* 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India ( d. 2005 )

** K. R. Narayanan, President of India ( died 2005 )

Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan.

Kocheril Raman Narayanan ( 27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005 ) was the tenth President of India.

Elected as the ninth Vice President in 1992, Narayanan went on to become President in 1997.

Narayanan is regarded as an independent and assertive President who set several precedents and enlarged the scope of the highest constitutional office.

K. R. Narayanan with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 3 October 2000.

K. R. Narayanan was elected as the Vice President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.

On his relationship with the Left front, Narayanan later clarified that he was neither a devotee nor a blind opponent of Communism ; they had known of his ideological differences, but had supported him as Vice President ( and later as President ) because of special political circumstances that prevailed in the country.

In the general elections of 1998, K. R. Narayanan became the first sitting President to vote ( 16 February 1998 ), casting his vote at a polling booth in a school within the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex after standing in a queue like an ordinary citizen.

President Narayanan introduced the important practice of explaining to the nation ( by means of Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqués ) the thinking that led to the various decisions he took while exercising his discretionary powers ; this has led to openness and transparency in the functioning of the President.

President Narayanan determined that no one would be able to secure a majority in the Lok Sabha and accepted Gujral's advice ( 4 December ).

One of the coalition partners supporting the minority government ( the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam under J. Jayalalithaa ) wrote a letter to the President withdrawing support on 14 April 1999, and Narayanan advised Vajpayee to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.

In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.

President Narayanan returned for reconsideration the advices from the Union cabinet to impose President's rule in a state, in accordance with Article 356, in two instances: one from the Gujral government ( 22 October 1997 ) seeking to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, and the other from the Vajpayee government ( 25 September 1998 ) seeking to dismiss the Rabri Devi government in Bihar.

President Narayanan in his speeches consistently sought to remind the nation of its duties and obligations towards the Dalits and Adivasis, the minorities, and the poor and downtrodden.

President Narayanan spoke on various occasions on the condition of the Dalits, Adivasis, and other backward sections of society, and the various iniquities they faced ( often in defiance of law ), such as denial of civic amenities, ostracism, harassment and violence ( particularly against women ), and displacement by ill-conceived development projects.

When the Australian missionary and social worker Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burned alive ( 22 January 1999 ), President Narayanan condemned it as a barbarous crime belonging to the world's inventory of black deeds.

Throughout his Presidency, Narayanan adopted the policy of not visiting places of worship or godmen / godwomen ; he is the only President to have followed this practice.

After his retirement as President, K. R. Narayanan, along with his wife Usha, lived his remaining years in a central Delhi bungalow ( on 34 Prithviraj Road ).

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 ''??

The President is deeply concerned over this problem and its effect upon the `` vitality of the nation ''.

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and is considered to be the nation's first conservation President.

In 1915 the United States, responding to complaints to President Woodrow Wilson from American banks to which Haiti was deeply in debt, occupied the country.

Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and is considered to be the nation's first conservation President.

President Keeley wrote a letter to all village officials and staff stating, " The resignations that have been handed to the village board within the past month are very alarming to me as the President of the Board, and I am deeply concerned over the internal strife which has been going on.

When a furious President Ó Dálaigh resigned, a deeply reluctant Hillery agreed to become the Fianna Fáil candidate for the presidency.

Among these was the subject of how one might assassinate President Kennedy, whose beliefs and policies the aspiring novelist deeply disliked at the time.

W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State ( prime minister ) from 1922 to 1932 and a deeply religious Catholic, suggested that the burnt out shell of the General Post Office, the location of the 1916 Rising, be turned into a cathedral, but the idea was not acted on, and the GPO was restored for use as a post office.

All but four members called for disengagement from the war, leaving the President " deeply shaken.

Iraq's President Saddam Hussein was deeply suspicious of the UN, and was loath to do anything that would benefit the country's Shia Muslims.

" President Barack Obama also released a statement, calling Shriver " one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation " Aaron S. Williams, the director of the Peace Corps, said in a statement, " The entire Peace Corps community is deeply saddened by the passing of Sargent Shriver.

On August 4, 1980, President Jimmy Carter wrote: " I am deeply concerned that Billy has received funds from Libya and that he may be under obligation to Libya.

Late in his reign Louis-Philippe became increasingly rigid and dogmatic and his President of the Council, François Guizot, had become deeply unpopular, but Louis-Philippe refused to remove him.

President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek called him " a highly respected politician and statesman ... who was deeply respected all over Europe.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan states that the Bush administration is reviewing the decision, that the Court's ruling is " deeply troubling ", and that President Bush is " firmly committed to protecting and defending " marriage.

He was deeply critical of the decision to abandon support for Republic of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, and believed this played a material part in the weakening of the South Vietnamese position in the years following.

When a bombing took place in central district of Nijrab killed four French soldiers on June 2012, within France the bombing resonated deeply: while President Hollande had before indicated that he might keep some French troops in the country to help with the training mission, he recently announced a full withdrawal by July of this year.

British expert on Caucasus Thomas de Waal called President Aliyev's move to pardon Safarov " deeply provocative.

Raised in what he described as " comfortable destitution " by his deeply religious Catholic mother, whose sole support came from peddling homemade quince jelly in the streets of New York ( his mother once offered a jar of it to FDR when the President was cutting the ribbon for the Queens Midtown Tunnel, telling him, " For when you have company "), he lived at twenty-eight different addresses during his childhood due to constant evictions by landlords for non-payment of rent.

Architectural opinion had turned heavily against Victorian styles and Chelsea Bridge was now deeply unpopular with architects ; former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects Reginald Blomfield spoke vehemently against its design in 1921, and there were few people supporting the preservation of the old bridge.

Presser had repeatedly said he was uninterested in reaffiliation, and AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland had been deeply angered by Presser's attempt to merge with the ITU and to raid AFL-CIO affiliated unions with members in the publishing industry.

Evert Kupers, for 20 years President of the Dutch Confederation of Trades Unions, stated that ' the thousands who have visited Caux have been deeply impressed by its message for our age and by the real comradeship they found there.