President Kennedy's invitation to the Spanish-born master said, `` We feel your performance as one of the world's greatest artists would lend distinction to the entertainment of our guests ''.

On 20 October 1966, President Johnson arrived in Australia at Holt's invitation for a three-day state visit, the first to Australia by a serving U. S. President.

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.

Although he accepted an invitation from President Lyndon B. Johnson to revisit the White House in 1964, Nurmi lived a very secluded life until the late 1960s when he began granting some press interviews.

* 2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan ; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.

President Triet arrived in Caracas on 18 November 2008 for a two-day official visit on an invitation from Chavez.

One of the results was a dinner invitation to the White House in 1901 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

After José Manuel Durão Barroso accepted the invitation to be the next European Commission President, a new government had to be formed.

He chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead U. S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner ’ s invitation to be President of the newly created United Nations Foundation.

Also, in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President Bill Clinton by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was also given a meeting with Clinton in order to diffuse Bouchard's separatist leverage.

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. attended the Inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson at the President's personal invitation and sat in the front row at Washington, D. C. Harvey founded the first Dodge Brothers Dealership in the World.

They met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, to form an international organization that would achieve the unity of all commissions of the world to control the expansion of boxing.

The touring band visited the White House on invitation of John Gardner Ford, son of U. S. President Gerald Ford.

As team owner, the popularity derived from his public persona lead to the invitation to run for governor of Texas and ultimately, two terms as President.

The current Hellenic Republic has long challenged King Constantine's right to use his title ; in 1981, the then Greek President Konstantinos Karamanlis declined to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales when it was revealed that Greece's deposed monarch, a cousin of the Prince, had been referred to as ' King ' in his invitation.

Brock originally stated that he wouldn't go to the White House even if he was invited however, after consideration he decided that forgiveness was the best course and accepted a belated invitation to meet with the President.

On both shows, it was intercut with footage of various Republican leaders describing an invitation to President Barack Obama's health care summit as a trap.

On April 23, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congressman F. Edward Hebert, a representative of Louisiana ’ s 1st Congressional District.

George Price refused an invitation from Guatemalan President Ydígoras Fuentes to make British Honduras an " associated state " of Guatemala.

President Clinton announced his invitation to Barak and Arafat on 5 July 2000, to come to Camp David to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process.

She entered government in 1987, serving as assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry upon the invitation of President Corazon Aquino.

He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.

In 1949, O ' Connor met and eventually accepted an invitation to stay with Robert Fitzgerald ( the well-known translator of the classics ) and his wife, Sally, in Redding, Connecticut.

A series of behind-the-scenes negotiations resulted in O ' Neill issuing an invitation to Lemass to visit him at Stormont in Belfast.

Lemass returned the invitation on 9 February of the same year by inviting O ' Neill to Dublin.

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O ' Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the top of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment.

Stieglitz and O ' Keeffe corresponded frequently beginning in 1916, and in June 1918, she accepted Stieglitz's invitation to move to New York to devote all of her time to her work.

They duly arrived at Wexford in 1169 by invitation from Dermot Mac Murrough Ri of Leinster who was at war with the Ard Ri, Ruari O ' Conor and Tighernan O ' Ruairc, Prince of Breffni who together had unseated him.

" He recalls that, " after I was settled in at DC, scouts from that company came to our " Society of Strip Illustration " meetings to win over a few more of us ," making a " formal invitation " at an SSI meeting, which saw " Dave Gibbons, Kevin O ' Neill ... hen Alan Davis and Mark Farmer ," following the artists " Alan Grant " went across " and, at some point, a certain tall hairy writer from the Midlands.

In the summer of 1930 O ’ Callaghan took part in a two-day invitation event in Stockholm where Oissian Skoeld was confidently expected to gain revenge on the Irishman for the defeat in Amsterdam.

degree of O. T. O., a degree only available by invitation.

