Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

President Doe and Yormie Johnson ( INPFL ) agreed to this intervention, Taylor didn ’ t.

Two centuries later Jonathan Swift said he was " the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ," a sentiment with which Samuel Johnson agreed.

Grant, wishing to appear loyal to his Commander-in-Chief, agreed to accompany Johnson ; however he confided in his wife that he thought Johnson's speeches were a " national disgrace ".

Not everyone agreed with the Warren Commission, and numerous public and private investigations continued for decades after Johnson left office.

In August 1913, as Johnson neared the end of his troubled reign as world heavyweight champ, there were rumors that he had agreed to fight Langford in Paris for the title, but it came to nought.

Reeside agreed to do so if Johnson would also.

Amongst the general public there is a huge amount of support for the project and Mayor Boris Johnson stated that a station would be added if it did not increase Crossrail's overall cost ; in response, Kensington and Chelsea Council agreed to underwrite the projected £ 33 million cost of a Crossrail station, which was received very well by the residents of the Borough.

Ford commented, " I strongly felt that although I agreed with the goals of the Johnson administration in Vietnam, I vigorously criticized their prosecution of the war.

Chrysalis Records agreed to allow Knight and Johnson to work on " King " only as a way to persuade the duo to continue working with Steeleye.

Two, it was rumored that Ketchel and Johnson, when they agreed to the fight, agreed to take the fight to the full 20 rounds and Ketchel would allow Johnson to win in the 20th.

In 1965 Britain and Guatemala agreed to have a United States lawyer, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, mediate the dispute.

Johnson agreed to publish any article Muir wrote on the subject of excluding livestock from the Sierra high country.

The strike continued to escalate until Johnson finally agreed to fly out from Washington, D. C., and meet with the veterans.

Johnson agreed to a four-year contract, with an option for a fifth year, for $ 52. 4 million, with the Arizona Diamondbacks ; a second-year franchise.

Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was very sympathetic to Johnson's grief and agreed to trade him back to the Diamondbacks so that Johnson could be closer to his family in Phoenix.

The Ohio Native Americans agreed to attend a more formal peace conference with William Johnson, which was finalized in July 1765.

While Charlot Kaské wanted to burn Croghan at the stake, Pontiac urged moderation and agreed to travel to New York, where he made a formal treaty with William Johnson at Fort Ontario on July 25, 1766.

Its immediate success attracted the attention of another locally based firm — the Johnson Products Company ( manufacturers of the Afro Sheen line of hair-care products )— and they later agreed to co-sponsor the program's expansion into national syndication.

For five months the negotiations stalled as North Vietnam demanded that all bombing of North Vietnam be stopped, while the U. S. side demanded that North Vietnam agree to a reciprocal de-escalation in South Vietnam ; it was not until 31 October that Johnson agreed to end the air strikes and serious negotiations could begin.

In August 1913, as Johnson neared the end of his troubled reign as World Heavyweight Champion, there were rumors that he had agreed to fight Langford in Paris for the title, but it came to nought.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.

Eric Foner denounced Johnson as a " fervent white supremacist " who foiled Reconstruction ; Sean Wilentz wrote that Johnson " actively sided with former Confederates " in his attempts to derail Reconstruction.

He identified himself as a political independent although he held conservative opinions on several issues, including the Vietnam War ( he once wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. to defend the Johnson Administration's military policy ).

Simon Johnson wrote that " the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy is quite recent ," a structure which he delineated as being the " most advanced " in the world.

Sports Illustrateds Joe Posnanski wrote, " There has never been a pitcher in baseball history — not Walter Johnson, not Lefty Grove, not Sandy Koufax, not Tom Seaver, not Roger Clemens — who was more overwhelming than the young Pedro.

In his essay The Life of Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson wrote of " an old Puritan, who was alive in my childhood ... would have none of his superstitious meats and drinks.

It was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as " a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal " ( although the classical scholar Richard Bentley wrote: " It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.

As recently as the 1970s the wines of Provence had the reputation of being rather ordinary: In 1971 wine critic Hugh Johnson wrote: " The whites are dry and can lack the acidity to be refreshing ; the reds are straightforward, strong and a trifle dull ; it is usually the rosés, often orange-tinted, which have most appeal.

" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.

George and Louis Johnson later joined Billy Preston's band, and wrote Music in My Life and The Kids and Me for him before leaving his group in 1973.

* Lillian de la Torre wrote two stories in her Samuel Johnson series featuring meetings between Johnson and " The Young Pretender.

In the context of discussing code words used in the President's Daily Brief ( PDB ) during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, former CIA Director Richard Helms wrote:

Frederick Perls and Paul Goodman, founders of Gestalt therapy are said to have been influenced by Korzybski Wendell Johnson wrote " People in Quandries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment " in 1946, which stands as the first attempt to form a therapy from general semantics.

Johnson wrote to the well-known radical orator Henry Hunt asking him to chair a large meeting planned for Manchester on 2 August 1819.

In his letter Johnson wrote:

Two days later, in response to the incident, in a memo to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, his Special Assistant Walt Rostow wrote: " retaliation is not the point in this case.

" Another time she wrote, " A man by the name of William Johnson will apply to you for assistance to purchase the freedom of his daughter.

Upon visiting the establishment, Amos Kendall wrote to President Van Buren that he found Johnson " happy in the inglorious pursuit of tavern keeping – even giving his personal superintendence to the chicken and egg purchasing and water-melon selling department ".

He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.

Samuel Johnson, a devoted anti-militarian, wrote in his poem " The Vanity of Human Wishes ":

He also wrote introductions to new publications of such diverse works as Great Expectations, Walter Scott's Old Mortality, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson.

* L. Frank Baum wrote four novels for adults that were never published and disappeared: Our Marred Life and Johnson ( 1912 ), The Mystery of Bonita ( 1914 ), and Molly Oodle ( 1915 ).