* September 4 – Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin

Mathieu Kérékou, ( born 2 September 1933 ) was President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006.

Following independence, from 1961 to 1963 he was an aide-de-camp to President Hubert Maga ; following Maurice Kouandété's seizure of power in December 1967, Kérékou, who was his cousin, was made chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council.

On 5 March 2006, voters went to the polls to decide who would succeed Kérékou as President of Benin.

The operation, called Opération Crevette ( or Operation Shrimp ), was mounted in order to oust leftist President Mathieu Kérékou.

* Mathieu Kérékou ( born 1933 ), President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006

On March 2, 2005, the company admitted to illegally providing $ 2 million to the 2001 re-election campaign of President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, and agreed to pay $ 28. 5 million in fines and civil penalties.

He was fired after President Mathieu Kérékou discovered Biaou's sale of land surrounding the Embassy of Benin in Washington to a U. S. company in 2002 was corrupt.

Under President Mathieu Kérékou, Kolawolé served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1998 to May 2003, when he resigned.

In the March 2003 parliamentary election, his party, the African Movement for Development and Progress ( MADEP ), participated in the Presidential Movement, which supported Kérékou, and Kolawolé was elected as President of the National Assembly on April 25, 2003.

On March 5, 2006, voters went to the polls to decide who would succeed Mathieu Kérékou as President.

Accompanied by President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, Fambaré Natchaba returned to Togo on 5 March 2005.

From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Rural Development under President Mathieu Kérékou.

Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou ( born 2 July 1939 ) is a Beninese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1995 to 1999 and Minister of State for Planning and Prospective Development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005.

He placed fourth in the March 1996 presidential election with 7. 8 % of the vote ; along with third place finisher Houngbédji, Amoussou backed Kérékou against President Nicéphore Soglo for the second round of the election, and Kérékou was victorious.

Amoussou was re-elected to the National Assembly in the March 1999 parliamentary election, but on 29 April 1999, he was defeated in his bid for re-election as President of the National Assembly by Adrien Houngbédji in a parliamentary vote, despite being the favored candidate of Kérékou for the position.

In the last legislative elections, held on 30 March 2003, the party was part of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of President Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential election, and won 9 out of 83 seats.

The second and third place candidates disputed the election and chose to boycott the second round, leaving Amoussou to face President Mathieu Kérékou in the second round, held on 18 March ; he received 15. 9 % of the vote.

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.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.

Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

President Kennedy was right when he said, `` We shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate ''.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.

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 ''??

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

Scholars disagree whether a former President barred from election to the Presidency is also ineligible to be elected Vice President, as suggested by the Twelfth Amendment.

Furthermore, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were repealed, American citizens and ships were barred from entering war zones designated by the President, and the National Munitions Control Board ( which had been created by the 1935 Neutrality Act ) was charged with issuing licenses for all arms imports and exports.

President Bokassa allowed MESAN to continue functioning, but barred all other political organizations from the country.

After being re-elected in 2004, Biya was barred by a two-term limit in the 1996 Constitution from running for President again in 2011, but he sought to revise this to allow him to run again.

Constitutionally barred from seeking another term, he later served as co-chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission and as President of the North Carolina Community College System, from 1983 until 1995.

Gbagbo was constitutionally barred from being party leader after he became President, and at the FPI's Third Extraordinary Congress, held from 20 to 22 July 2001, N ' Guessan was elected as President of the FPI, receiving 94. 55 % of the vote.

He then served as the first President of Togo between 1961 and 1963, obtaining seats in an election that barred Nicolas Grunitzky's party.

Then in November 1906, President Roosevelt barred all coal-mining on public lands.

This move was not approved by Aguirre who announced her intention to resign as President of Madrid in order to run for national deputy as well ( Members of the regional legislatures are barred from the Cortes Generales ).

A two-term governor was also not barred from any future service in that office in the way that a two-term U. S. President is by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, but rather from a third consecutive term.

In 2001, she and the Democratic board members of the commission barred the seating of Peter Kirsanow, who had been appointed by President George W. Bush to replace Wilson on the commission.

The President of the MCC Lord Alexander offered to recall the tour and the press called for the culprits to be barred from international cricket, but Howard managed to smooth things down and the tour was completed.

It also barred judicial review of overlapping emergency proclamations, or ordinances promulgated by the President or by governors, and of laws enacted during emergencies that contravened Fundamental Rights.

In 1909 when he had just become the President of Wilberforce, he was barred from attending an American Philological Association meeting in Baltimore, Maryland because the hotel refused to serve dinner if he was present and was threatening to sue for breach of contract if the Association cancelled the Conference.

Residents of Washington, D. C. were also originally barred from voting for the President of the United States.

On March 3 Ukrainian President Yanukovych suspended his membership in the Party ( Yanukovych was barred by the Constitution from heading a political party ) and handed over leadership in the party and in the parliamentary faction to Mykola Azarov, 9 days later Azarov handed it to Oleksandr Yefremov.

This decree abolished the Supreme Court, made the Chief Justice the President of the Appeal Court ( of which, according to the constitution, he had previously been barred from membership ).

Abba Hillel Silver was a leading proponent of Zionism in America, meeting with President Truman several times until his bombastic manner caused friction, leading to alienation with the White House and him being barred from further meetings and appearing on national television to announce to Americans the advancement of Israel.

Akitani stood as the UFC's candidate in 2003 because UFC President Gilchrist Olympio had been barred from running due to his failure to meet the residency requirement.