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* 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ( d. 1949 )
As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.
It changed again one year later since the President Kim Young-sam was blamed by the citizen for the IMF.
* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.
President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.
* 1927 – Kim Young-sam, 14th President of South Korea
This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.
The late Kim Il-sung is North Korea's Eternal President of the Republic | Eternal President.
* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
Church members have used the word " Moonie ", including Sun Myung Moon, President of the Unification Theological Seminary David Kim, and Moon's aide Bo Hi Pak.
Religious scholar Anson Shupe notes that " on many occasions " he heard " David Kim, President of the Unification Theological Seminary, refer to ' Moonie theology ,' the ' Moonie lifestyle ,' and so forth matter-of-factly ".
The country's government follows the Juche ideology of self-reliance, initiated by the country's first President, Kim Il-sung.
After his death, Kim Il-sung was declared the country's Eternal President.
Thus, on the basis of remarks made by President Kim Il Sung in 1977 concerning school attendance, the population that year was calculated at 17. 2 million persons.
Kim Il-sung served as General Secretary of the WPK from 1948 until his death in July 1994, simultaneously holding the office of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and the office of President from 1972 to 1994.
After his son won full power in 1998, the presidential post was written out of the constitution, and Kim Il-sung was designated the country's " Eternal President ".
Eternal President: Kim Il-sung

President and Dae-jung
These economic reforms, pushed by President Kim Dae-jung, helped Korea maintain one of Asia's few expanding economies, with growth rates of 10. 8 % in 1999 and 9. 2 % in 2000.
Kim Dae-jung ( 3 December 1925 – 18 August 2009 ) was 8th President of the Republic of Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
An interfaith state funeral was held for former President Kim Dae-jung on 23 August 2009 in front of the National Assembly Building, with a procession leading to the Seoul National Cemetery where he was interred according to Catholic traditions.
In 1998, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung implemented the " Sunshine Policy " to improve North-South relations and to allow South Korean companies to start projects in the North.
Following the death of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, conciliatory talks were held between South Korean officials and a North Korean delegation who attended Kim's funeral.
Under President Kim Dae-jung, elected in the wake of the crisis, the government made several efforts to reform the economy:
Hyundai Asan has faced accusations of being a vehicle for illegally transferring US $ 100 million to North Korea from the government of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
A ground-breaking ceremony was conducted on 17 September 1999 by His Excellency Kim Dae-jung, President of the Republic of Korea and the Honourable John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, which is commemorated by a foundation stone.
* South Korea's President Chun Doo-hwan commuted the 1980 death sentence that had been given to Kim Dae-jung, who had run for President in 1971, and then kidnapped from Japan in 1973.
While in Korea, the couple toured the country extensively, met with President Kim Dae-jung and ordinary Koreans, and he visited the facilities for the physically disabled in South Korea that the Princess Nashimoto Masako had sponsored.
In the year 2001, President Kim Dae-jung announced a plan for creating a task force called " strategic maneuver fleet " ( 전략기동함대 ; Jeollyak Gidong Hamdae ), which will " protect national interests in the five oceans and contribute to world peace ".

President and South
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.
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 President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: " We are not enemies, but friends.
* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa
* 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.
The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.
* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.
On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).
He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.
The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.
In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.
* 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.
Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.
Another complication exists with South Africa, in which the President is in fact elected by the National Assembly ( legislature ) and is thus similar, in principle, to a head of government in a parliamentary system but also, in addition, is recognized as the nation's head of state.
The offices of President of Nauru and President of Botswana are similar in this respect to the South African presidency.

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