Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

During his term as Vice President, George H. W. Bush was first depicted as completely invisible, his words emanating from a little “ voice box ” in the air.

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

In mid-1968 Askin famously became embroiled in a media controversy over the reporting of several words spoken to the United States Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney on 32 July 1968 ( also the day Opposition Leader Renshaw resigned, to be replaced by Pat Hills ), in which he spoke of the October 1966 state visit by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Thirteenth Amendment's archival copy bears an apparent Presidential signature, under the usual ones of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, after the words " Approved February 1, 1865 ".

On June 14, President Harding was also the first president to be heard by the U. S. public on the new mass medium: he spoke on radio at a dedication site in honor of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

Although considered something of a political joke at first — one Democratic television commercial featured hearty laughter as the camera panned to a TV with the words " Vice President Spiro Agnew?

" A man is ruined everywhere and forever ," in the words of the chairman of President Truman's Loyalty Review Board.

The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words, write the final pages of the history of the Soviet Union.

President Bush acknowledged this by beginning his speech with the words, " Tonight, I have a high privilege and distinct honor of my own — as the first President to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker ".

In the words of Benjamin F. Perry, President Johnson's choice as the provisional governor of South Carolina: " First, the Negro is to be invested with all political power, and then the antagonism of interest between capital and labor is to work out the result.

In the words of U. S. President Eisenhower:

The use of the words " continue " and " resume " imply that the Vice President remains Acting President while Congress deliberates.

Bushisms are unconventional words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of former President of the United States George W. Bush and of his father, George H. W. Bush.

Referring to communism in Indochina, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower put the theory into words during an April 7, 1954 news conference:

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

Anthony Heilbut, author of The Gospel Sound, states that the " dangers, toils, and snares " of Newton's words are a " universal testimony " of the African American experience.

Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

Nevertheless it remains the case that, although spoken American and British English are generally mutually intelligible, there are enough differences to cause occasional misunderstandings or at times embarrassment — for example some words that are quite innocent in one dialect may be considered vulgar in the other.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

* French-derived words that in American English end with-or and-er, such as color or center, retain British spellings ( colour, honour and centre ).

The pronunciation of certain words has both American and British influence ; some pronunciations are more distinctively Canadian.

In the words of William Jennings Bryan, " You shall not crucify the American farmer on a cross of gold.

In American English, words that are unacceptable on television, such as fuck, may be represented by deformations such as freak — even in children's cartoons.

Historically, the American film industry portrayed the Foreign Legion as, in the words of Neil Tweedie of The Daily Telegraph, having " a reputation as a haven for cut-throats, crooks and sundry fugitives from justice " and also having many men escaping failed romances.

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

Contemporary American anarchist Hakim Bey reports that " Steven Pearl Andrews ... was not a fourierist ( see Charles Fourier ), but he lived through the brief craze for phalansteries in America & adopted a lot of fourierist principles & practices ... a maker of worlds out of words.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

The American Declaration of Independence includes the words ( which echo Locke ) " all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to insure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

In the words of author Thomas Doherty, " For American popular culture, the image of the zaftig FBI director as a Christine Jorgensen wanna-be was too delicious not to savor ”.

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These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II.