the daughters must each marry someone from the Gilead clan, but they are otherwise unrestricted in their choice ; the narrative also states that the general case was to be applied-that inheritances cannot pass between tribes, but instead any female that inherits land is compelled to marry someone from the same clan as her father.

The government gave a vague response.

In response, readers gave more than $ 37, 000 in donations and other support in less than a week.

During 1842 in response to the blue book published by Villiers ' 1840 Committee on Import Duties, Peel gave the concession of modifying the sliding scale by reducing the maximum duty to 20 shillings when the price decreased to 51 shillings or less.