Then-Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and Emanuel County native George L. Smith II was instrumental in the college's inception.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

Over the years, Francis Coppola has given political contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party, including Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi for the U. S. House of Representatives and Barbara Boxer and Alan Cranston for the U. S. Senate.

* 2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U. S. history.

Mr. T portrays Santa Claus at the White House with First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1983.

Nancy restored a Kennedy-esque glamor to the White House following years of lax formality, and her interest in high-end fashion garnered much attention, as well as criticism.

Nancy was thought to be closest to her stepdaughter Maureen during the White House years, but each of the Reagan children experienced periods of estrangement from their parents.

In 1981, Nancy directed a major renovation of several White House rooms, including all of the second and third floors and rooms adjacent to the Oval Office, including the press briefing room.

Approximately a year into her husband's first term, Nancy Reagan explored the idea of ordering new state china service for the White House.

After the presidencies of Gerald Ford ( who favored the Michigan fight song over " Hail to the Chief ") and Jimmy Carter ( who dramatically reduced the formality of presidential functions ), Nancy brought a Kennedy-esque glamour back into the White House.

In 1985, Nancy expanded the campaign to an international level by inviting the First Ladies of various nations to the White House for a conference on drug abuse.

Nancy stated in her memoirs, " I felt panicky every time left the White House " following the assassination attempt, and made it her concern to know her husband's schedule: the events he would be attending, and with whom.

Nancy Reagan's official White House portrait hangs in the Vermeil Room.

Upon leaving the White House, the couple returned to California, where they purchased a home in the wealthy East Gate Old Bel Air neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles, dividing their time between Bel Air and the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California ; Ronald and Nancy regularly attended Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well.

Also in 1989 she published My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, which gives an account of her life in the White House, speaking openly about her influence within the Reagan administration and discussing the myths and controversies that surrounded the couple.

In 1989 the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the Reagans for whether they owed additional tax on the gifts and loans of high-fashion clothes and jewelry to Nancy during their time in the White House ( recipients benefiting from the display of such items recognize taxable income even if they are returned ).

Nancy revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that Michelle Obama had telephoned her for advice on living and entertaining in the White House.

President George W. Bush delivering the 2007 State of the Union Address, with Vice President of the United States | Vice President Dick Cheney | Cheney and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi | Pelosi behind him.

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the second woman elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the first to take her seat ( the first elected was Constance Markievicz ).

** Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Nancy Pelosi is the most recent example of an outgoing Speaker who was elected Minority Leader, after the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 elections.

On November 16, 2006, Nancy Pelosi, who was then the House Minority Leader, was designated as Speaker-elect by the House Democrats.

* January 24 The United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ( 107th Congress ) questions Arthur Andersen witnesses including Nancy Temple and David Duncan.

During the 111th Congress, Pelosi was the driving force behind several of Obama's major initiatives which proved controversial, so the Republicans campaigned against Pelosi and the Democrats ' legislation with their " Fire Pelosi Bus Tour " and regained control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections.

Nineteen Democratic representatives voted for Democrats other than Pelosi, who had been chosen as House Minority Leader and the Democrats ' candidate for Speaker, as a show of dissent.

* In a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, an opening sketch portraying U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi includes the House Speaker discussing the constitutional rights of Americans to engage in " alternative or rough sex " and promotes her preferred and favorite safeword: " palomino ".

In a speech on March 30, 2008 in San Francisco's Unitarian Universalist church, Ellsberg observed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't really have the authority to declare impeachment " off the table ".

: At the close of the 20th century, 31 men and woman of Italian descent were serving in the U. S. Congress and Senate – including Nancy Pelosi, who was the first woman in American history to become Speaker of the House.

The highest ranking Italian American politician is currently Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ), who became the first woman and Italian American Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

: In politics, Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman vice-presidential candidate, Ella Grasso was the first woman elected as a state governor and Nancy Pelosi was the first woman Speaker of the House

After the Democrats took control of the House in 2007 and increased their majority in 2009, Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House for the 110th and 111th Congresses.

On November 17, 2010, Pelosi was elected as the Democratic Leader by House Democrats and therefore the Minority Leader in the Republican-controlled House for the 112th Congress.

In her outgoing remarks as the 60th Speaker of the House, Pelosi noted that she had been present at John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as President in January 1961.

