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McEwen and retired
In January 1971, McEwen retired as Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister.
In 1958 Fadden retired and McEwen succeeded him as Country Party leader.
When Menzies retired in 1966, McEwen became the longest-serving figure in the government, and he had an effective veto over government policy.
McEwen retired from politics in 1971.
When McEwen retired in 1971, Anthony was duly chosen as his successor, becoming Minister for Trade and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of John Gorton and William McMahon.
He and Doug Anthony were seen as the most likely successors to the veteran Country Party leader John McEwen, but when McEwen retired in 1971, it was Anthony who was elected party Leader, while Sinclair was elected Deputy Leader, becoming at the same time Minister for Primary Industry.
Having previously directed Sixth District Congressman Bill Harsha's re-election campaigns to Congress in 1976 and 1978, McEwen ran for Harsha's seat when he retired in 1980.

McEwen and January
With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.
He was elected party leader on 9 January 1968, and appointed Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.
Gorton replaced McEwen as Prime Minister on 10 January 1968.
The Liberal Party elected John Gorton, then a Senator, as its new leader, and he was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January 1968 ( following an interim ministry led by John McEwen ).
By January 1982 McEwen was running the SFO.
The sworn office of Deputy Prime Minister was created in January 1968, as an honour for John McEwen, the long-serving leader of the Country Party ( later renamed the National Party ) and the immediately preceding caretaker Prime Minister.
Robert D. " Bob " McEwen ( born January 12, 1950 ) is a lobbyist and American politician of the Republican Party, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District, from January 3, 1981 to January 3, 1993.
On January 18, 2006, McEwen confirmed that he would run in the May 2 primary against Jean Schmidt.
In January 2011 Tammin became engaged to long term boyfriend director Sean McEwen and they married on 24 August 2011 in Italy.
The McEwen Ministry was the forty-fourth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968.

McEwen and 1971
* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP ) ( to 5 February 1971 ) ( CP )
W. R. McEwen ), Frankston, Victoria ( 1971 / 1977 ), and Sunbury, Victoria ( 1979 / 1981, closed 2006 ).

McEwen and successor
Fadden's successor, Trade Minister John McEwen, took the then unusual step of declining to serve as Treasurer, believing he could better ensure that the interests of Australian primary producers were safeguarded.
When Menzies ' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.
But it was later alleged that Casey appointed McEwen in order to prevent McMahon having an advantage in the Liberal Party's ballot for a new leader, since he shared the view of some Liberals that McMahon would not be a suitable successor.
Following Adler's retirement announcement in June 1979, Terence A. McEwen ( born 1929 Thunder Bay, Ontario-died 14 September 1998, Honolulu ) was Adler's hand-picked successor.
Strickland ran for U. S. representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district in 1976, 1978, and 1980, losing twice to long-time incumbent William H. Harsha and later to Harsha's successor and campaign manager, Bob McEwen.
After his successor in Congress, Ted Strickland, found election-related files on his office computers, questions were raised about whether McEwen had been illegally using his House office in his re-election campaign in 1992.
* 20 December – John McEwen announced he will not serve in a government led by Liberal Party deputy leader William McMahon, Harold Holt's presumed successor, triggering a leadership crisis for the Coalition.

McEwen and Doug
From left to right: Doug Mink, Eric Minamyer, Bob McEwen, Tom Brinkman, Steve Austin
Kemper is played by David McEwen, who also appeared in the video for " Her Ghost in the Fog ", miming to Doug Bradley's narration.

McEwen and Anthony
The Senior British Naval Officer Middle East was Captain Anthony McEwen, Royal Navy until September 1990 ( on ), then Commodore Paul Haddocks September to December 1990.
It was obvious that the Country Party leader, John McEwen, was grooming Anthony to succeed him.
McEwen drew upon his connections and quickly had high-profile endorsements from Focus on the Family leader James Dobson, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, Cincinnati Bengals player Anthony Muñoz, American Family Association president Donald Wildmon, Citizens for Community Values anti-pornography crusader Phil Burress, and former New York congressman Jack Kemp, who came to the district to campaign for him.
McEwen had high profile endorsements from Focus on the Family leader James Dobson, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, Cincinnati Bengals player Anthony Munoz, American Family Association president Donald Wildmon, Citizens for Community Values anti-pornography crusader Phil Burress, and former New York congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, who came to the district to campaign for him.

McEwen and told
As a result, McEwen told the Liberals that he and his party would not serve under McMahon.
McEwen did not state his reasons publicly, but privately he told McMahon he did not trust him.
Hudson says ( in his 1986 book Casey ) that Casey was concerned to preserve the Liberal-Country Party coalition, and that he knew ( because McEwen had told him ) that the Country Party would not serve under McMahon.
" Anti-pornography activist Phil Burress told the Associated Press that a race between Schmidt and McEwen would be tough.

McEwen and Liberals
The Governor-General Lord Casey sent for the Country Party leader and Coalition Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, and he was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Liberals elected a new leader.
In the interim, on 19 December, McEwen was sworn in as Prime Minister on the understanding that his commission would continue only until such time as the Liberals could elect a new leader.
Casey could have commissioned the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, William McMahon, as acting Prime Minister or Caretaker prime minister, but instead he appointed John McEwen, the leader of Liberals ' coalition partner, the Country Party.

McEwen and veto
McEwen thus became the longest-tenured member of the government, with the informal right to veto government policy.

McEwen and no
McEwen agreed to accept an interim appointment provided there was no formal statement of time limit.
no: John McEwen
Victor Willing: Inevitable Prohibitions ; Ruth Rosengarten, La Règle du Jeu and John McEwen In Conversation with Paula Rego, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida Paula no Pais das Maravilhas, Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and Serpentine Gallery, LondonLewis Biggs: A context for the exhibitions, Cries and Whispers, British Council
" Miller noted he had no overdrafts, saying, " the score is 166 to nothing " referring to the number of checks McEwen bounced in the House banking scandal.

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