Edwin " Ed " Meese, III ( born December 2, 1931 ) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration ( 1967 – 1974 ), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team ( 1980 ), and the Reagan White House ( 1981 – 1985 ), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States ( 1985 – 1988 ).

" Meese and Deputy District Attorney Lowell Jensen later served as co-counsels in the trial of Berkeley demonstrators.

From the fall of 1977 through January 1981, Meese served as professor of law at USD, where he also directed the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management.

During the same time, Meese served as vice chairman of California's Organized Crime Control Commission and was actively involved with the California Bar Association's criminal law section.

Several Heritage Foundation personnel have served, or gone on to serve, in senior governmental roles, including: Richard V. Allen, L. Paul Bremer, Elaine Chao, Lawrence Di Rita, Michael Johns, John Lehman, Edwin Meese, Steve Ritchie, and others.

Levin served in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Beginning in 1981, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan's cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese ; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U. S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U. S. Department of the Interior.

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.

Cruz was endorsed by David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders ; the Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee ; Erick Erickson, editor of prominent conservative blog RedState ; the FreedomWorks for America super PAC ; Princeton University professor Robert P. George ; nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin ; former Attorney General Edwin Meese ; Tea Party Express ; Young Conservatives of Texas ; and U. S. Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Pat Toomey.

Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant.

Several U. S. court rulings confirmed this understanding, including the 1900 Supreme Court decision in Paquete Habana, a late 1950s decision in Reid v. Covert, and a lower court ruling in 1986 in Garcia-Mir v. Meese.

Wayne Angell, James Baker, Bennett, Michael Boskin, Edwin Feulner, Forbes, George Gilder, Carla Hills, Larry Kudlow, Laffer, Ed Meese, Mundell, Michael Novak, and Watts endorsed the institute and agreed to lecture at Pepperdine and to serve on an advisory committee.

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* 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

In it, she argues against making alliances with the political right in opposition to pornography and prostitution, as occurred, for example, during the Meese Commission hearings in the United States.

However, in Meese v. Keene,, the Court upheld the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, under which several Canadian films were defined as " political propaganda ," requiring their sponsors to be identified.

* November 25 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Meese was born in Oakland, California, and is the eldest of four sons born to Leone ( née Feldman ) and Edwin Meese, Jr.

At age 10, Meese published along with his brothers a mimeographed neighborhood newspaper, the Weekly Herald, and used the proceeds to buy a War Bond.

The young Meese also rode a bicycle on a paper route and worked in a drugstore.

At Oakland High School, Meese was involved in the Junior State of America and led his high school debate team to statewide championships and was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949.

Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953.

Meese earned experience in logistics, conducting installation and operations of the 240 mm howitzer M1.

Meese completed active duty in 1956 and continued in the United States Army Reserve, specializing in military intelligence.

Meese retired from the Army Reserve as a Colonel in 1984.

He served as president of the Continental Congress.

The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.

Governors of the 18 provinces were appointed by and served at the pleasure of the president.

He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

Johnson's position that the best interests of the Union were served by slavery in some areas made him a practical compromise candidate for president.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

Throughout the authoritarian period, tensions often existed between the High Command and the five generals who served as president.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

The first Portalian president was General Joaquín Prieto, who served two terms ( 1831 – 1836, 1836 – 1841 ).

Millikan served as " Chairman of the Executive Council " ( effectively Caltech's president ) from 1921 to 1945, and his influence was such that the Institute was occasionally referred to as " Millikan's School.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Ernest joined Textron after 29 years at GE, where he had most recently served as vice president and general manager, global supply chain for GE Aviation.

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

This was the first fraternity to incorporate, and he served as its first international president.

She served as president of the New York branch.

In 1961, Eisenhower became the first U. S. president to be constitutionally prevented from running for re-election to the office, having served the maximum two terms allowed.

Several women who were not presidents ' wives have served as First Lady, as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the First Lady herself.

He served as president of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank ; and as chargé d ' affaires for the Dominican Republic.

He also served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.

He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.