Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud as US president Clinton waves during the State of the Union address in 1997.

* Spencer Houghton Cone ( born 1785 ), US Baptist minister and president of the American and Foreign Bible Society

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

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.

" He also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 from president George H. W. Bush.

Holt during a visit to US president Lyndon B. Johnson 1 June 1967

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

* Sani Abacha: US $ 2 – 5 billion of government assets laundered through banks in the UK, Luxembourg, Jersey ( Channel Islands ), and Switzerland, by the president of Nigeria.

Former US president Jimmy Carter made a visit to Pyongyang in June 1994 in which he met with Kim and returned proclaiming that he had settled the nuclear question.

Network effects were a central theme in the arguments of Theodore Vail, the first post patent president of Bell Telephone, in gaining a monopoly on US telephone services.

The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president ( and former Director of Central Intelligence ) George H. W. Bush in 1989.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president who played a leading role in the instigating the Yugoslav Wars, was ousted from power and the US officially reopened it's embassy in the Serbia and Montenegro.

US president John F. Kennedy led his sailors swimming island to island after his torpedo boat was sunk in World War II.

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.

But in the same month, US president Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Natural Law Party did not run a candidate for president in the 2004 U. S. election and Hagelin went on to create an organization called the US Peace Government.

* Lewinsky scandal – US president Bill Clinton was caught in a media-frenzied scandal involving inappropriate relations with a White House intern Monica Lewinsky, first announced on 21 January 1998.

Bisbee-Douglas International Airport in Arizona was declared " the first international airport of the Americas " by US president Roosevelt.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

Image: US Navy 031029-N-6236G-001 A painting of President John Adams ( 1735-1826 ), 2nd president of the United States, by Asher B. Durand ( 1767-1845 )- crop. jpg | John Adams

Image: US Navy 031029-N-6236G-001 A painting of President John Adams ( 1735-1826 ), 2nd president of the United States, by Asher B. Durand ( 1767-1845 )- crop. jpg | John Adams ( Massachusetts )

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson acknowledges that terminology used in the Church's social teachings needs glossing for US audiences where the adjective social may have a negative connotation of collective arrogation of responsibility for individual well-being.

* 1974 – 10, 000 march in Washington, D. C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".

US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

** Richard Baxter ( US Episcopal Church )

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

That same year, while giving an interview to US journalist Richard Stengel, de Klerk was asked whether South Africa had turned out the way he envisioned it back in 1990.

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

After US President Richard Nixon made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place between the two countries.

* 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

* Richard Kane in the 1985 US / Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40, 000 more troops before Christmas

* 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion ".

* 1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

* He is also related to the Confederate Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Nelson Pendelton Lee, and Richard L. Page ; and to US Admiral Samuel P. Lee.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.