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President and Robinson
His middle name was in honor of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who died twenty-five days before Robinson was born.
President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.
Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
However, it was Hillery's successor, seventh President Mary Robinson, who ultimately revolutionized the presidency.
The winner of an upset victory in the highly controversial election of 1990, Robinson was the Labour nominee, the first President to defeat Fianna Fáil in an election and the first female President.
President Robinson ( 1990 – 97 ) chose unilaterally to break the taboo by regularly visiting the United Kingdom for public functions, frequently in connection with Anglo-Irish Relations or to visit the Irish emigrant community in Great Britain.
Between 1990 and 2010, both Robinson and her successor President McAleese ( 1997 – 2011 ) visited the Palace on numerous occasions, while senior royals-the Prince of Wales, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh all visited both Presidents of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin.
President McAleese, who is herself the first President of Ireland to have been born in Northern Ireland, continued on from President Robinson in this regard.
Taking a page from the United States Supreme Court, President Robinson appointed Patrick Manning Prime Minister despite the fact that the UNC won the popular vote and that Panday was the sitting Prime Minister.
* November 11 – Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
* November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
** Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.
* Vice President – Phil Alden Robinson
* They included Sir Arnold Robinson ( played by John Nettleton ), Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister and later President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information ;
He also criticized the leaders of both parties for failing to address the crisis adequately, most notably attacking conservative Senate Democratic Leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas for his apparent closeness with President Herbert Hoover and ties to big business.
The PHIA is governed by an Executive Board that includes Dennis Robinson, President ; Elmer Klein, Vice-President ; William Libercci, Treasurer ; Howard Wille, Secretary ; and Jack Amrhein, Diane Brazil, Christopher Defeo, Lorrie Erdman, and Ann Palrang, at-large members.

President and jointly
In July 1957, former Conservative President Laureano Gómez ( 1950 – 1953 ) and former Liberal President Alberto Lleras ( 1945 – 1946, 1958 – 1962 ) issued the " Declaration of Sitges ," in which they proposed a " National Front ," whereby the Liberal and Conservative parties would govern jointly.
* 1978 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The next day, Congressman Boudinot proposed that the House and Senate jointly request of President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for “ the many signal favors of Almighty God .” Boudinot said that he
His father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation, served as president of Evangel University ( 1958 – 74 ), and jointly as President of Central Bible College ( 1958 – 63 ).
Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 16, 2002 at the Capitol, and were only the third President and First Lady to receive it ; she accepted the medal on behalf of both of them.
The President and Vice-Chancellor is appointed by the Board of Governors based on a selection process jointly established by the Board of Governors and the Senate of the university.
Independence Day on 21 March 1990, was attended by numerous international representatives, including the main players, the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and President of South Africa F W de Klerk, who jointly conferred formal independence on Namibia.
In August 1941, at the Atlantic Conference he met US President Roosevelt in the first of many wartime meetings wherin allied war strategy was jointly decided.
She became the first female President of the People's Republic of China: from 1968 to 1972 she served jointly with Dong Biwu as head of state.
The NCA comprises the President of the United States ( as commander-in-chief ) and the Secretary of Defense ( as the deputy to the commander-in-chief ) jointly, or their duly deputized successors, i. e. the Vice President and the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Simon Ramo became President of the Bunker-Ramo Corp in January 1964, a company jointly owned by TRW and Martin-Marietta for the production of computers and displays.
At the Geneva summit meeting in 1985, Secretary Gorbachev suggested to President Reagan that the two countries jointly undertake the construction of a tokamak EPR as proposed by the INTOR Workshop.
Klaus was elected President of the Czech Republic by secret ballot of the parliament on 28 February 2003 after two failed elections earlier in the month, in the third round of the 2003 presidential election ( both chambers vote on two top candidates jointly ).
The President of Croatia and the government cooperate in the area of foreign policy, and the president is the commander-in-chief of the Croatian armed forces while directing the operation of the Croatian security and intelligence system jointly with the government.
On October 21, 2011, the Red Sox and Cubs jointly announced Epstein had assumed the position as President of Baseball Operations of the Chicago Cubs and had resigned as the Red Sox General Manager, and was succeeded by Ben Cherington.
As a component of the legislature together with Parliament, the President is also jointly vested with the legislative power of Singapore.
* June 26 – ' Rough draft ' of the human genome is announced jointly by President of the United States Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Also important is the diocese's patronage of Andorra, with the bishop holding the role of ex officio Co-Prince of the Pyrenean Catalan-speaking nation jointly with the President of the French Republic ( and formerly, the King of France ).
* The National Intelligence Program ( NIP ), formerly known as the National Foreign Intelligence Program as defined by the National Security Act of 1947 ( as amended ), " refers to all programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community, as well as any other programs of the intelligence community designated jointly by the Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) and the head of a United States department or agency or by the President.
" As defined in the National Security Act of 1947 ( as amended ), they consist of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office ( and certain other reconnaissance offices within the Department of Defense ), the intelligence elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the Department of State, and " such other elements of any other department or agency as may be designated by the President, or designated jointly by the Director of Central Intelligence and the head of the department or agency concerned, as an element of the intelligence community.
In 1951, to equitably redistribute the prime arable lands of the country, the President worked with the Communist Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo ( PGT, Guatemalan Labour Party ) to jointly compose, implement, and establish a realistic agrarian reform program that would remedy the historically inequitable distribution of Guatemalan farmland, which dated from the Spanish Conquest, the Colonial period, and the military dictatorships.
The presidency originated in the National Hockey Association ( NHA ), which Frank Calder presided over jointly as NHA and NHL President in the period of the NHL's founding and the NHA's suspension.

