Purportedly Johnson vowed revenge for his mother's interference.

" Johnson labelled the recommendation a " joke ," noting the absence of several other combatants from the list, and vowed to resist any charges brought as a result of the report.

Apparently when Mr. Johnson was a child he was frequently too poor to ride the local carousel and he vowed this would never happen to another child in the area.

Johnson vowed to contest Ryan as an Independent at the 2010 federal election.

Johnson later acknowledged that he simply " choked "; he vowed never to repeat this again and credited this game as an important lesson to become a better player.

He proposed too many coincidences to ignore the possibility of Sigvald Pedersen Haaskjold from Norway emerging as Albert Johnson.

Johnson was trying to grab the wheel, though the swerve of the truck was throwing him away from it.

As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall, Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him.

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 ''??

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 ".

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

As his master J. Selby refused to release him from his apprenticeship obligation, Johnson left and went to Mooresville, Alabama.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

In 1840 Johnson was appointed as a presidential elector for his state, giving him more statewide exposure.

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.

Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.

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.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When Secretary Stanton did not join the President's opposition to the Reconstruction acts, Johnson decided to dismiss him together with his radical subordinates.

Johnson dismissed Stanton again and appointed Lorenzo Thomas to replace him.

Stanberry resigned and Johnson replaced him with William M. Evarts as Attorney General.

Includes all letters and speeches by Johnson, and many letters written to him.

Writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that the lads idolize even though he beats them up ; Judge based Todd on a teenaged bully who lived near him and terrified him as a kid.

Johnson ( 1724 ) described him as " such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.

Jones immediately fired Tom Landry, the only head coach in franchise history, replacing him with University of Miami head coach Jimmy Johnson.

During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.

Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: " I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement.

In 1610 Ainsworth was forced reluctantly to withdraw, with a large part of their church, from Johnson and those who adhered to him.

After inspecting Pei's work at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, they offered him the commission.

He joined Johnson in arguing that Congress should allow congressional representatives from the South to be seated.

Jack Valenti, who served as a special assistant to Johnson, later suggested that pulling the ad was a calculated move, arguing that " it showed a certain gallantry on the part of the Johnson campaign to withdraw the commercial.

A case was brought before the High Court of Australia arguing that the Federal Government did not have the constitutional power to construct the tower ( Johnson v Kent ( 1975 ) 132 CLR 164 ).

In early 1876 Johnson was in Annapolis, Maryland arguing the case of Baker v. Frick in the Court of Appeals and was a guest at the Maryland Governor's Mansion.

Upon his resignation, McCone submitted a final policy memorandum to Johnson arguing that Johnson's expansion of the war in Vietnam would arouse national and world discontent before it brought down the North Vietnamese regime.

Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American " schoolmarms ", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks.

Johnson appealed the conviction to the federal courts, arguing that burning the flag was protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Catcher Charles Johnson, who had been acquired along with Wilson in the Hampton trade, was traded to the Boston Red Sox.

As a result of these two critical decisions, Professor Linda Cooke Johnson has concluded that by 1735 Shanghai had become the major trade port for all of the lower Yangtze River region, despite still being at the lowest administrative level in the political hierarchy.

On February 27, 1996, Gretzky joined the St. Louis Blues in a trade for Patrice Tardif, Roman Vopat, Craig Johnson, and two draft picks ( Peter Hogan and Matt Zultek ).

In 1837, the American John ( aka James ) Johnson invited the Chihenne in the area to trade with his party ( near the mines at Santa Rita del Cobre, New Mexico ).

At the highest point of the old town the Portland stone and Coade stone facade of the Crown Court ( 1808 – 12, by John Johnson ), the brick Market Tower and florid War Memorial mark the historic centre, although trade has tended to concentrate on the lower land in modern times.

Second, they selected defenseman Duncan Siemens 11th overall, a pick acquired from the St. Louis Blues in the controversial trade that sent power-forward Chris Stewart, long time top prospect Kevin Shattenkirk and a second round pick to the Blues in exchange for their first-round pick, veteran Jay McClement and 2006 former first overall pick Erik Johnson.

The 1996 offseason was again marked by vast changes: Anderson declined to re-sign, Johnson was shipped to the Knicks for power forward Anthony Mason, and the team made a trade on draft day 1996.

In early 1982, the Pistons acquired center Bill Laimbeer in a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers and guard Vinnie Johnson from the Seattle SuperSonics.

Early in the 1981 – 82 season, Johnson complained to the media about head coach Paul Westhead and demanded a trade.

Greeneville is notable as the town where President Andrew Johnson began his political career when elected from his trade as a tailor.

As an unemployed " elder statesman " after the election of 1960, Herter served on various councils and commissions, and was a special representative for trade negotiations, working for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson until his death in 1966 in Washington, D. C., at the age of 71.

He subsequently made a trade for Kevin Johnson in 1987.

Notable moves made by Garagiola included the signing of Randy Johnson in 1999 and a trade for Curt Schilling in 2000 from the Philadelphia Phillies.

Warren intended Johnson to become involved in trading with American Indians, but Johnson soon discovered that the trade routes were to the north, on the opposite side of the river from Warrensburgh.

From this location, which he called " Mount Johnson ", Johnson was able to cut into Albany's Indian trade.

By the time Johnson arrived, their population had collapsed to only 580, due to infectious disease introduced by Europeans and warfare with competing tribes related to the lucrative beaver trade.

* William Johnson ( Nuneaton MP ) ( 1849 – 1919 ), English coal miner, trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician

Johnson's independence was further displayed in 1808 when he defied the orders of the Collector of the Port of Charleston, the United States Attorney General Caesar A. Rodney, and President Thomas Jefferson ( the very man who had nominated Johnson to his position ) because he felt that the executive branch's control of maritime trade was an overextension of its constitutional powers.

Taylor was drafted ninth overall in the 1998 NFL Draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the first of two picks they acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Bills in exchange for quarterback Rob Johnson.

Following the 1969 season in which Rojas hit only. 228 and hot prospect Denny Doyle tore through AAA with a. 310 average, the Phillies decided to include him in the blockbuster trade that sent slugging first baseman ( and known malcontent ) Dick Allen and right-handed pitcher Jerry Johnson to the St. Louis Cardinals for centerfielder Curt Flood, catcher Tim McCarver, outfielder Byron Browne, and left-handed pitcher Joe Hoerner, the trade that led ultimately to Major League baseball free agency.

Prior to the trade deadline, Johnson was nearly dealt to the Toronto Blue Jays for Steve Karsay and Mike Timlin.