He holds a British peerage, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically-elected chamber.

At first approaching the subject through The Republic by Plato, he soon turned to contemporary ideas of socialism as expressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of William Morris.

In 2010, House Resolution 605 called for " an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners ," condemned the Chinese authorities ' efforts to distribute " false propaganda " about the practice worldwide, and expressed sympathy to persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and their families.

During his House tenure, he also expressed his support for price controls, a higher minimum wage, the Marshall Plan, and aid to Turkey and Greece ; he opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Taft – Hartley Act, and the Twenty-second Amendment.

Former Illinois congressman and House Republican party minority leader Bob Michel caused a minor stir in 1988, when on the USA Today television program he fondly recalled minstrel shows in which he had participated as a young man and expressed his regret that they had fallen out of fashion.

The town's affluence would be expressed in fine architecture, an example of which is the Barrett House, used as a setting for the 1979 Merchant Ivory film of The Europeans by Henry James.

The raid had its start in a desire by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, expressed to Joint Chiefs of Staff in a meeting at the White House on 21 December 1941, that Japan be bombed as soon as possible to boost public morale after the disaster at Pearl Harbor.

Election statistics show that, while the LDP had been able to secure a majority in the twelve House of Representatives elections from May 1958 to February 1990, with only three exceptions ( December 1976, October 1979, and December 1983 ), its share of the popular vote had declined from a high of 57. 8 percent in May 1958 to a low of 41. 8 percent in December 1976, when voters expressed their disgust with the party's involvement in the Lockheed scandal.

* March 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg expressed support for H. R.

John Pym, MP for Tavistock, quickly emerged as a major figure in debate ; his long speech on 17 April expressed the refusal of the House of Commons to vote subsidies unless royal abuses were addressed.

Many books and articles predicted a fearful prospect for any future war, paced by political fears such as those expressed by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who told the House of Commons early in the 1930s that " the bomber will always get through " no matter what defensive systems were undertaken.

In a speech to the Canadian Club of Winnipeg on March 13, 2006, Rae expressed his interest in uniting the ' progressive ' forces of Canada in order to regain a majority government in the Canadian House of Commons.

In testimony before the House and Senate Banking Committee in 2004, Alan Greenspan expressed the belief that Fannie Mae's ( weak ) financial position was the result of markets believing that the U. S. Government would never allow Fannie Mae ( or Freddie Mac ) to fail.

Lincoln did not propose federal laws against slavery where it already existed, but his general view of the matter was stated in his 1858 House Divided Speech, in which he had expressed a desire to " arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction.

During the 112th Congress McClintock was one of 40 " staunch " members of the Republican Study Committee who frequently voted against Republican party leadership and vocally expressed displeasure with House bills.

Otherwise he took little interest in the affairs of the House of Commons until 1866 when he expressed his opposition to Gladstone's Reform Bill.

As expressed by the House Committee on Armed Services in report 101-121, the original intent of the POW Medal statute was to allow the award in incidents such as the USS Pueblo capture, but that due to the wording of the statute the detainees simply did not “ meet the literal requirements of the law .” Admiral J. M.

That notwithstanding, a number of feng shui masters have expressed that the feng shui for Government House, which is surrounded by skyscrapers, is far from optimal.

However, some feng shui experts have expressed the opposite, citing that the position of the Government House ( with the Victoria Peak behind it and the Victoria Harbour in front of it ) makes for an optimal place for decision-making, and that its exact position brings wealth and power for all of its residents.

Though Pippin presented Urbino to the Papacy, independent traditions were expressed in its commune, until, around 1200, it came into the possession of the House of Montefeltro.

In a 2011 press release, McCarthy expressed her sentiments on the Tea Party, saying “ It's time to stop letting the Tea Party hold the House of Representatives hostage.

In hearings held by the House Energy and Commerce Subcomittee in July 2006, Schakowsky expressed concern that a report from the National Academy of Sciences showing discrepancies among scientists studying global warming might be " used in a way to discredit the whole notion that our country and the rest of the industrialized and developing world ought to do anything about global warming ".

During the 112th Congress King was one of 40 " staunch " members of the Republican Study Committee who frequently voted against Republican party leadership and vocally expressed displeasure with House bills.