President and hosted
* Gerald Ford often rode his snowmobile around Camp David and hosted Indonesian President Suharto.
* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.
President Obama also hosted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at Camp David.
In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.
In 1996, he hosted the Sharm El-Sheikh " Summit of the Peacemakers " attended by President Bill Clinton and other world leaders.
In 2000, he hosted two summits at Sharm El-Sheikh and one at Taba in an effort to resume the Camp David negotiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President George W. Bush for another summit on Middle East peace process.
President Franklin Roosevelt was a fan of folk music, hosted folk concerts at the White House and often patronized folk festivals.
On June 8, 2009, Voight hosted a Republican congressional fundraiser, and he also made his own speech within the event, criticizing President Obama.
In December in Pyongyang, to mark the 20th anniversary of Sun Myung Moon's visit to the DPRK, de jure President Kim Yong-nam hosted the new President in the official residence.
At this international conference, hosted by influential Pan-African President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Lumumba further solidified his Pan-Africanist beliefs.
Research conducted for the 100th anniversary of the Treaty in 1905 explored participants ' diaries, local newspapers and government documents to explain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President Theodore Roosevelt's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United States Navy and the State of New Hampshire, as the nearby city of Portsmouth acted as host to the diplomats.
Negotiations concerning the agreement, an outgrowth of the Madrid Conference of 1991, were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, hosted by the Fafo institute, and completed on 20 August 1993 ; the Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, D. C., on 13 September 1993 in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U. S. President Bill Clinton.
The Accords were officially signed on September 13, 1993, at a Washington ceremony hosted by U. S. President Bill Clinton.
After the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine hosted a major commemoration of the 65th anniversary in 2006, attended by Presidents Moshe Katsav of Israel, Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro, Stjepan Mesić of Croatia, and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.
In 2009 the group hosted a dinner meeting at Castle of the Valley of the Duchess in Brussels on 12 November to promote the candidacy of Herman Van Rompuy for President of the European Council.
On 13 March 1996 the “ Summit of the Peacemakers ” was held at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois elected as President in November 2008, also visited Greenville while campaigning for his Senate seat in 2004, in a visit hosted by the Bond County Democrats.
His " Sunnylands " winter estate in Rancho Mirage, California ( near Palm Springs ) hosted gatherings with such people as President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
It also hosted the first presidential debate between then Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore in 2000.
President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club trophy Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949, and in 1951 she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
Samuel Taft had 22 children and hosted President George Washington on his inaugural tour of New England in 1789.

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