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He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.
He also put at the disposal of Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, who spent a holiday in Venice, a plane that allowed the prince to rush back to Vienna and to face the assailants with his militia, with the permission of President Wilhelm Miklas.
One of the grenades wounded Linder, and as he lay there a contra came up and blew his brains out ...’ son Ben was killed by somebody paid by somebody paid by somebody paid by President Reagan .’” Linder ’ s father has a valid point since Reagan himself had stated “ I ’ m a contra too ”, compared the contras with the founding fathers and the people in the French resistance, and then spent the money, $ 100 million in military aid issued just in 1986 to the contras.
The PRC also broke precedent by not cutting ties until November 29 and spent the interim lobbying for Kiribati President Anote Tong to reverse his decision.
In 2009, José Mujica, a former left-wing militant who spent almost 15 years in prison during the country's military rule, emerged as the new President as the Broad Front won the election for a second time.
Gold Democrats looked to the President for leadership, but Cleveland, trusting few in his party, did not involve himself further in the gold efforts, but spent the week of the convention fishing off the New Jersey coast.
In order to help them, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a new political approach to the economically challenged " banlieues " of France in 2008 saying that, " 500 million euros will be spent on the improvement of French public transportation ( an effort to make the ghetto less isolated ), an increase in police forces in the " banlieues ," a prioritization of creating new jobs for these underprivileged youth, a systematic crackdown on drug trafficking in the " banlieues ", and the establishment of new schools in disadvantaged areas for students who show particular promise.
Thaddeus Stevens vehemently opposed President Johnson's plans for an abrupt end to Reconstruction, insisting that Reconstruction must " revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners … The foundations of their institutions … must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain.
U. S. President Bill Clinton spent vacation time on the island during and after his presidency, along with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea.
Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.
The first democratically elected President of Brazil in 29 years, Collor spent the early years of his government allegedly battling inflation, which at times reached rates of 25 % per month.
Clifford estimated that, in the year just prior to his appointment, he had spent about half of his time advising the President and the other half working for his law firm.
He barely won acquittal on this charge, and spent an uneventful year as praetor in Rome ( as Urban Praetor, Peregrine Praetor or President of the extortion court ).
In Penang, Malaysia, the Penang Philomatic Union had its premises at 120 Armenian Street in 1910, during the time when Sun spent more than four months in Penang, convened the historic " Penang Conference " to launch the fundraising campaign for the Huanghuagang Uprising and founded the Kwong Wah Yit Poh ; this house, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang ( formerly called the Sun Yat Sen Penang Base ), was visited by President designate Hu Jintao in 2002.
In 1816, when future United States President Abraham Lincoln was seven years old, his father, Thomas Lincoln and his family spent a few weeks in Hardinsburg and occupied a small cabin near what is now the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Camp in Hardinsburg.
Jefferson Davis, President of The Confederate States of America spent his last night in Wilcox County, before being captured by Union troops.
Thomas Lincoln, father of President Abraham Lincoln, spent the later part of his life on a homestead a few miles away, preserved today as the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site.
Founder Barbara D. Smith ( Homewood's first female Chamber of Commerce President ) spent two years learning the recruiting, organizational and judging processes from a variety of experts, and ushered it through its first five years.
* James Armstrong, former President of the National Council of Churches, spent his infancy in Yorktown.
* Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, spent his childhood and adolescence in Verona.
Following the War, Holt spent an increasing amount of time at his plantation Linwood, located southwest of Lexington, where he operated a scientific farm on his, and where, as President of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, Holt was among the first to introduce purebred breeds of livestock to North Carolina.
Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, spent much of his active life in Greeneville.
Some of the people who have stayed at the Tarpon Inn include: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who fished there in 1937 ; Duncan Hines, who spent his honeymoon there ; Hedy Lamarr ; Victor McLaglen ; Aimee Semple McPherson ; Clyde Beatty ; Bob Lilly ; and physicist Edward Teller.

President and much
John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.
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.
Congressmen returning from recess say the people admire President Kennedy so much, they're even willing to heed his call to sacrifice -- and give up his program.
Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible and he distributed its military forces around its borders and coasts.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.
Bozizé, who has received much support from President Déby, immediately decided to close the C. A. R .- Sudan border ( a decision which he has no capacity at all to enforce ).
Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?
There is much variation ; often the CEO also holds the title of President, while in other organizations if there is a separate CEO, the President is then second highest-ranking position.
The General Minister and President ( GMP ) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to direct any of the general church agencies other than “ The Office of General Minister and President .” The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church much as the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.
Therefore, while one could argue that Atchison was theoretically President for a few minutes ( though even this much is highly debatable ), claims that he should be considered an official President are surely disputable.
* Justo Rufino Barrios Monument ( Monument of one of Guatemala's much acclaimed past President, responsible for the introduction of the railroads among other services to the country.
That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.
James “ Tama Jim ” Wilson resided for much of the 1890s with his family at the Farm House until he joined President William McKinley ’ s cabinet as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.
The House managers are seated beside the quarter-circular tables on the left and the president's personal counsel on the right, much in the fashion of President Andrew Johnson's trial.
Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.
Similar forms of African socialism were introduced inter alia in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah (" Consciencism ") and Tanzania by Julius Nyerere (" Ujamaa "), while in Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, a much less " benevolent " ruler than Kaunda or Nyerere, was at a loss until he hit on the ideal ideology – ' Mobutuism '.
During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.
When President George W. Bush announced that he would veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, she said, " This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, " We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.

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