Instead, Carter used frequent, informal meetings as a decision-making device, typically his Friday breakfasts, usually attended by the Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, the NSC Adviser, and the chief domestic adviser.

Wynn and his partner Officer Vance Brasher, and attended Police Academy courses to learn authentic jargon and other details that could be featured in a radio program.

After graduating from Texas Tech University, Husband was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force and attended pilot training at Vance Air Force Base ( AFB ) in Oklahoma.

Vance was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 28 August 1885 and attended the Ipswich Grammar School.

Subsequent to receiving his commission and navigator rating, he attended pilot training at Bartow Air Base, Florida, and Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

In 1980, Vance graduated from Sumner High School and attended Western Washington University where he earned a bachelors degree in Political Science.

Vance attended Oklahoma University for two years, becoming a member of Phi Delta Theta.

Resor married Jane Pillsbury of the Pillsbury family in 1942 in a ceremony attended by John F. Kennedy and Cyrus Vance.

* Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma, named after Leon Vance

Today, the 3rd Flying Training Squadron, which traces its lineage to the 3rd Aero Squadron, trains pilots at Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla.

Leon Robert Vance, Jr. was born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma.

On October 11, 1946, Major General James P. Hodges, commander of the 2nd Bomb Division when Vance was assigned to it, made the presentation to Sharon Vance at Enid Army Air Base.

The airbase in his hometown of Enid, Oklahoma, was renamed Vance Air Force Base in his honor on July 9, 1949.

Vance Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located 6 km ( three nautical miles ) south of downtown Enid, Oklahoma, and within its city limits, about north northwest of Oklahoma City.

On June 25, 1955, largely the result of the recent Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Hoxie's superintendent, Kunkel Edward Vance, spearheaded plans to integrate the schools, and he received the unanimous support of Hoxie's school board.

According to a New York Times article from Feb. 1, 1893, Smith allegedly: " picked up little Myrtle Vance ... near her father's residence, and ... carried her through the central portion of the city ... En route through the city he was asked by several persons what he was doing with the child.

He received pilot training from 1965 to 1966 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

In accordance with its rights under the Constitution, in 1996 the Nevis Island Administration under the Concerned Citizens ' Movement ( CCM ) of Premier Vance Amory initiated steps towards secession from the Federation, the most recent being a referendum in 1998 that failed to secure the required two-thirds majority for secession.

However, the Supreme Court repudiated this concept in Afroyim v. Rusk,, as well as Vance v. Terrazas,, holding that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment barred the Congress from revoking citizenship.

Brzezinski wanted to control the revolution and increasingly suggested military action to prevent Ayatollah Khomeini from coming to power, while Vance wanted to come to terms with the new Islamic Republic of Iran.

After the transfer from the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater to the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Courtney B. Vance stepped into the role of Paul and Robert Duncan McNeill played Rick.

Brzezinski wanted to control the revolution and increasingly suggested military action to prevent Khomeini from coming to power, while Vance wanted to come to terms with the new Khomeini regime.

* Tschai — The sole planet of Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth, slightly larger than Terra and populated by three alien races, one sentient native species and various human races, as described in " Planet of Adventure " by Jack Vance.

Then by degrees he led Vance along the ramifications of the Imperial family, to Uoht and Thale, from Naotalba and Phantom of Truth, to Aldones, and then tossing aside his manuscript and notes, he began the wonderful story of the Last King.

But by taking from Granville, Franklin and Warren, those sections that were heavily Republican and out of these sections forming the new county of Vance, the Democratic party could lose Vance to the Republicans and save Granville and Franklin for the Democrats gerrymandering.

From 1959 to 1963 Vance Hartke and Homer E. Capehart were the U. S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike County.

In 1860, one census district in Granville County the primary of the three parent counties ( 73 % of the land area of Vance County was taken from Granville County ) of Vance County, was called Kittrell's Depot.

* Information about the Town of Vance from Orangeburg County

Cast members from left, standing: William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, seated: Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball.

In an effort to please Vance, whom he had much respect for, Arnaz proposed doing a spin-off from I Love Lucy called The Mertzes to star Vivian Vance and William Frawley.

Jean Giraud drew the first of the two-part last volume of the XIII series titled La Version Irlandaise ( The Irish Version ) from a script by Jean Van Hamme, to accompany the second part by the regular team Jean Van Hamme – William Vance, Le dernier round ( The Last Round ).

Cyrus Roberts Vance ( March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002 ) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.

* Oral History Interviews with Cyrus Vance, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

* The Benson Murder Case ( 1926 ), the best-selling first entry in the series of detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring detective Philo Vance, is based on the unsolved murder of bridge expert Joseph Elwell, who was found shot to death in a room locked from the inside, minus his toupee, physical circumstances which are duplicated in the novel.

Furthermore, another inconsistency was that one of the original premises of The Dukes of Hazzard was that Bo and Luke were on probation, which would seemingly preclude them ( but not Coy or Vance ) from leaving the state of Georgia, much less the United States.

Category: People from Vance County, North Carolina

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

Also, during the first few seasons of the first of Lucille Ball's two 1960s television series, The Lucy Show, cast members including Vivian Vance often did commercials for Jell-O.

* 1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.

The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1958, in which the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis is a central theme.

The current occupants of these offices are District 1's Eric Robinson ( R ), District 2's Jamie Brown Bennett ( R )- Elected April 3, 2012, as the first female Commissioner and youngest in County History, District 3's Vance Posey ( D ) and District 4's Sammy Lewis Robinson ( D ).

The town of Vance was first settled in 1830 by David M. Lindley.

Early on in the town ’ s history, pottery became an important part of Greensboro ’ s economic base, with the first operation owned and operated by Alexander Vance.

In 1954, Vance would become the first actress to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress.

Vance was a regular during the first three seasons of The Lucy Show but continued to make guest appearances through the years on The Lucy Show, and on Here's Lucy.

The first season took place during the period of the live-action show's replacement of the original actors with similar characters, Coy and Vance Duke, after the actors playing Bo and Luke walked out over a dispute about royalties.

Thus, the first season of this animated series featured Coy and Vance.

* S. S. Van Dine publishes the first Philo Vance mystery novel.

Vance published his first novel in 1920, and a well-received play, The Black Horse, in 1924.

According to some reports, things first went sour when Frawley overheard Vance complaining about his age, stating that he should be playing her father rather than her husband.

Honored for her work in 1953, Vance became the first actress to win an Emmy Award for " Outstanding Supporting Actress ".

At first, Wildcat leader Devil Anse Hatfield was the prime suspect, but later, after he was confirmed to have been confined to his bed, suspicion of guilt focused squarely on Vance, but in an era when Harmon's military service was widely considered by many of the region's inhabitants to be in and of itself an act of disloyalty, even Harmon's own family believed that he had brought his murder upon himself.

Four years later, after a brief first marriage and one year hitch-hiking through France and Spain, he wrote a novel in homage to Vance, who graciously declined to share the advance offered by DAW Books.

Shea's first publication was an authorized contribution to the Dying Earth series by Jack Vance

* 3524: Kirth Gersen comes to Smade's Planet at the beginning of Star King, the first of the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance.

The Canary Murder Case ( 1929 ), starring William Powell as Vance, has been called the first modern detective film.

For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.