but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

* Senator John Gorton ( LP ), Minister for Works and Minister in Charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

Heinz was the grandfather of H. J. Heinz II, great-grandfather of U. S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania in the United States and great-great grandfather of Henry John Heinz IV, Andre Thierstein Heinz and Christopher Drake Heinz.

Monaghan based former councillor Catherine Martin defeated Down based Dr John Barry and former Senator Mark Dearey to the post of Deputy Leader on 11 June 2011 during the party's annual convention.

Also attending the same meeting were Senator Dick Durbin and John Boehner ; the same day ( trade effective the next day ), Durbin sold mutual-fund shares worth $ 42, 696, and reinvested it all with Warren Buffett.

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war ; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.

This idea is sometimes paired with the claim that Hanson was actually a black man, using a photograph of Senator John Hanson of Liberia to support the claim.

* John Walker ( Virginia politician ) ( 1744 – 1809 ), U. S. Senator, public official, and soldier

* John Williams Walker ( 1783 – 1823 ), U. S. Senator from Alabama

In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.

The next year Senator John F. Kennedy helped fund the program, which trained some 70 % of the top leaders of the new nation, including the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist Wangari Maathai.

Jokes in the script, mostly written by Glen MacDonough, called for explicit references to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.

He stated in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not " artificially hold < nowiki ></ nowiki > George W. Bush and John Kerry ' equally ' accountable " to the public interest, and that complaints from Bush supporters were an attempt to " get away with ... renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry.

Subsequent holders of the title have included her successor as Irish president Mary McAleese, Professor John F. Larkin Q. C., Irish Human Rights Commissioner and prominent pro-choice activist Senator Ivana Bacik.

Prior to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's selection of Senator John Edwards, Vilsack was thought to be high on the list of potential running mates for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

During the 2004 United States presidential election, Astin backed Senator John Kerry and participated in Kerry's campaign rally in Portland, Oregon, as the opening speaker.

The Americans for Democratic Action, a prominent liberal organization, rates Kerry's voting record better than that of Senator Edward Kennedy ( D-MA ), causing Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie to joke, " Who would have guessed it?

On November 3, 2004, Faneuil Hall was the site of Senator John Kerry's concession speech in the 2004 presidential election.

# What about Senator Kerry's point, the comparison he drew between the priorities of going after Osama bin Laden and going after Saddam Hussein?

Senator Fulbright's opening statement was appreciative of Kerry's views, and also mentioned a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision, subsequently reversed, which ruled that Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the group for which Kerry was a leader and spokesman, did not have a constitutional right to use the National Mall.

The 2004 headquarters for Senator John Kerry's campaign for President was located in a building on McPherson Square.

This histrionic, often specious and deeply sad film does not do much more damage to Senator John Kerry's reputation than have the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's negative ads, which have flooded television markets in almost every swing state.

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry is a documentary film on U. S. Senator John Kerry's military service during the Vietnam War and his subsequent participation in the peace movement.

" Miller had also criticized Kerry's record on national defense issues during his speech, prompting Matthews to ask if the Senator believed that Kerry did not want to " defend the country.

On October 7, 2003, along with Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey's 8th Congressional District, Adler formally endorsed Senator John Kerry for President and became the Co-Chairman of John Kerry's campaign in the Garden State.

Because of this endorsement for Kerry, and Kerry's decisive win in the Democratic Primary, Adler was rumored to be the frontrunner for U. S. Attorney for New Jersey if the Senator from Massachusetts had won the 2004 presidential election.

Later, during the General Election, Klain was heavily involved behind the scenes in John Kerry's campaign and is widely credited for his role in preparing Senator Kerry for a strong performance in the debates against President George W. Bush, which gave Kerry a significant boost in the polls.

" In the late 1980s, an investigator for Senator John Kerry's committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, interviewing drug traffickers in a West Miami prison kept hearing about the Mansurs.

