He was one of only three presidents who chose not to attend their respective successor's inauguration ; the others were his father and Andrew Johnson

Instead, Johnson chose Battling Jim Johnson, a mediocrity who, in 1910, had lost to Langford and had a draw and loss via KO to Sam McVey, the former coloured champ.

In 1948, 95. 85 percent of voters supported Harry S. Truman, in 1960 76. 9 percent of voters chose John F. Kennedy and in 1964, 84. 1 percent of voters supported Lyndon Johnson.

In September 1985, the party leadership election chose Pierre-Marc Johnson as his successor.

Johnson chose to remain in Greeneville after learning that the town's tailor was planning to retire.

The federal government chose Francis Godschall Johnson as his replacement on April 9, 1872, but this commission was revoked before Johnson was sworn in.

However, for largely domestic political reasons, President Lyndon B. Johnson chose not to mobilize most of the nation ’ s reserve forces before 1968.

After making the merge, Morasca was relatively safe at the start as the majority of the tribe chose to vote off outcasts Roger Sexton and Dave Johnson.

Instead, Johnson chose Battling Jim Johnson, a mediocrity who, in 1910, had lost to Langford and had a draw and loss via knock out to Sam McVey, another former Colored Champion.

Harold Johnson, one of those involved in the games, chose to play a halfling thief character whom he called Almar Tann.

Kenwright, who had been a director at Everton for ten years, had an opportunity to sway the board members to accept his bid but chose not to because he did not want a public relations battle with the more affluent Johnson.

Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U. S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention ; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings ( who chose to represent himself at trial ); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months ; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey ; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army ; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family.

The party chose Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas, as minority leader.

Forstmann Little offered to acquire RJR Nabisco, but the management ( chiefly F. Ross Johnson ) instead chose Shearson Lehman Hutton.

In 1960, when Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts won the nomination, he chose Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas in an effort to win that state's critical electoral votes and enhance his appeal in the South.

Johnson chose not to seek selection as mayoral candidate for a third time.

Johnson wanted to advertise the fact that he'd hired a black woman, but chose not to call a news conference.

The colors that Frank Lloyd Wright chose for the Johnson Wax building are cream ( for the columns and mortar ) and " Cherokee red " for the floors, bricks, and furniture.

John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts chose Texan Lyndon Johnson to appeal to southern voters.

Scriptwriter Nunnally Johnson founded International Pictures ( his own independent production company ) after writing successful films such as The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ) and other John Ford films, and chose The Woman in the Window as its premiere project.

United Airlines ' president, Philip G. Johnson, for instance, chose to leave the United States and helped to form Trans-Canada Airlines.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Johnson responded approximately one week later, concluding that " we are neither making maximum effort nor achieving results necessary if this country is to reach a position of leadership.

As a consequence, Johnson assumed an attitude of white supremacy typical of one in his position in his town, and he was unable to shed this perspective during his life.

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.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Johnson succeeded in getting the bank appointments he wanted, in return for his endorsement of John Bell for one of the state's U. S. Senate seats.

With the Confederates having confiscated his land, his slaves taken away, and his home made into a military hospital, Johnson made his final comments in the Senate: " I am a Democrat now, I have been one all my life ; I expect to live and die one, and the corner-stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis of the Union.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

Johnson managed to nullify the agreement, initially placating Stanton on the one hand, but without alienating Sherman and his allies.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

Johnson is one of only four presidents who did not appoint a justice to serve on the Supreme Court.

Johnson appointed one judge to the United States Court of Claims, Samuel Milligan, who served from 1868 to 1874.

They are distinct from the Platonic solids, which are composed of only one type of polygon meeting in identical vertices, and from the Johnson solids, whose regular polygonal faces do not meet in identical vertices.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

On September 21, closer Jim Johnson earned his 46th save of the season, setting a new Orioles franchise record for saves by one pitcher in a single season.

Professor Norman Johnson, commenting on the propensity of Internet posters to flame one another, states:

Johnson defined it with two poems, one by Jonathan Swift, the other by Sir John Suckling.

Talented young stars provided solid defensive play with catcher Charles Johnson setting a major league record by playing in 123 games without committing a single error, while Luis Castillo ( 2B ) and Edgar Rentería ( SS ) comprised one of the best double play combos in the League.

Geneva also has one of the oldest basketball courts in collegiate sports in the Johnson Gymnasium.

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.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.