Soon thereafter, Sassou Nguesso declared himself President and named a 33-member government.

Five candidates have formally announced their intention to run in the election and President Sassou is expected to run for another term.

He was overthrown by the current President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 1997 civil war.

When President Denis Sassou Nguesso was forced to move the Congo towards democracy in 1991 Lissouba returned and was elected President in the August 1992 elections.

Fighting broke out again in June 1997 when Lissouba engaged militias loyal to former President Col. Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congolese Labor Party ( PCT ) in Brazzaville, accusing the former president of an attempted coup.

Sassou Nguesso proclaimed himself President on October 25, 1997, but Militia forces loyal to Lissouba continued a guerrilla war, the vital Congo-Ocean Railway from the coastal city of Pointe-Noire was cut, and Brazzaville was heavily damaged before a cease-fire was agreed in December 1999.

Denis Sassou Nguesso ( born November 23, 1943 ) is a Congolese politician who has been the President of Congo-Brazzaville since 1997 ; he was previously President from 1979 to 1992.

Sassou Nguesso was an opposition leader for five years before returning to power at the conclusion of the June – October 1997 civil war, in which his rebel forces ousted President Pascal Lissouba.

Sassou Nguesso was re-elected for a five year term as President of the PCT Central Committee and President of the Republic at the party's Third Ordinary Congress on July 27 – July 31, 1984 ; he was sworn in for his new term on November 10, 1984, and on this occasion he announced the release of Yhombi-Opango.

At the PCT's Fourth Ordinary Congress on July 26 – 31, 1989, Sassou Nguesso was re-elected as President of the PCT Central Committee and President of the Republic.

By October, Sassou Nguesso, who was aided at the end of the war by Angolan troops, was in control of the country, and he was sworn in as President on October 25.

Sassou Nguesso was re-elected as President of the Central Committee of the PCT at the party's Fifth Extraordinary Congress in December 2006.

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

Accused of attempting to form a " rightist faction " in the PCT, he was subsequently held in detention for several years by his successor, President Denis Sassou Nguesso.

Sassou Nguesso announced Yhombi-Opango's release when the former was sworn in for a second term as President on November 10, 1984, citing " the interest of national unity and peace ".

Later, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Denis Sassou Nguesso from 1997 to 2007 and then Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the African Union for Darfur from 2007 to 2009.

Denis Sassou Nguesso is President of the PCT Central Committee, and Pierre Ngolo is the PCT's Secretary-General.

The PCT is essentially non-ideological today and is simply based around support for President Sassou Nguesso and his development policies.

Lissouba was ousted at the end of a civil war in 1997 and fled into exile, whileDenis Sassou Nguesso of the PCT became President.

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.

President Kennedy has indicated his dissatisfaction with its performance.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

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 U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

In the Presidential box someone leaned over the balustrade and yelled: `` He has shot the President ''!!

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

President Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation.

William Walton, a writer-turned-painter, has been a long-time friend of the President.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

And the election of President Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of his home state.

Moreover, the President is meeting the Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments.

The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.