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President and Bongo
* 1935 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon ( d. 2009 )
In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo were elected President and Vice President.
In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then known as Albert Bongo ) were elected President and Vice President, with the BDG winning all 47 seats in the National Assembly.
M ' Ba died later that year, and Omar Bongo became President.
Bongo was elected President in February 1973 ; in April 1975, the office of vice president was abolished and replaced by the office of prime minister, who had no right to automatic succession.
Bongo was re-elected President in December 1979 and November 1986 to 7-year terms.
President Bongo coasted to easy re-elections in December 1998 and November 2005, with large majorities of the vote against a divided opposition.
Former President Omar Bongo OndimbaIn March 1991 a new constitution was adopted.
Facing a divided opposition, President Omar Bongo was re-elected in December 1998, with 66 % of the votes cast.
They were also the sole provider to be operational through the death of President Bongo
In December 1999, through the mediation efforts of President Bongo, a peace accord was signed in Congo-Brazzaville between the government and most leaders of an armed rebellion.
President Bongo has remained involved in the continuing Congolese peace process.
In 1987, President Omar Bongo made an official visit to Washington, DC.
This was followed by a visit to the White House by President Bongo in May 2004.
* 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon ( b. 1935 )
The December accord, mediated by President Omar Bongo of Gabon, called for follow-on, inclusive political negotiations between the government and the opposition.
* December 18 – Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
** Omar Bongo, President of Gabon ( d. 2009 )
Again, Jagland made national headlines similar to the publicity about " The Norwegian House " and " 36. 9 %", this time for the phrase " Bongo from Congo ", originally coined as an internal joke in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the expense of the President of Gabon, Omar Bongo.

President and easy
The Republican Convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio from June 10 to June 12, with the easy choice of nominating incumbent President Coolidge for a full term of his own.
Vice President Gerald Ford said, " While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete characterization from people's minds with a wave of the hand.
In the American version, an episode showed a smiling U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson contemplating an easy 1964 campaign against the Republican nominee, U. S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona.
Those statements were not often easy to interpret, unlike Kekkonen's blunt and sometimes harsh statements ( see, for example, " The Republic's President 1956-1982 "/ Tasavallan presidentti 1956-1982, published in Finland in 1993-94 ; " The Republic's President 1982-1994 "/ Tasavallan presidentti 1982-1994, published in Finland in 1993-94 ; Mauno Koivisto, " Two Terms I: Memories and Notes, 1982-1994 "/ Kaksi kautta I. Muistikuvia ja merkintöjä 1982-1994, Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä Publishing Ltd., 1994 ).
Sergei Korolev, Chief Designer at OKB-1 Design Bureau ( now RKK Energia ), stated after the EVA that Leonov could have remained outside for much longer than he did, while Mstislav Keldysh, “ chief theoretician ” of the Soviet space program and President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said that the EVA showed that future cosmonauts would find work in space easy.
The muckraking journalists who emerged around 1900, like the muckraking Lincoln Steffens, were not as easy for Roosevelt to manage as the objective journalists, and the President gave Steffens access to the White House and interviews to steer stories his way.
Some moderate reformists, however, including President Mohammad Khatami, urged citizens to vote in order to deny the conservative candidates an easy majority.
However, the onslaught of negative media attention leading up to the address " left its scars " on Nixon, and the future President never returned to the easy relationship with the press that he had enjoyed during his congressional career.
Still, this new provision effectively dissuades from the easy resort to the political question doctrine as a means of declining to review a law or state action, as was often done by the Court during the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos.
In 1956, President Eisenhower signed into law the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 which established the interstate highway system, which provided an easy and efficient way for troops to depart if under attack.
President Jacques Chirac's decision to hold a referendum was thought in some part to have been influenced in part by the surprise announcement that the United Kingdom was to hold a vote of its own, though it was also widely commented that the expected easy victory would also be an expression of confidence in the President.
He was surprised at how easy it was to get close to the president — only one foot away at one event — but was arrested in October 1980 at Nashville International Airport for illegal possession of firearms ; though Carter made a campaign stop there, the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not connect this arrest to the President and did not notify the United States Secret Service.

President and re-election
* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years while also disabling immediate re-election.
In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President Mary McAleese.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
Little happened until the beginning of 1886, but with the re-election of Jules Grévy as President and his appointment of Edouard Lockroy as Minister for Trade decisions began to be made.
As 1851 opened, Louis Napoleon was not allowed by the Constitution of 1848 to seek re-election as President of France.
The likelihood of Lincoln's re-election filled Booth with rage towards the President, whom Booth blamed for the war and all the South's troubles.
Critics said this was an attempt to distract attention from a drop in the approval ratings of President Bush, who was campaigning for re-election.
President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.
The President is not eligible for re-election.
* December 2009, after his disputed re-election, President Hamid Karzai announced to move ahead with a plan for a Loya Jirga to discuss the Taliban insurgency.
Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.
In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.
Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election.
On November 5, 1996, President Clinton went on to win re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and electoral college.
* May 21 – Suharto resigns, after 32 years as President of Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament ( MPR ).
* March 31 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.
* November 3 – French President Charles De Gaulle announces that he will stand for re-election.
Medill was a strong Republican loyalist, who supported President Grant for re-election in 1872.
Garfield was not at all enthused about the re-election of President Grant in 1872 — until Horace Greeley emerged as the only potential alternative.
The Ohio legislature had just chosen Garfield in 1879 for the U. S. Senate seat when a faint movement began for Garfield as the next Republican nominee for President to succeed Hayes – he had chosen not to stand for re-election.
The United States presidential election of 1832 saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky.

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