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Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.
The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.
Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.
Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.
That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation's business.
Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.
In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.
`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.
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 ''??
As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.
This is the question now facing President Kennedy: How to put a stop to the Soviet buildup in Cuba and to Communist infiltration of this hemisphere??
We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.
These services at which attendance is voluntary are led by the Chaplain, by the President of the College, by selected faculty members, students, and visitors.
In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

President and on
Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.
Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.
All the dogs would dash to get on the elevator with the President and go to the dining room.
`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.
President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.
If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.
I remarked jocularly to the President that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd day.
On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.
But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).
Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.
President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.
Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.
Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.
Here, at the Ravine Lodge, President Dickey acts as host every year to about a hundred freshmen who are being introduced by the Dartmouth Outing Club to life on the trails.
Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, on March 3, 1910, Miss Upton presented the annual report of the President.

President and record
At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.
Lenihan denied he had pressured the President but then a tape was produced of an ' on the record ' interview he had given to a postgraduate student the previous May in which he frankly discussed attempting to apply pressure.
* 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
As President of the Senate, John Adams cast twenty-nine tie-breaking votes, a record that no successor except for John C. Calhoun even threatened.
* November 26 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US $ 3 million.
Garfield's committee investigated President Grant's wife Julia's financial record.
This is based on minutes of a meeting held in 1907 ( found at the local library in 1982 ), which was noted to be the fourth AGM of the club, as well as a time capsule from 1931 ( unearthed during renovations of the club house ) in which documents record then President and Gen. Secretary of Surf Lifesaving Australia unanimously declaring Bronte to be the first club.
A week later, after studying the transcripts, the paper's editorial board observed that " the high dedication to grand principles that Americans have a right to expect from a President is missing from the transcript record.
Although the Tribune criticized the Bush administration's record on civil liberties, the environment, and many aspects of its foreign policy, it continued to support his presidency while taking Democrats, such as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, to task and calling for their removal from office.
Imagine the Vice President of the United States winking at a pretty girl in the gallery in order to encourage a filibuster !” Barkley thought the film “... showed the Senate as the biggest aggregation of nincompoops on record !”
A significant county court record is the marriage bond of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, parents of President Abraham Lincoln.
Criticism of Rather reached a fever pitch after 60 Minutes II ran his report about President Bush's military record ; numerous critics questioned the authenticity of the documents upon which the report was based.
Progress met the south when President Eisenhower proposed a new road system that would allow travelers to get from place to place in record time.
On September 18, 1948, Dexter was the site of a national plowing match at which President Harry Truman delivered a speech attacking the 80th Congress for its record in regard to the American farmer.
In mid-July 2008, two days after President George W. Bush stated that Congress was ineffective and said, " This is not a record to be proud of, and I think the American people deserve better ", Pelosi responded by calling the president " a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the war, on the economy, on energy, you name the subject " and that Congress had been " sweeping up after his mess over and over and over again ".
President Lincoln reviewed the record and pardoned 265, believing they had been involved in legitimate defense against military forces.
The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U. S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25 – 26, 1876.
He has served as President since 1996 ; he was unopposed in 2000, re-elected for a third term in 2004, re-elected unopposed for a fourth term in 2008 and re-elected for a record fifth term in 2012.
Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor Joseph Lazarow was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for a July 1977 publicity stunt, in which the mayor shook more than 11, 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8, 510 handshakes at a White House reception on 1 January 1907.
Even when the President had ' off the record ' meetings, the Appointment Books contain entries indicating the time of the meeting and the participants ...
( For the record, President Franklin Roosevelt's address on experimental TV at the 1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast.
The claim that Nuttall did not record President Young ’ s instructions on the same night they were delivered is made by Fred Collier.
( According to Nuttall ’ s journal entry for 1 February 1877 “ President Young was present and gave some instructions not previously given, which I wrote for safe keeping and reference hereafter .”) It is claimed by some that the instructions recorded by Nuttall on 1 February 1877 included what has come to be called “ the lecture at the veil ” and that Nuttall and John Daniel Thomas McAllister had been specifically requested to record that particular lecture.
His war record and his great personal following, especially in the Grand Army of the Republic, contributed to his nomination for Vice President in 1884 on the ticket with James G. Blaine, but they were not elected.

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