Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

Operating in 1887 was the `` Valley Telegraph Line '', officers of which were E. C. Orvis, president ; ;

The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.

-- The president of the Kansas City local of the International Association of Fire Fighters was severly injured today when a bomb tore his car apart as he left home for work.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

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.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

Five years later when asked for his view of the rule change, the current president, Stephen Jones, replied, " I've never been more proud of my dad than the night he ... lifted that policy.

To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).

Also in 2006, the president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika asked his Mozambiquan counterpart, Armando Guebuza, to consider the provision of a new 250 kilometre rail connection from Nsanje-the then-current southern extent of Malawi Railways-to the Indian Ocean port of Chinde, near the mouth of the Zambesi.

Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf + Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role ; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, " What are we watching?

" Later that year, Remey asked the NSAUHG to dissolve, as well as the International Bahá ' í Council that he had appointed with Joel Marangella as president, residing in France.

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that this incident was " not enough ," and asked the FARC to release the civilian hostages they possess.

" The Stanfords visited Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, and asked how much it would cost to duplicate Harvard in California.

Stoddard asked his executive vice president of television movies and miniseries Stu Samuels to develop a script.

Only once before — when Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to order the U. S. into World War I — had a sitting president addressed Congress at night.

On one visit, Hanks asked Conan to join his run for president on the " Bad Haircut Party " ticket, with confetti and balloons and a hand held sign with the slogan " You'd be stupid to vote for us ".

" the president asked at a press conference.

On November 14, 1997 at a concert in Belgrade, another Peter Mlakar speech received a decidedly mixed audience reaction ( in sharp contrast to the 1989 speech ), in which he asked the audience to " eat the pig and digest it once and for all ", referring to the then president Slobodan Milošević.

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.

When Thomas Jefferson was elected as the third president of the United States in 1800, he asked Madison to serve as his Secretary of State.

In the early 1960s William W. Boyd, president of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Tarpon Springs, noted the name Holiday Drive on a map near the site of the proposed branch to be built in southwestern Pasco County and asked his board of directors to give the name to the new branch.

There, the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals asked him to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival.

In May 2000 he tendered his resignation as head of the IOC medical commission, however he withdrew his resignation when IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch asked him to stay.

When this " new " man of distinction is asked, he reveals that he inherited his wealth from his great-grandfather, a policeman who had insisted despite all opposition that there was an assassination attempt on the president that evening.

In 1946 American operatic tenor and car enthusiast James Melton started the tradition of singing "( Back Home Again in ) Indiana " before the race when asked to do so on the spur of the moment by Speedway president Tony Hulman.

In fact, when the Indonesian president Suharto asked the understanding of taking rapid drastic action in East Timor to the American president, President Ford replied, " We will understand and not press you on the issue.

On 1 July 2005, IOC president Jacques Rogge, when asked who the winner would be, told the assembled press, " I cannot predict it since I don't know how the IOC members will vote.

President Andrew Johnson offered Thomas the rank of lieutenant general — with the intent to eventually replace Grant, a Republican and future president, with Thomas as general in chief — but the ever-loyal Thomas asked the Senate to withdraw his name for that nomination because he did not want to be party to politics.