The Weld and Kerry campaigns agreed to eight debates and a spending cap of $ 6. 9 million negotiated at Senator Kerry's Beacon Hill home on August 7 ; Senator Kerry later mortgaged his house to raise funds in October.

On September 2, 2003, the Yorktown served as the backdrop for the formal announcement of Senator John Kerry's candidacy as he sought, and ultimately won, the Democratic nomination for President of the United States for the 2004 election.

Classic examples of this came in 1988, when Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis chose experienced Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and 2008, when Republican candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

On July 9, 1992, Clinton chose Tennessee Senator and former 1988 Presidential candidate Al Gore to be his running mate.

" ( In 1988, Lloyd Bentsen, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of " Lyndon's law ," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis ' loss to George H. W. Bush.

The April 25, 1988 issue of The New Yorker carried an interview with retired Air Force Reserve Major General and former US Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, who said he repeatedly asked his friend General LeMay if he ( Goldwater ) might have access to the secret " Blue Room " at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, alleged by numerous Goldwater constituents to contain UFO evidence.

The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland () and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper.

The April 25, 1988 issue of The New Yorker carried an interview where Senator Barry Goldwater, who had a deep interest in UFOs, said he repeatedly asked his friend, Gen. Curtis LeMay, if there was any truth to the rumors that UFO evidence was stored in a secret room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

* John J. Williams ( senator ) ( 1904 – 1988 ), U. S. Senator from Delaware

After the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act of 1988 failed to become law, Senator Proxmire and a group of senior House Banking Committee members ( including future Committee Ranking Member John LaFalce ( D-NY ) and future Committee Chairman Barney Frank ( D-MA )) wrote the Federal Reserve Board recommending it expand the underwriting powers of Section 20 affiliates.

Similar to Senator Proxmire in 1988, Representative Leach responded to the House ’ s inaction on his Glass-Steagall “ repeal ” bill by writing the Federal Reserve Board in June 1996 encouraging it to increase the limit on Section 20 affiliate bank-ineligible revenue.

He served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado ( 1975 – 1987 ), and ran in the U. S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until various news organizations reported that he was having an extramarital affair.

" In 1988, when that cable was declassified, it revealed " there was a continuing uncertainty as to final decision, which would have to await Secretary McNamara's recommendation and the views of Congressional leaders, particularly the views of Senator

In 1988, he ran for the same US Senate seat that his father and his mother previously held, but was defeated by incumbent Independent-Republican Senator David Durenberger.

* American politician Gary Hart ( born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936 ), who served as a United States Senator ( 1974 – 1980 ) and was a two-time candidate for President of the United States ( 1984, 1988 ), was raised as a member of the Church of the Nazarene ; married Oletha Ludwig, the daughter of the General Secretary of the denomination ; and also graduated from Southern Nazarene University ;

He was not happy as a U. S. Senator ; he wrote an April 1988 piece in The New York Times Magazine, " Why I'm Quitting the Senate ", in which he complained of " bickering and protracted paralysis ".

In 1988 Governor Michael Dukakis ( Massachusetts ) chose Bentsen to be his running mate in that year's presidential election, beating out Ohio Senator John Glenn, who was considered the early favorite.

Despite support from many colleagues, including ultimate 1988 Democratic candidate, Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, Bumpers decided to not seek the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

The Holden VN Commodore of 1988 and subsequent second generation models took their bodywork from the larger Opel Senator B and new Opel Omega A.

A new postal building was dedicated on May 29, 1988, by then U. S. Senator David Hampton Pryor.

Convinced by Japanese-American farmers in Central Valley to support redress, Senator Wilson co-sponsored the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

Senator Alan Cranston, then chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, both expanded the VA eligibility law in 1988 and authored a companion bill to expand the POW Medal statute.

Bill Owens served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1982 until 1988, and as a State Senator from 1988 to 1994, representing Aurora and Arapahoe County.