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In the early 1990s the Military Intelligence Board, chaired by DIA chief Soyster, appointed an Army Colonel, William Johnson, to manage the remote viewing unit and evaluate its objective usefulness.
Morris was elected to serve on a committee of five ( chaired by William Samuel Johnson ) who drafted the final language of the proposed constitution.
Johnson chaired the vice presidential selection committee for the unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry.
The Committee is chaired by Ralph Hall of Texas, and the Ranking Member is Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas.
The Committee is chaired by Democrat Tim Johnson of South Dakota, and the Ranking Member is Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama.
Johnson has issued a report on the sustainability measures involved planning for London ’ s hosting of the Olympics in 2012, and has also chaired an inquiry on nuclear waste trains for the London Assembly.
He chaired Italo-Americans for Kennedy in 1960, Italian Americans for Johnson in 1964 and Italian Americans for Humphrey in 1968.
Weisberg chaired the judging panel for the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for excellence in non-fiction writing.
Johnson in 1996 chaired a special committee examining tort reform.
The Politics of Marshall, Texas is centered on the city commission chaired by William " Buddy " Power and other city commissioners, Gloria Moon, Jack Hester, Chris Paddie, Ed Hoffman, John Wilborn, and Zephaniah Timmins, as well as City Manager Frank Johnson.
In 2003, Mr. Johnson interned with GOPAC while playing for the Washington Redskins, then chaired by former congressman and standout quarterback J. C. Watts.
President John F. Kennedy asked Macy to return to the Civil Service Commission in 1961, and Macy chaired the commission through Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

Johnson and House
alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him
In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.
In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.
In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.
When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.
The Andrew Johnson House, built in 1851, Greeneville, Tennessee
Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.
In December 1852 Johnson realized his dream of passage in the House of his Homestead Act, which even garnered the support of Horace Greeley.
Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.
Three days after Stanton's removal, the House impeached Johnson for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47.
A Northern senator averred that ' Andrew Johnson was the queerest character that ever occupied the White House.
' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.
* " Andrew Johnson ", White House Biography
King, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Son House and Robert Johnson.
He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.
* 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives.
In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.
The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.
During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.
* Jay W. Johnson, United States House of Representatives, Wisconsin
The House has thus far impeached two presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
Although he accepted an invitation from President Lyndon B. Johnson to revisit the White House in 1964, Nurmi lived a very secluded life until the late 1960s when he began granting some press interviews.

Johnson and committee
During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.
In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the " Yes We Can " rally at the Johnson Center atrium.
A special Negro league committee selected Satchel Paige in 1971, followed by ( in alphabetical order ) Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Martín Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard and John Henry Lloyd.
" Congress responded by making Johnson chairman of a high-powered subcommittee of the Naval Affairs committee.
Thus with the help of the judiciary committee led by Senator James Eastland, the bill ended up being far weaker than it originally started, but it still became law and Johnson tried to give himself credit for its passage.
These petitions were referred to Johnson's committee, and in response, Johnson, a practicing Baptist, drafted a report now commonly referred to as " The Sunday Mail Report ".
Members of the Borough Council ( with term-end year and committee chairmanship in parentheses ) are Council President Jerry Bertekap ( 2012 ; Parks and Recreation ), Richard Gallo ( 2014 ; Public Works & Engineering ), John W. Ibex ( 2013 ; Public Safety ), Joseph A. Irace ( 2013 ; Finance & Administration ), William Johnson ( 2012 ; Planning & Development ) and Ellynn M. Kahle ( 2014 ; Health & Human Services ).
Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).
On May 4, 1961, his committee sent a memo to then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson on this subject.
President Johnson submitted the treaty to Congress for ratification with Sumner ’ s approval and on April 9, his foreign relations committee approved and sent the treaty to the Senate.
Thomas S. Johnson, chairman of the foundation's executive committee announced on May 9, 2006:
He was a member of the medical advisory committee of the Hoover Commission and was chairman of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke during the Johnson Administration.
Graves ' design was selected in a large design competition, with Johnson as one of the three members of the selection committee.
On June 4, 2008, Obama announced the formation of a three-person committee to vet vice presidential candidates, including Johnson .< ref >
As one of three Republicans on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, he was involved with the investigation of Johnson aide Bobby Baker in 1964, which he decried as " a whitewash " after the committee blocked further investigation.
In Miracle at Philadelphia, Catherine Drinker Bowen called Johnson " the perfect man to preside over these four masters of argument and political strategy fellow committee members Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, and Rufus King ... His presence on the committee must have been reassuring ; the doctor's quiet manner disarmed.
Johnson was not called before the committee because " The committee will not take cognizance of names brought into the testimony which constitute mere hearsay.
This selection was made by an internal committee led by Jets Chairman and CEO Woody Johnson.

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