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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.
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.
Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.
`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.
Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.
A half hour later the Vice President arrived.
The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.
The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.
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 ''??
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.
Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.
In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.
A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.
Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.
* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )
* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

Vice and had
The majority of those who voted no were Somalis who were strongly in favour of joining a united Somalia as had been proposed by Mahmoud Harbi, Vice President of the Government Council.
King in turn yielded the office back to Atchison in December 1852, since King had been elected Vice President of the United States.
While the terms of President James K. Polk and Vice President George Mifflin Dallas had expired, Atchison's tenure as President pro tempore had already expired when the Thirtieth Congress adjourned sine die on March 4.
He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.
From the outset, Kemp had failed to position himself as the primary alternative to Vice President Bush.
When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.
Pittman's boss, WASEC Executive Vice President John Lack, had shepherded PopClips, a TV series created by former Monkee-turned solo artist Michael Nesmith, whose attention had turned to the music video format by the late 1970s.
On 20 March 2008, Reuters reported that President Guebuza had dismissed the Chief and Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo ( FRELIMO ) and Lieutenant General Mateus Ngonhamo ( RENAMO ), replacing them with Brigadier General Paulino Macaringue as Chief of Defence Force and Major-general Olímpio Cambora as Vice-Chief of Defence Force.
He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.
On 16 July 2012, North Korean state media reported that the Chief of General Staff of the Korean People's Army Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho had been relieved of all his Party duties, namely his Politburo Standing Committee membership, Politburo membership, and Party Central Military Commission vice-chairmanship, stating this move was due to unspecified illness.
Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.
The majority of those who voted no were Somalis who were strongly in favour of joining a united Somalia, as had been proposed by Mahmoud Harbi, Vice President of the Government Council.
As the Democratic-Republican ( then called Republican ) presidential candidate in 1796, Jefferson lost to John Adams, but had enough electoral votes to become Vice President ( 1797 – 1801 ).
Harrison's Vice President, John Tyler, believed that he had the right to become President.
Additionally, it was becoming increasingly apparent that a situation in which the Vice President had been a defeated electoral opponent of the President would impede the ability of the two to effectively work together, and could provide motivation, at least in theory, for a coup d ' état ( since the Vice President would succeed to the office of the President upon the removal or death of the President ).
Harrison's Vice President, John Tyler, asserted that he had succeeded to the full Presidential office, powers, and title, and declined to acknowledge documents referring to him as " Acting President.
The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.
A greater problem occurred in the election of 1800, in which the two participating parties each had a secondary candidate they intended to elect as Vice President, but the more popular Democratic-Republican party failed to execute that plan with their electoral votes.
While this solved the problem at hand, it ultimately had the effect of lowering the prestige of the Vice Presidency, as the office was no longer for the leading challenger for the Presidency.

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Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".
* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.
This could in theory lead to a situation in which the incumbent Vice President – in his role as President of the Senate – would be called upon to give his tie-breaking vote for himself or his successor.
As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as " forgotten " by the national leadership.
For those U. S. citizens detained under the military order, US officials, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, argue that the urgency of the post-9 / 11 environment called for such tactics in administration's war against terrorism.
* Nelson Rockefeller, then the Vice President of the United States, directed the gesture to hecklers at a 1976 campaign stop near Binghamton, New York, leading it to be called the " Rockefeller Gesture ".
* In 1986, Vice Admiral C. Everett Koop's report on AIDS called for some form of AIDS education in the early grades of elementary school and gave full support for using condoms for disease prevention.
Gonzales called Hastert's and Byrd's offices to confirm receipt of the letters, and then contacted Vice President Dick Cheney to advise him of the transfer.
Cao Shengjie, Vice President of the China Christian Council, has reportedly called Gong Shengliang's organization satanic, and has asked that such abominations be dealt with severely for the sake of Christians everywhere.
The party nominated its first candidate for President of the United States in 1892, a decision made in September of that year at a national conference of the organization held at party headquarters in New York City, despite the fact that the SLP's platform called for the abolition of the offices of President and Vice President.
In 1960, he was called to work in the central administration of the Banca d ' Italia, where he became Secretary General in 1973, Vice Director General in 1976, and Director General in 1978.
In the Worldwar series of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove, Hull becomes president at some point in 1944, following the deaths of first Vice President Wallace and then President Roosevelt ( the then existing rule of succession to the Presidency called for the Secretary of State to take that office if there were no Vice President ).
Baby Prinz, Papa Prinz's son took over after Zantafio until he was deposed in 1990 by Leader Mateo Moscoso and Vice Leader Christan Pellissa, former Propaganda Minister and owner of a company selling soaps, and the only candidate at the 2012 elections. Now we are at war with Peru it is called Amazon War.
In 2006 Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Minaret Vice President Aly R. Abuzaakouk signed a letter in “ defense of free speech ” condemning “ any intimidation or threats of violence directed against any individual or group exercising the rights of freedom of religion and speech ; even when that speech may be perceived as hurtful or reprehensible .” They expressed concern about threats “ made against individual writers, cartoonists, and others by a minority of Muslims ” and called on all Muslims to “ refrain from violence .”
HLN Executive Vice President Scot Safon called the trial " a gigantic deal " for the network.
A few months later he ran for the Vice Presidency as veteran UCR politician Ricardo Balbín's running mate in snap elections called for September of that year ; their ticket was defeated by the recently returned populist leader, Juan Perón, in a landslide.
However, in order to accommodate English speakers, the SABC began to simulcast the original soundtrack of US series such as Miami Vice and Beverly Hills, 90210 on an FM radio service called Radio 2000.
Actually, for the first year and a half his office was called " Vice President of South Carolina ," but when the new constitution was adopted, the title was changed to the modern usage.
He also guest-starred in an episode of Miami Vice called " The Savage / Duty and Honor ".
Members of the civil society including the business sector who called themselves as " Friends of Danding " invited business tycoon Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco to run as President and Senator Joseph Estrada as Vice President.
In 1961, Wright finished in third place in the special election called to fill the U. S. Senate seat vacated by then Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

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