Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

In 1968, Lancaster actively supported the presidential candidacy of antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and frequently spoke on his behalf during the Democratic primaries.

In the 1970 presidential election, Senator Salvador Allende Gossens won a plurality of votes in a three-way contest.

Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race as a Republican, to counter the non-interventionism of Senator Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against " Communism, Korea and corruption ".

A " Draft Eisenhower " movement in the Republican Party persuaded him to declare his candidacy in the 1952 presidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator Robert Taft.

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

LaGuardia supported Roosevelt, chairing the Independent Committee for Roosevelt and Wallace with Senator George Norris during the 1940 presidential election.

In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the " Yes We Can " rally at the Johnson Center atrium.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

In the 1972 presidential campaign, Senator George McGovern called for a ' demogrant ' that was very similar to a basic income.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

In 2002, after remarks made by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott regarding Senator Strom Thurmond's failed presidential bid, Lee said that Lott was a " card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

For that reason, they contend Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman presidential candidate ; she was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan, who was trailing President Gerald R. Ford in the presidential delegate count, announced prior to the Republican National Convention that, if nominated, he would select Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

** U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

* January 18 – Paul Tsongas, U. S. Senator from ( Massachusetts ) and one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination ( b. 1941 )

** U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

* July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U. S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.

* January 2 – U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy ( D-MA ) announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

Holt responded rashly, questioning the impartiality of the ABC and implying political bias on the part of journalist Mike Willesee ( whose father Don Willesee was an ALP Senator and future Whitlam government minister ) and his statement drew strong protests from both Willesee and the Australian Journalists ' Association.

He later became the 1st Republican youth vice-chair for the Michigan Republican Party ( defeating future U. S. Senator Spencer Abraham.

When the National League's chief counsel, future Senator George Wharton Pepper referred to the activities of baseball players on the field as " labor ", Landis interrupted him: " As a result of 30 years of observation, I am shocked because you call playing baseball ' labor.

In, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots ' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee ( as the Milwaukee Brewers ) by future Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, the City of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington ( represented by then-State Attorney General and later U. S. Senator Slade Gorton ) sued the American League for breach of contract.

The prosecution team was led by Tom Stewart, district attorney for the 18th Circuit ( and future United States Senator ), and included, in addition to Herbert and Sue Hicks, Ben B. McKenzie and William Jennings Bryan.

Long, a future U. S. Senator from Louisiana.

Senator Ewing secured an appointment for the 16-year-old Sherman as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he roomed and became good friends with another important future Civil War General, George H. Thomas.

American humor, by contrast, is likely to produce a drunken politician, from a local mayor to a Senator – as in, for example, the ending of National Lampoon's Animal House, revealing the future " Senator and Mrs. Blutarksi ".

One of his childhood friends was J. William Fulbright, the future United States Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In 1986, José moved on to join future Senator Roberto Vigoreaux in hosting another WAPA-TV game show, Sabado En Grande, when A Millón was moved to Sunday nights.

Future U. S. Vice Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U. S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there.

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U. S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

U. S. Senator Richard Russell, Jr. | Richard B. Russell of Georgia ( U. S. state ) | Georgia told Helms in 1952 that he hoped Helms would one day become a senator ; an event twenty years in the future and one that Russell did not live to see.

Following the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime opponent of the repository, became the Senate Majority Leader, putting him in a position to greatly affect the future of the project.

Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster ( D-Maryland ) alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U. S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

Lott was also an Ole Miss cheerleader, on the same team with future U. S. Senator Thad Cochran.

After the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act of 1988 failed to become law, Senator Proxmire and a group of senior House Banking Committee members ( including future Committee Ranking Member John LaFalce ( D-NY ) and future Committee Chairman Barney Frank ( D-MA )) wrote the Federal Reserve Board recommending it expand the underwriting powers of Section 20 affiliates.

Maupin worked at WRAL-TV ( Channel 5 ) in Raleigh, a station then managed by future U. S. Senator Jesse Helms, who also delivered the station's well-known editorial segments throughout his management of the station in the 1960s.

Vowing to never let it happen again, and realizing that in a future crisis there was not likely to be another Morgan, banking and political leaders, led by Senator Nelson Aldrich devised a plan that became the Federal Reserve System in 1913.

Dole first met her future husband, Senator Bob Dole, in the spring of 1972 at a meeting arranged by her boss and mentor, Virginia Knauer.

In 1790, his daughter Nancy Ann married future U. S. Senator James DeWolf.