As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

This continued to be his preference despite the armistice with Korea, Throughout his terms Eisenhower took a hard-line attitude toward China, as demanded by conservative Republicans, with the goal of driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union.

Republicans took the capital and executed Maximilian in 1867, depriving France of the hoped-for Roman Catholic ally in North America.

The local Republicans protested bitterly and, once took statehood out of their platform, not bringing it back until the early 1920s.

Grant's curt response to Johnson in the Stanton matter increased his popularity with the Radical Republicans ; John Weiss Forney, editor of the Washington Daily Chronicle, who had paved the way for previous presidential nominations, took up the effort for Grant's nomination, by first inquiring with Rawlins about Grant's interest in the presidency.

The followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the name " Republicans "; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

Foreign affairs took a leading role in 1795 as the Republicans opposed the Jay Treaty with Britain, which was then at war with France.

Republicans outside the prison took the battle to the media and both sides fought for public support.

At the same time, the Republicans took two-thirds of the national Congressional seats.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, took affront at the black codes.

Concerned that President Johnson viewed Congress as an " illegal body " and was attempting to overthrow the government, Republicans in Congress took control of Reconstruction policies after the election of 1866.

Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures, except for Virginia.

When the Republicans took control of the Senate after the 1980 elections, Dole became chairman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985.

The three Republicans on the Board were all elected in 2009, and took office in January 2010.

The Official split of Catholic Church and State (" Séparation de l ' Eglise et de l ' Etat ") took place in 1905, and this major reform emphazises the Laicist and anti-clericalist mood of French Radical Republicans in this period.

Republicans took the Town Council for the first time in 14 years in 2010, as Camille Ferraro, Mike Hughes and James Wendell swept the three seats that were up for election.

Louise Wilson and her team were voted out of office ( the Republicans took complete control of the Township Committee with the election of Ed Trzaska and Patricia Graham on November 2, 2010 ).

After Republicans took the majority in the Senate, Lott became Senate Majority Whip in 1995 and then Senate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee Bob Dole of Kansas.

He became Senate Majority Whip when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when Bob Dole resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

In 1994, after the Republicans took control of the Senate, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

The Republicans under Thomas Jefferson took control of the Federal government in 1801 with the election of Jefferson as President.

The governor's budget has often been approved with few changes, but since the Republicans took control of the state senate for the first time in 1999, approval has become a much more contentious process.

Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation angered both Peace Democrats (" Copperheads ") and War Democrats, but energized most Republicans.

but the Republicans did not make a political issue of that position.

The issue cut across party lines, with western Republicans and southern Democrats joining together in the call for the free coinage of silver, and both parties ' representatives in the northeast holding firm for the gold standard.

Although Willkie had initially supported the draft, he waffled and reversed his stance when polls showed that opposition to entering another world war was a popular issue for the Republicans.

The poll reveals relatively little difference of opinion on the issue among Democrats ( 85 percent opposed to the ruling ), Republicans ( 76 percent ) and independents ( 81 percent ).

Republicans raised the issue again in the fall of 2003, citing the need for the nation to reduce its dependence on oil imported from the Middle East.

In 1884, the Court, controlled 8-1 by Republicans, granted the federal government very broad power to issue Legal Tender paper through the case Juilliard v. Greenman, with only the lone remaining Democrat, Field, dissenting.

After defeat on the treaty in Congress, the Jeffersonian Republicans lost the 1796 presidential election on the issue.

The Republicans adopted a national flag with a yellow tiger on a blue background, ordered a large silver state seal to be made, and began to issue paper money and postage stamps in the name of the Republic.

Other Republicans have criticized the SLS earmark, which has even become an issue in the Presidential primary.

Political patronage, also known as the " spoils system ," was the issue that angered many reform-minded Republicans, leading them to reject Blaine's candidacy.

This move was met with surprise by many Republicans, who were remaining silent on the Gonzales issue.

In a 2011 House hearing, Inslee said Republicans have " an allergy to science and scientists ," during a discussion of whether the Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act should remain in place following a controversial court finding on the issue.

When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, " Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions ," and, " by the ' 70s and into the ' 80s and ' 90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out.

Republicans picked up the Horton issue after Dukakis clinched the nomination.

Burr's trial had proved to be a partisan issue, dividing the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans.

" Escott concludes that some Democrats were involved, but Republicans " bore the main responsibility for the issue of $ 28 million in state bonds for railroads and the accompanying corruption.

Congressional Republicans have attempted since the 1980s to defund the organization, nearly leading to a government shutdown over the issue in 2011.

Likewise, Democratic strategists have hoped that the issue of stem cell research could be used as a wedge issue against the right, since some Republicans support the research while others are morally opposed to the use of embryonic cells in research.

The coalition of thirty Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, has been given credit for keeping the Sharpstown stock fraud scandal alive as a political issue.

Also, castorfacts. com pointed out that Al-Arian had a relationship with George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign, and for some time leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks: the point was to " show that Republicans can't exploit this issue " in the general election.

Scholars have raised the issue that the Republican opposition was merely trying to weaken a core constituency of the Democratic Party in an effort to damage the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and aid elections of Republicans in Congress.

Political divisions in Virginia on this issue resulted in creation of a new major political group in the late 1870s, the Readjuster Party, a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and African-Americans seeking a reduction in Virginia's prewar debt by allocating an appropriate portion to the new State of West Virginia.