Doe quickly established good relations with the United States, especially after U. S. President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

Doe was sworn in as President on January 6, 1986.

On 9 September, President Doe paid a visit to the barely established headquarters of ECOMOG in the Free Port of Monrovia, was at the ECOMOG headquarters attacked by INPFL, taken to the INPFL ’ s Caldwell base, tortured and killed.

* 1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician, 21st President of Liberia ( d. 1990 )

* May 6 – Samuel Doe, former President of Liberia ( d. 1990 )

Taylor supported the 12 April 1980 coup led by Samuel Doe, which saw the murder of President William R. Tolbert, Jr. and seizure of power by Doe.

During his time in office, Taylor ran down the Armed Forces of Liberia, dismissing 2, 400 – 2, 600 former personnel, many of whom were ethnic Krahn brought in by former President Doe.

Samuel Kanyon Doe ( May 6, 1951 – September 9, 1990 ) was the 21st President of Liberia, holding defact office from 1980 and official office in 1986 until his assassination in 1990.

On April 12, 1980, Doe led a military coup, killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr., in the Executive Mansion.

On July 26, 1984, Doe was elected President of the Interim National Assembly.

A former rebel leader, Johnson played a prominent figure in the First Liberian Civil War, most notably capturing and executing President Samuel Doe.

In September 1990 Johnson's supporters abducted President Samuel Doe from ECOMOG headquarters in the Monrovia port district.

As a result, the presidency was exclusively held by Americo-Liberians until 1980, when a military coup led by Samuel Doe, an ethnic Krahn, overthrew and assassinated President William Tolbert.

He joined with Taylor because of a shared hatred of President Samuel Doe, who had killed Blah's wife along with hundreds of others in an ethnic-related massacre.

He is also cousin to late President Samuel K. Doe, a Krahn who seized power in a 1980 coup.

Samuel Doe had taken power in a popular coup in 1980 against William R. Tolbert, becoming the first Liberian President of non Americo-Liberian descent.

The United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ) was formed in June 1991 by supporters of the late President Samuel Doe and former Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) fighters who had taken refuge in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Half that number remain to be repatriated in 2005, at the election of Liberia's first democratic President since the initial 1980 coup d ' état of Samuel Doe.

The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who was persuaded by the then President of the University of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, in 1904 to bequeath funds for its construction.

In February and March 2003, Mr. Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of US soldiers, parents of US soldiers, and Members of Congress in John Doe I v. President Bush, a constitutional challenge to President Bush ’ s authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action.

On November 12, 1985, one month after elections were held, Quiwonkpa, supported by about 24 heavily armed men, covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone, and launched a coup against President Doe.

Quiwonkpa was later captured, killed ( November 15 ), and allegedly mutilated by Krahn soldiers loyal to President Doe.

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.

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 ''??

Division two will include the representations of Massachusetts and Texas, the respective states of the President and of Vice-President L. B. Johnson.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

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

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.

During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.

There is no evidence that President Johnson knew of any illicit activities.

The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.

* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

* Stewart, David, O. Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy ( 2009 ) Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.

* " The Impeachment trial of President Johnson ", Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1868

* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).