At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

Horton Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback following a recent illness.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Some of the framers of the US Constitution may have conceived of the president as being an elected constitutional monarch, as the term was understood in their time, following Montesquieu's account of the separation of powers.

The following week, Ross McCollum, president of the National Oil Company, wrote an open letter to Dabney House stating that in light of their actions he had decided not to donate one million dollars to Caltech.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Colonel Azali Assoumani became president following a military coup in 1999.

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

The uprising took place in Cairo, Alexandria, and in other cities in Egypt, following the Tunisian revolution that resulted in the overthrow of the long-time Tunisian president.

A few days later Zoff resigned, following strong criticism from A. C. Milan president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.

Durán Ballén's vice president, Alberto Dahik, was the architect of the administration's economic policies, but in 1995, Dahik fled the country to avoid prosecution on corruption charges following a heated political battle with the opposition.

The fourth president was Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, the President of Egypt since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

The president is required to appoint a deputy, and a commission will draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election.

The council is intended to be transitional, surrendering its state powers to the president following the election in May.

However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.

He also served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.

Between early August 1994 when Rawlings became ECOWAS chairman and the end of the following October, the Ghanaian president visited Nigeria three times to discuss the peace process in Liberia and measures to restore democracy in that country.

" The following day the PM was taken to meet with the president where he said: " I will not resign because I was democratically elected.

The mission was halted by the Angolan Government, following a politico-military crisis that led to the ousting of the interim president of Guinea-Bissau, Raimundo Pereira, and the prime minister, Gomes Júnior.

In North Korea, Kim Il-sung was named " eternal president " following his death and the presidency was abolished.

Wells, as president of the International PEN ( Poets, Essayists, Novelists ), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

Eisenhower made greater use of press conferences than any prior president, holding almost 200 in his two terms.

It is notable that some presidential systems, while not providing for collective executive accountability to the legislature, may require legislative approval for individuals prior to their assumption of cabinet office and empower the legislature to remove a president from office ( for example, in the United States of America ).

Ahmet Zogu was elected president for a term of seven years by the National Assembly, prior to his proclamation King of Albanians.

He was consequently impeached in 1996, and an interim president, Norbert Ratsirahonana, was appointed for the three months prior to the next presidential election.

He hired one of Ronald Reagan's former campaign aides, Linda Goodson Robinson ( the wife of American Express president James Robinson ) to launch a public relations campaign prior to the trial.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan says her last goodbye to President Ronald Reagan on June 11, 2004, prior to the interment and concluding a Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | week-long state funeral for the president.

* 1963 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy five days prior.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

** The president may also refer the law for review to the Constitutional Council prior to promulgation.

In practice, this has been interpreted as meaning that the executive branch is free to negotiate and sign a treaty, but its ratification by the president is contingent upon the prior approval of Congress.

Under the system in place in 1796, electors had two votes, but both were for president ; the runner-up in the presidential race was elected vice-president ( this was prior to the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, which, in accommodating the notion of running mate, required that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president ).

As the Germans started to retreat on 18 September 1944, Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic prior to Soviet occupation, assumed the responsibilities of president ( as dictated in the Constitution ) and appointed a new government while seeking recognition from the Allies.

In 1976 a midnight screening of the film was organised by Atlantic Records prior to its release, at which label president Ahmet Ertegün reportedly fell asleep.

However, prior to that, Somoza worked out an agreement allowing him to stand for re-election in 1974 ; he would be replaced as president by a three-man junta consisting of two Liberals and one Conservative while retaining control of the National Guard.

In November of 1933, the minister Goebbels nominated me president of the Reichsmusikkammer without obtaining my prior agreement.

Chicoine and his wife are alumni of SDSU, and prior to becoming president he was Vice President for Economic Development and Technology at the University of Illinois.

In January 1977, four years prior to becoming president, Reagan bluntly stated, in a conversation with Richard V. Allen, his basic expectation in relation to the Cold War.

On two occasions, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama addressed large audiences prior to their election as president.

Brother to William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Colonel Whipple renamed the town " Jefferson " four years prior to Thomas Jefferson's election as president.

In addition to serving as president of his church, Strang also served as the self-proclaimed king of a now-defunct ecclesiastical monarchy he established on Beaver Island, Michigan, and also served 1 terms in the Michigan House of Representatives prior to his murder in 1856 at the hands of two disgruntled followers.

The Charter retains many features of the prior government: the 5-member town council headed by a council president ; an elected town clerk ; and a Finance Board and an annual Financial Town Meeting.

He was elected as president of the society for four consecutive two-year terms prior to his death.

MCA Records president Al Bergamo listened to the album prior to release and claimed that it was " anti-parent ", although he never cited a specific lyric that led him to that conclusion.