Johnson chaired this committee, and delivered its final report.

Johnson chaired the inquiry committee.

Johnson chaired a House committee to report on the subject, and delivered the committee's report on January 17, 1832.

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.

As chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense, Johnson continued his relentless opposition to spending, especially when the capital city was the beneficiary ; he argued it was egregious to expect citizens in other states to fund the infrastructure of another locality, regardless of the fact it was the seat of government.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

The Committee head for selecting the location, New Jersey Democrat David Wilentz, gave the official reason for choosing Chicago as, “ It is centrally located geographically which will reduce transportation costs and because it has been the site of national conventions for both Parties in the past and is therefore attuned to holding them .” In the end, however, the conversation between Johnson and Daley had been leaked to the press and published in the Chicago Tribune and several other papers.

Johnson was immediately appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee.

The Democratic State Central Committee ( not the State of Texas, because the matter was a party primary ) handled the count, and it finally announced that Johnson had won by 87 votes.

Johnson was appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee, and later in 1950, he helped create the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee.

Kennedy did give Johnson control over all presidential appointments involving Texas, and he was appointed chairman of the President's Ad Hoc Committee for Science.

Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Senate Majority Secretary and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance.

The Senior Interdepartment Group ( SIG ) of the Johnson White House was replaced by an NSC Review Group ( somewhat similar to the Eisenhower-era NSC Planning Group ) together with an NSC Under Secretary's Committee.

Johnson served as chairman of the Committee on Claims during the Eleventh Congress ( 1809 – 1811 ).

Johnson wielded considerable influence over defense policy as chair of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Fifteenth Congress.

Johnson served as chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses.

, members of the Cranbury Township Committee are Mayor David Cook ( whose term of office ends December 31, 2012 ), Susan J. Goetz ( 2014 ), Glenn Johnson ( 2013 ), Daniel P. Mulligan, III ( 2013 ) and James Taylor ( 2012 ).

" During his two terms in office ( 1971 – 1975 ), the Mayor of Austin Roy Butler partnered with former United States First Lady Lady Bird Johnson to establish the Town Lake Beautification Committee with the purpose of transforming the Town Lake area into a usable recreation area.

Johnson achieved Senate seniority as Chairman of the Committee on Cuban Relations in the Sixty-sixth Congress ; he was also a member of the Patents, Immigration, Territories and Insular Possessions and Commerce committees.

In 2001 the 4th edition rules, with corrections and retitled 4th Edition Gold, were placed on the Games Workshop website as a downloadable pdf file, and Johnson announced that the rules were now " experimental " and announced the creation of the Blood Bowl Rules Committee ( BBRC ), a group of Blood Bowl players, some GW staff, most not, that would look at the rules once a year and produce new official rules changes and experimental rules for possible inclusion in the future rules changes.

After graduation he practiced law in Clarksburg, West Virginia ; his firm, Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC eventually opened offices in Charleston, West Virginia, and Washington, D. C .. Elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1916, he served as majority floor leader and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

In June 1949, the House Committee on Armed Services launched an investigation into charges, emanating unofficially from Navy sources, of malfeasance in office against Secretary Johnson and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington.

The official note taker, Robert H. Johnson, testified to this before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975.

Jackson was not only successful as a politician in Washington State, but also found recognition on the national level, rising to the position of chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1960 after being considered for the vice presidential ticket spot that eventually went to fellow Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Bruner also served as a member of the Educational Panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

As a 2006-2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, he joined the Professional Staff of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Washington, D. C.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

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 ".

* The World Atlas of Wine, resource on wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

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.

" Johnson frequently alienated his party through a strict adherence to his positions on slavery, the tariff and limited government spending.

Johnson supported the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, who thought it up to the people in each state to decide on the issue.

In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

" Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied initially only to states in rebellion ; Johnson rationalized that Tennessee in this regard was a part of the Union, and on that basis requested, and received, an exemption from the Proclamation.

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.