On the morning of 18 December Country Party leader John McEwen publicly declared that neither he nor his Country Party colleagues would serve in a Coalition if the deputy Liberal leader William McMahon were elected as Liberal leader.

As a result, McEwen told the Liberals that he and his party would not serve under McMahon.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

However, on 18 December, the Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen announced that the Country Party would not continue to serve in the coalition if McMahon were to be the new Liberal leader.

However, John McEwen, interim Prime Minister and leader of the Country Party, announced that he and his party would not serve in a government led by McMahon.

It had long been presumed that the Treasurer and Liberal deputy leader, William McMahon, would succeed Holt as Liberal leader.

However, McEwen sparked a leadership crisis when he announced that he and his Country Party colleagues would refuse to serve in a government led by McMahon.

Heels such as Ivan Koloff and Stan Stasiak were used to transition the title from one babyface to another ; " Superstar " Billy Graham enjoyed a nine and a half month reign as a heel champion, as McMahon felt he would need this much time to build up Bob Backlund as championship material.

In September 2010, McMahon announced that he would complete his coursework at BYU, which would qualify him for the BYU Hall of Fame.

McMahon was to find the atmosphere in Chicago almost as challenging as that at Brigham Young, and he would lock horns with Ditka, his coaches and teammates, and journalists routinely during his six years with the Bears.

McMahon started the season strongly, though nursing minor injuries like those that would plague him throughout his career.

Nine days later, Senator Brien McMahon, who within a year would write the Atomic Energy Act and organize and chair the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, made the first public proposal for such a test, but one designed to demonstrate the vulnerability, rather than survivability, of ships.

The British Government, in authorising the letters despatched to King Hussein before the outbreak of the revolt by Sir Henry McMahon, would seem to raise a doubt as to whether our pledges to King Hussein as head of the Arab nation are consistent with French intentions to make not only Syria but Upper Mesopotamia another Tunis.

As part of the introductory patter to The Tonight Show, McMahon would state his name out loud, pronouncing it as, but neither long-time cohort Johnny Carson nor anyone else who interviewed him ever seemed to pick up on that subtlety, usually pronouncing his name.

Nonetheless, McMahon once told an interviewer that after his many decades as an emcee, he would still get " butterflies " in his stomach every time he would walk onto a stage, and would use that nervousness as a source of energy.

On August 14, 2008, real estate mogul Donald Trump announced that he would purchase McMahon's home from Countrywide Financial and lease it to McMahon, so the home would not be foreclosed.

On the June 26 episode of SmackDown !, McMahon told Gowen that if he would join his " Kiss My Ass Club ", he would be awarded a WWE contract.

On the March 25 episode of Raw, Jericho and McMahon lost to Triple H in a Triple Threat match for the Undisputed Championship, with the stipulation that, if McMahon was pinned, she would be forced to leave the WWF ; In the match, Triple H pinned McMahon.

During the Franco-Prussian War the Parisian National Guard, which was founded during the time of the American Revolution, engaged the Prussian Army and later rebelled against the Versailles Army under Marshal McMahon.

Eight plays later, McMahon finished the Super Bowl record 96-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run to make the Bears lead 30-3.

In August 1959, the People's Liberation Army took an Indian prisoner at Longju, which had an ambiguous position in the McMahon Line, and two months later in Aksai Chin, a clash led to the death of nine Indian frontier policemen.

Two years later, NWA president Sam Muchnick and McMahon discussed a unification match between Thesz and Sammartino, with both parties agreeing to Sammartino winning the unified title.

Michaels later stated that the concept of DX was brought about after he persuaded McMahon to take a cruder approach to the companies marketing approach following him fining Michaels $ 10, 000 for putting large ornaments in his shorts and exploiting his crotch around the ring during an on-air interview.

1997 ended with McMahon facing real life controversy resulting in major ratings and financial losses after becoming widely despised by his employees, wrestling critics, and wrestling fans following Bret Hart's controversial departure from the WWF, later known as the Montreal Screwjob.

The son of Michael Joseph Hillery, a local doctor, and Ellen McMahon, a district nurse, he was educated locally at Miltown Malbay national school before later attending Rockwell College.

A number of CIA officials, including John N. McMahon ( then the head of the Office of Technical Service and later the Agency's deputy director ), became strong supporters of the program.

The death of Senator Brien McMahon later that year however created a vacancy and this time Republicans nominated Bush.

McMahon attended Boston College in 1940-41 and later graduated from the Catholic University of America, majoring in speech and drama on the GI Bill in 1949.

McMahon and Dick Clark hosted the television series ( and later special broadcasts of ) TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC from 1982 – 98, when Clark decided to move the production of the series to ABC.

On March 21, 2003, the long battle ended with McMahon reaping $ 7 million from what was later discovered to be several companies who were negligent for allowing mold into his home.

On February 27, 2009 it was reported that McMahon had been in an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital ( later confirmed as Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center ) for almost a month.

Then Tonight host Conan O ' Brien paid tribute to McMahon on his show later that night, saying " It is impossible, I think, for anyone to imagine ' The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson ' without Ed McMahon.

McMahon later revealed that she had purchased Extreme Championship Wrestling and intended to bankrupt the WWF ( in reality, the ownership of ECW assets at this time was highly disputed ), along with her brother Shane, who had become the on-screen owner of World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and the two rosters merged to form a " supergroup " known as The Alliance.

Triple H later discovered that she was lying through a phone call from Linda McMahon and left her at the altar during the renewal ceremony.

On the taped edition of Raw that aired September 3, 2007, Stephanie, along with her mother Linda and her brother Shane, made several appearances to confront Mr. McMahon about the child, who was later revealed to be Hornswoggle, turning into a fan favourite.

McMahon also did not expect two fans, Mani Mohtadi and Jason Cosmides in the audience to sneak a camcorder into the event and capture the entire incident on tape, which was later procured by the WWF and aired on the October 6, 1997 episode of Raw is War by Michaels and Levesque who, in storyline, used the footage to irritate McMahon.

They would feud against the Spirit Squad ( Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, and Mikey ), the Big Show and Vince McMahon, and later the team of Rated-RKO ( Edge and Randy Orton ), until Triple H's legitimate knee injury in the beginning of 2007.

This led to a segment a week later where Austin had pledged a few days prior in a meeting to " play ball " with McMahon, appearing in a suit and tie, with a beaming McMahon taking a picture of himself and his new corporate champion.

When Vince McMahon actually agreed to let them go Michaels appeared shocked according to him, and later went to McMahon unbeknownst to him to explain this was Jannetty ´ s idea only and that he had no intention of leaving the WWF himself.

To explain his absence, The Undertaker was indefinitely suspended by Vince McMahon after refusing to compete in a casket match with Triple H. The match also became a Dark Side Rules match, meaning that any of The Undertaker's followers could be involved.

On October 5, 1999, Russo and Ed Ferrara signed with WCW ; Russo contends that his reason for leaving the WWF was the result of a dispute with Vince McMahon over the increased workload that he ( as well as Ferrara ) was facing, with the introduction of the new SmackDown!

Warrior disputes McMahon's explanation, claiming that the real reason why he no showed those events was a breach of contract by McMahon, in which WWF sold Warrior's merchandise without giving him a percentage.

Vince McMahon later told Santana that his reason for putting him in the opening match was to kick the show off with a quality match, something he knew Tito as a solid fan-favorite and former Intercontinental Champion would produce.

It has been speculated that the reason for this was because Vince McMahon did not want the WWF to look weak while fighting the Alliance, as he worked very hard to put down his competition, especially WCW.