Several years ago, the president of the Regional Council, Jean-Yves Le Drian wanted the number to be 20, 000 by 2010, though this has not been accomplished.

To end the opposition from labor unions ( which wanted no training programs started when so many of their men were unemployed ) Roosevelt chose Robert Fechner, vice president of the American Machinists Union, as director of the corps.

Davis wanted to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army and not as the president, but accepted the role for which he had been chosen.

In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.

However, the new government of president Ernest Bai Koroma quickly amended the laws against drug trafficking in the country, updating the existing legislation from those inherited at independence in 1961, to address the international concerns, increasing punishment for offenders both in terms of higher, if not prohibitive, fines, lengthier prison terms and provision for possible extradition of offenders wanted elsewhere, including to the United States.

Though the Federalists wanted neither Jefferson nor Burr to be president, Hamilton convinced his party that Jefferson would be a lesser political evil than Burr and that such scandal within the electoral process would undermine the new constitution.

In 2006, she was mentioned by many sources as a potential candidate for the United Nations Secretary-General selection, but later she stated that she wanted to finish her term as president before thinking about other career options.

Marshall wanted the president to voluntarily allow his powers to devolve to the vice president, but that was impossible given his condition and unlikely given Wilson's dislike for Marshall.

Hamilton had apparently grown impatient with Adams and wanted a new president who was more receptive to his pro-federal goals.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate and met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Erhard believed the major world problems were soluble through free trade and the economic unity of Europe ( as a prerequisite for political unification ); he alienated French president Charles de Gaulle, who wanted the opposite.

Sloan was the first Baptist minister to serve as Baylor's president in over 30 years, had read some of Dembski's work and liked it ; according to Dembski, Sloan " made it clear that he wanted to get me on the faculty in some way ".

Henry Clay helped establish and became president in 1816 of the American Colonization Society, a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa ; it founded Monrovia, in what became Liberia, for that purpose.

With the election of Peres for president, Sonya Peres, who had not wanted her husband to accept the position, announced that she would stay in the couple's apartment in Tel Aviv and not join her husband in Jerusalem.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate ; he met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Ann Winblad, who was president of Open Systems Accounting Software, wanted to know if Microsoft planned to stop developing its Xenix operating system.

According to former NHL president Gil Stein, another factor was that the Karmanos / Rutherford group wanted to pay only $ 29 million before starting play, while the Esposito group was one of the few willing to pay the entire $ 50 million expansion fee up front.

MTV senior vice president and creative director Abby Terkuhle explained that when that show " became successful, we ... created Daria's character because we wanted a smart female who could serve as the foil.

Ultimately, he moves up the ladder at work, becoming company president, only to find it is not what he really wanted.

The U. S. wanted choices in an emergency other than " inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation ", as the president put it.

LHA leaders, particularly Packard president Henry Joy, wanted as straight a route as possible and the route announced did not necessarily follow the course of the Trail-Blazers.

Owing to the success of his monetary policy, he became well known in other European countries, and this led to his appointment in 1998 as the first president of the new European Central Bank in Frankfurt, much to the chagrin of France, who wanted a French candidate.

Down the hall from Medavoy was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer president Dan Melnick, who interrupted a meeting with Peter Bogdanovich when he learned that Bakshi wanted to discuss acquiring the rights to The Lord of the Rings.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

How do you tell a college president that your son doesn't know what he wants to do??

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

Not until Reagan would another president leave office with so strong a sense of having accomplished what he set out to do.

At the time NRA president Sandra Froman said, " When these Bush Administration officials affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, the enemies of freedom were outraged because they fear the Second Amendment for what it really is – a shield against oppression.

On April 27, 2007, Voight spoke about criticism of George W. Bush in an interview with Bill O ' Reilly on The O ' Reilly Factor: " And they — what I hear, you know, talking about our president.

When I joined, they had what they called a Shepherd — after all, the meetings were at the Lambs Club — who was the president, Billy Gaxton.

In May 1993, Colorado Party candidate Juan Carlos Wasmosy was elected as Paraguay's first civilian president in almost 40 years in what international observers deemed fair and free elections.

Edgar Nixon, the president of the NAACP, said, " My God, look what segregation has put in my hands!

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

* December 2 – In what amounts to a coup, Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves the French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term.

Until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, University of California president Robert Sproul did not know what the purpose of the laboratory was and thought it might be producing a " death ray ".

He stepped down from his duties as president to lead what he dubbed the Army of Operations in Texas, which would relieve Cos and put an end to the Texan revolt.

The nominee of the Democratic Party was Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who appealed for an end to what he called " rule of individual caprice " and " usurpation of authority " by the president.

" Nevertheless, Eastwood, in an expression of patriotism, wished Barack Obama well upon his subsequent victory saying, " Obama is my president now and I am going to be wishing him the very best because it is what is best for all of us.

Each year they review federal agency budget requests and help decide what resource requests will be sent to Congress as part of the president ’ s budget.

The UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson ( then president of what is now Tuskegee University ), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others.

Relations between the president and Congress were strained, and Jackson did not want to see the Capitol out his window, though in reality the Treasury Building was simply built on what was cheap government land.

On 4 February 1994 he sent an email message to US president Bill Clinton, which was the first ( what is publicly known ) ever electronic message sent between two heads of government.

In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.