In April 2005, President Compaoré was re – elected for a third straight term.

In November 2010, President Compaoré was re – elected for a fourth straight term.

Gbagbo said in July 2008 that he had received crucial support from Blaise Compaoré, currently the President of Burkina Faso, while he was part of the underground opposition to Houphouët-Boigny.

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

He then served as Minister of the Civil Service and Institutional Development before being appointed as Prime Minister by President Blaise Compaoré on November 7, 2000, replacing Ouedraogo.

* Led by President Blaise Compaoré, in office since 15 October 1987

The ADF-RDA supported President Blaise Compaoré in the 2005 presidential election and again in the 2010 Presidential elections.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

President Kennedy has indicated his dissatisfaction with its performance.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

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.

`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

In the Presidential box someone leaned over the balustrade and yelled: `` He has shot the President ''!!

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

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.

President Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation.

William Walton, a writer-turned-painter, has been a long-time friend of the President.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

And the election of President Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of his home state.

Moreover, the President is meeting the Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments.

The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

The talks were mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki.

The December accord, mediated by President Omar Bongo of Gabon, called for follow-on, inclusive political negotiations between the government and the opposition.

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

The American consul mediated between the two sides and in January 1962 final agreement led to the creation of a seven-member Council of State, led by Balaguer but including members of the UCN, to replace both the Dominican Congress and the President and his cabint until the election.

When President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War, envoys from both countries stayed at the Wentworth by the Sea, ferried by launch to negotiations held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

In particular, he criticized the Oslo Accords and the Camp David peace agreement mediated by former President Carter between Egypt and Israel.

The talks were mediated by Riek Machar, the Vice President of Southern Sudan, and by the Community of Sant ' Egidio.

On August 4, 2009, Ratsiraka met with President of the High Authority of Transition of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina, as well as Ravalomanana ( who had himself been ousted and forced into exile ) and Zafy, in crisis talks mediated by former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano and held in Maputo.

Roosevelt continued to try to build support for a mediated solution, persuading former President Grover Cleveland to join the commission he was creating.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

The debt arrangements have been personally negotiated by ( then ) Defense Minister ( and now President ) Serge Sarkisian, Kocharian ’ s closest political associate.

Due to mounting political pressure, in 1991 President Kolingba announced the creation of National Commission to rewrite the constitution to provide for a multi-party system.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

By 1967, when a military junta had seized power in Greece, the political impetus for enosis had faded, partly as a result of the non-aligned foreign policy of Cypriot President Makarios.

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.

Actual political power lay in the positions of President of the Soviet Union ( held by Gorbachev ) and President of the Russian SFSR ( held by Yeltsin ).

The semi-presidential system has been described by some as " conflictogenic " and " dictatogenic ", as it ensures frictions, and a reduction of pace in government life, should the President and the Prime Minister be from different sides of the political arena.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, Richard Nixon.

The effort was a long struggle ; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1 ) the political circumstances in the country had created a genuine duty for him to offer himself as a candidate, and 2 ) that there was a mandate from the populace for him to be their President.

Elsewhere, but lost according to conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro out to Howie Mandel when producer Bruce Paltrow learned Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan.

* 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

A youth protest demanding more political freedoms, fighting corruption and delivering improved living standards forced President Mubarak to step down on 11 February 2011.

Since 1979, President Obiang has been constrained only by a need to maintain a consensus among his advisers and political supporters, most of whom are drawn from the Nguema family in Mongomo, in the eastern part of Río Muni.

During the Era of Silence political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts, who was elected as the first President of Estonia in 1938.