In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

however the President, who would like to woo the former Chinese province away from both Peking and Moscow, would promise Chen nothing more than an abstention by the U.S. if Outer Mongolia's admission comes to a vote.

Former President Chen Shui-bian

In 2004, President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected by a narrow margin following a controversial assassination attempt on him and the Vice President Annette Lu only hours before the election.

President Chen narrowly won the election over Lien Chan.

After the recount, President Chen was confirmed the winner of the election by a smaller margin ( 25, 563 as opposed to 29, 518 originally ).

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General ( vacated by Su ) to the departing premier, but Hsieh declined and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line on dealing with the PRC.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

Foreign Minister Kaliopate Tavola asserted that those who attended the welcoming ceremony did so " of their own accord ," not as government representatives, and that Prime Minister Qarase's presence in the same hotel where President Chen was staying was purely " coincidental.

In January 2007 de Klerk was a speaker promoting peace and democracy in the world at the " Towards a Global Forum on New Democracies " event in Taipei, Taiwan, along with other dignitaries including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and now former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.

In May 2005, Chen Shui-bian, President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), became the first foreign head of state to make an official visit to the Marshall Islands.

Chen Binghe also met President Pohamba that day.

In April 2005, during a state visit to the Marshall Islands, ROC President Chen Shui-bian met and spoke with the Nauruan President Ludwig Scotty.

* June 3 – Chen Gongbo, 2nd President of Republic of China during Nanjing regime ( executed ) ( b. 1892 )

* March 20 – President Chen Shui-bian wins the Taiwanese presidential election by 0. 2 % of the vote.

In 2004, President Chen was re-elected to a second four year term after an assassination attempt which occurred the day before the election.

During the legislative elections held on 8 December 2004, the Kuomintang-PFP dominated Pan-Blue alliance gained a slim majority in the elections which resulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman.

In a twist of events, President Chen and PFP Chairman Soong held a summit and the independence-leaning president indicated that eventual reunification with mainland China would be an option.

Recent allegations about corruption inside the First Family had led to three recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President Chen Shui-bian.

Proposals for reunification were not actively floated in Taiwan and the issue remained moot under President Chen Shui-bian, who refused to accept talks under the pre-conditions insisted on by Beijing until 2008 with the presidential election of Ma Ying-Jeou, agreeing to the One China policy and stating the official government of the Chinese state is the Republic of China.

At the funeral of Pope John Paul II, President Chen Shui-bian ( far left ), whom the Holy See recognized as the head of state of China, was seated in the front row ( List of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope John Paul II | in French alphabetical order ) beside the first lady and president of Brazil.

Under President Chen Shui-bian, pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo and his father gradually disappeared from public buildings.

Although the resulting draft outline of history course for regular senior middle schools was criticized by a variety of groups, President Chen Shui-bian responded that " to seek the truth of Taiwan's history " is not equal to desinicization nor an act of independence and indicated that he would not interfere with the history editing and compilation efforts.

In October 2003, President Chen Shui-bian announced that Taiwan would seek a new constitution suitable for the Taiwan people that would turn Taiwan into a " normal country.

In response, the Pan-Blue Coalition within Taiwan sought to portray President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive Party as radicals intent on implementing revolutionary desinicization that would disenfranchise various ethnic groups within Taiwan who have an affinity for China and the Chinese culture.

In July 2007, President Chen Shui-bian announced that he would allow mainland Chinese diplomas or students into Taiwan during the rest of his presidential term.

President Chen Shui-bian ( 2000-May 2008 ) fully supported the idea that the " Republic of China is an independent, sovereign country " but held the view that the Republic of China is Taiwan and Taiwan does not belong to the People's Republic of China.

The former ROC President, Chen Shui-bian of the DPP, regards acceptance of the " One China " principle as capitulation to the PRC, and prefers to view it as nothing more than a topic for discussion, in opposition to the PRC's insistence that the " One China " principle is a prerequisite for any negotiation.

However, due to the controversies and the alleged corruption cases involving the former DPP nominated President Chen Shui-bian, the public perception of the Coalition is seemed to have been altered somewhat.

Following this claim, on February 15, 2007 Taipei District Court ruled Thursday that President Chen Shui-bian must pay James Soong NT $ 3 million ( US $ 91, 183 ) in damages and apologize in the top three newspapers for his allegation that Soong met secretly with China's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Director Chen Yunlin in 2005.

When Chen Shui-bian became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entitled a " Celebration Drill " and not a traditional military parade.

*** Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁 / 陈水扁 ( 1950 -; ancestral northern parts of Zhao ' an-disputed ; born in Tainan, Taiwan ), President of the Republic of China, 2000 – 2008

The previous administration led by President Chen Shui-bian, who was in power from 2000 to 2008, was keen to establish direct links under his " four noes and one without " pledge.

Although the administration of pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian ( 2000 – 2008 ) did not actively claim sovereignty over all of China, the national boundaries of the ROC have not been redrawn.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.

Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.

A half hour later the Vice President arrived.

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )