By this time, Kekkonen had secured the backing of most political parties, but the major right-wing National Coalition Party, which Kekkonen had opposed, was still skeptical, and stood in the way of the required 5 / 6 majority.

Later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the term has been used in Finland for the post-1968 radicalization in the latter half of the Urho Kekkonen era.

Both armies used child soldiers, mainly between 14 and 17 years of age, the most famous example being Urho Kekkonen who fought for the White Army and later became the longest-serving President of Finland.

The CSCE was widely considered in Finland as a possible means of reducing tensions of the Cold War, and a personal triumph for President Urho Kekkonen.

On his 70th birthday, Nurmi agreed to an interview for Yle, Finland's national public-broadcasting company, only after learning that President Kekkonen would act as the interviewer.

Kekkonen attended the funeral and praised Nurmi: " People explore the horizons for a successor.

During the Finnish Civil War, Kekkonen fought for the White Guard ( Kajaani chapter ), fighting in Kuopio, Varkaus, Mouhu and Viipuri, and taking part in mop-up operations, including leading a firing squad in Hamina.

In 1927, Kekkonen became a lawyer and worked for the Association of Rural Municipalities until 1932.

According to Johannes Virolainen, a longtime Agrarian and Centrist politician, some Finnish right-wingers hated and mocked Kekkonen for the decision and cast him as a power-hungry opportunist.

During the Continuation War, Kekkonen served as director of the Karelian Evacuees ' Welfare Centre from 1940 to 1943 and as the Ministry of Finance's commissioner for coordination from 1943 to 1945, tasked with rationalising public administration.

Kekkonen also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for periods in 1952 – 1953 and 1954 concurrent with his prime ministership.

The crisis hurt the freedom of the parties to compose coalition governments, so that after the crisis, Kekkonen was seen as the only authority for deciding which parties can participate in cabinets.

In the 1960s Kekkonen was responsible for a number of foreign-policy initiatives, including the Nordic nuclear-free zone proposal, a border agreement with Norway and a 1969 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Kekkonen was re-elected for a third term in 1968.

Although Kekkonen was re-elected with two-thirds of the vote, he was so displeased with his opponents and their behaviour that he publicly refused to be stand for the presidency again.

Kekkonen at times criticized Koivisto for making political decisions too slowly and for his vacillation, especially for speaking too unclearly and philosophically.

Kekkonen was largely responsible for Finlandization, a policy that allowed the Soviet Union to exert power over the country.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

In 1981 it was held at Finlandia Hall after the independence day concert, with Deputy Prime Minister Eino Uusitalo as host, because President Kekkonen had resigned in October and the Deputy President Mauno Koivisto was campaigning for president.

At the Federation's 62nd general conference held in Helsinki, Finland, Beregovoy was awarded the first Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal for achievements in space ; Finnish President Urho Kekkonen was the honorary presenter on July 14, 1968.

However, even though the party supported Kekkonen for president in 1978 and became the second biggest party in the country in the 1979 parliamentary election, a place in the government continued to elude it until the end of Kekkonen's time in office.

His father Sakari Tuomioja was a prominent liberal Finnish politician and diplomat, and the challenger of Urho Kekkonen for the conservatives and liberals in the 1956 presidential elections.

On a few occasions, parliament was dissolved if its political composition did not please Kekkonen.

Chairman of the Centre Party, Johannes Virolainen, was threatened by Kekkonen with dissolution of parliament when Kekkonen wanted to nominate SDP's Sorsa instead of Virolainen as Prime Minister.

Kekkonen had planned to prevent the parties from forming an anti-Kekkonen alliance to promote Olavi Honka in the 1962 presidential elections by dissolving parliament.

Urho Kekkonen ( left ), Sylvi Kekkonen ( second right ), John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.

The second time the Soviets helped Kekkonen came in the Note Crisis in 1961.

* The Urho Kekkonen National Park, Finland's second largest national park, is named after Kekkonen.

Virolainen is considered one of the strongest Centre Party leaders in the post-war era, second only to Urho Kekkonen.

The co-operation was broken up when Kekkonen disbanded Karjalainen's second government in 1971.

During his time there Kekkonen made his first unsuccessful attempt at getting elected to the Finnish Parliament.

Throughout his time as president, Kekkonen did his best to keep political adversaries in check.

Laila Kinnunen, Carola, Annikki Tähti, Brita Koivunen and Vieno Kekkonen were some of the most acclaimed Finnish chanteuses of this time period.

The last time Kekkonen tried to raise it was in 1972, but he had no success, and public discussion died out in the 1970s.

Kekkonen took a Doctor of Laws degree in 1936 at the University of Helsinki where he was active in the Northern Ostrobothnian student nation and editor-in-chief of the student newspaper Ylioppilaslehti in the period 1927 – 1928.

Later she became the Vice-President of the committee, which lobbied then-President Urho Kekkonen.

In 1933, Kekkonen joined the Agrarian League ( later renamed the Centre Party ) and in the same year also became a civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Kekkonen became ill in August during a fishing trip to Iceland.

Later that year, as Kekkonen became too ill to carry out his duties, Koivisto became acting President and was able to launch his Presidential election campaign from that position.

Urho Kekkonen was the President of Finland from 1956-1982 and became a symbolic figure of a statesman in Finland.

Vennamo was a populist and became a critic of Kekkonen and political corruption within the " old parties ", particularly the Centre Party.

Vennamo was a populist and became a critic of President Kekkonen and of the political corruption within the " old parties ", particularly the Centre Party.

After Kekkonen resigned in October 1981, Virolainen became the Centre Party's presidential candidate, but he was handily defeated in the 1982 presidential elections by the Social Democratic candidate, Mauno Koivisto.

In 1969 he became the first human together with president Urho Kekkonen and Professor Kaarina Kari to receive an honorary doctorate in Sport Sciences from the University of Jyväskylä.

When Kekkonen became president in 1956, Suomalainen stopped, for a while, using the character, due to an " unwritten law " forbidding caricaturing the president.

To get more currency for her trip to Paris, Slioor needed a special permission from the Bank of Finland, where she met and befriended with Urho Kekkonen, who later became arguably the most powerful and significant President of Finland.