In 1850, though the " Know nothings " had recently burned the convent of the Ursulines near Boston, Mother Warde accepted the invitation of Bishop O ' Reilly of Hartford to open a house in Providence.

Influenced by the republic form of government in the United States, over time his frustrations with the government of Great Britain saw him join the Montreal Vindicator newspaper in 1832 at the invitation of his friend Edmund Bailey O ' Callaghan.

Negotiations opened in the late 1960s at the invitation of the then Minister and former pupil Donagh O ' Malley, who had been a class mate with the Jesuit Provincial, Cecil McGarry SJ.

In 1953, the Old Fianna organisation issued an invitation to Ned Kelly ( Chief Scout ) to meet with them.

Hall encouraged Kelly to call Larry Hoppen, who accepted the invitation to join the new group, christened Orleans by Wells, in late January 1972 and for months they would play as a trio, often switching instruments during the show.

This led to an invitation for Wertham to address the New York Comic Art Convention.

The opening sequence shows Hyacinth writing an invitation to one of her trademark candlelight suppers ; this invitation lists Hyacinth's address as " Waney Edge, Blossom Avenue, Fuddleton ".

In the same sequence, the invitation is eventually sent to an address in Eddleton.

While attending an August 20, 2007, ceremony inducting four members into the Alabama Academy of Honor, Lee responded to an invitation to address the audience with " Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Aberhart was pleased, and happily accepted University President William Alexander Robb Kerr's invitation to deliver the commencement address at convocation.

Ken Livingstone's invitation of Yusuf al-Qaradawi to address a conference on the wearing of the hijab led to a four year rift between Livingstone and Tatchell, who described Qaradawi as " rightwing, misogynist, anti-semitic and homophobic " and as someone who claimed to have liberal positions in order to deceive Western politicians.

Wood also spoke at a meeting in the EP sponsored by Catholics for Choice on Religion & Politics in the New Europe and made a representation in a debate to the EP President about an invitation to the Pope to address the EP.

The album notes also contained an invitation to participate in an " unusual scam " – if $ 2 was sent to the band's address, participants would receive additional artwork, lyrics to the songs " Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz " and " Chemical Marriage " and some stickers.

President George H. W. Bush spoke to the World Relief annual luncheon at the invitation of the organization's president Arthur Gay, making Bush the third President to address the NAE.

While Bishop was mayor, the Prince of Wales accepted his invitation to visit the city, and, despite being a Democrat, Bishop made the address of welcome to President Lincoln as he passed through on the way to his inauguration.

He had apparently received the invitation to participate by mistake, in place of NDP MP Linda Duncan who had " a similar email address ".

He visited England in 1853, by invitation of the London Temperance League, was entertained by George Cruikshank, the veteran artist and total abstainer, and his first address, delivered at Exeter Hall, produced a great sensation.

Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host — historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother of the bride, on behalf of the bride's family — to issue invitations, either by sending them herself or causing them to be sent, either by enlisting the help of relatives, friends, or her social secretary to select the guest list and address envelopes, or by hiring a service.

The group has also been involved in other public and political actions, such as protesting the 2009 invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.

Phanfare integrates address book and invitation tools to allow the consumer to efficiently send out invitations to view albums.

It also resulted in Cooke's invitation to address the joint Houses of the United States Congress as part of the Bicentennial celebrations.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July ( Monday ) that Bainimarama had turned down an invitation to address the Fiji Law Society over the weekend.

This invitation Mr. Atkinson accepted, and at the solicitation of many prominent citizens of Atlanta he delivered, on October 28, 1880, an address in the senate chamber, in which he advocated Atlanta as the proper place in which to hold a cotton exhibition, such as would result in devising improved methods in the cultivation of the cotton as well as to be a stimulus to the entire industrial development of this section.

On 7 March, University of the South Pacific ( USP ) Vice-Chancellor Anthony Tarr found himself fending off criticism from Fiji Labour Party ( FLP ) President Jokapeci Koroi for accepting an invitation to address the public launch of the Grand Coalition Initiative Group on 10 March.