* 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.

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.

President Bongo coasted to an easy re-election in December 1998 with 66 % of the vote against a divided opposition.

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.

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.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944, retroactive to 7 December 1941.

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

In 1986, President Oscar Arias Sánchez declared December 1 as the Día de la Abolición del Ejército ( Military abolition day ) with Law # 8115.

Long-time President Houphouët Boigny, in power since the 1960s, passed away in December 1993, unleashing a succession crisis which quickly involved the power institutions of the state.

On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

On 6 December 2006 the Transitional Government came to an end as Joseph Kabila was sworn in as President.

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

* 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be " a date which will live in infamy ", after which the U. S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.

** Emilio Aguinaldo, the last President of the Supreme Government Council 23 March 1897-16 December 1897 and chairman of the Revolutionary Government from 23 June to 1 November 1897, was dictator from 12 June 1898-23 January.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

King in turn yielded the office back to Atchison in December 1852, since King had been elected Vice President of the United States.

Atchison continued as President pro tempore until December 1854.

A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.