While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.

While in Washington, Doubleday remained a loyal Republican and staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

While Djibouti ’ s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has close ties with Ethiopia ’ s ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), he has tried to maintain an even hand, developing relations with Eritrea.

While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow.

While the terms of President James K. Polk and Vice President George Mifflin Dallas had expired, Atchison's tenure as President pro tempore had already expired when the Thirtieth Congress adjourned sine die on March 4.

While Snake is forced to fight with a prisoner named Slag ( Ox Baker ), Brain and Maggie trick the Duke's men into letting them see the President.

While he was in Pakistan Prison, Syed Nazrul Islam was the acting President with Tazuddin Ahmed as the Prime Minister.

While Fine Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of President.

While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, this is a largely ceremonial position with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach ( prime minister ) who is the head of the government.

While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, the evidence is disputed as to whether he authorized the diversion of the money raised by the Iranian arms sales to the Contras.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

While an influx of new residents from different cultures presents some challenges, " the United States has always been energized by its immigrant populations ," said President Bill Clinton in 1998.

While it did not authorize the forced removal of the indigenous tribes, it authorized the President to negotiate land exchange treaties with tribes located in lands of the United States.

While faculty committees assert substantial control over many areas of MIT's curriculum, research, student life, and administrative affairs, the chair of each of MIT's 32 academic departments reports to the dean of that department's school, who in turn reports to the Provost under the President.

While some advocated a reformist transition to a constitutional monarchy, most revolutionaries advocated republicanism, hoping to overthrow the Emperor and replace him with a democratically elected President.

While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.

* 1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

* 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.

While Peru was previously marked by terrorism, hyperinflation, and government intervention in the economy, the Government of Peru under former President Alberto Fujimori took the steps necessary to bring those problems under control.

While the Philippines ' relationship with the United States remains strong, the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has sought to establish closer ties to its earlier colonizer, Spain.

While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, George H. W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as " voodoo economics ".

While Section 4 has never been invoked, Section 3 has been invoked three times: on July 13, 1985 when Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove cancerous polyps from his colon, and twice more on June 29, 2002 and July 21, 2007 when George W. Bush underwent colonoscopy procedures requiring sedation.

While the north ( Oak Harbor ) is conservative-George W. Bush received almost 65 percent of the 2004 vote and carried all precincts-all southern and central precincts voted for John Kerry.

While the state of Texas went strongly for Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, Dimmit County, a traditional stronghold of the Democratic Party, supported U. S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, with 2, 365 votes for Kerry to 1, 188 for Bush.

While in the 2004 U. S. presidential election the county was carried by Republican George W. Bush by a margin of four votes, Democrat Barack Obama carried Monroe County in the 2008 U. S. presidential election by a 17 point margin, 58 % to 41 %.

While John McCain received 51. 6 % of its vote to 47. 1 % for Barack Obama, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carried it by in 2004.

While a member of the company's board of directors, Bush sold stock in Harken on the 22nd of June, 1990, shortly before the company announced substantial losses.

While we abhor and condemn the continuing loss of innocent life in Iraq, we have no choice now but to support the resistance, for if the resistance fails, the " Bush gang " will attack another country.

While in Texas, in 1959, George Bush was elected Harris County Republican Party chairman, in the first of what would become many elections.

While the view of one president and the Socrates team was that technology made it virtually possible for both to exist simultaneously, the industrial policy vs. free market debate continued as later under the George H. W. Bush administration, Socrates was labeled as industrial policy and de-funded.

While serving in the Bush White House, Frum was " one of the most vociferous voices.

While Bush felt it was " another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group's industrial past ".

" While we have no illusions about how a Kerry administration would govern — absent mass pressure from below — and are not impressed with his delayed criticism of the war and his earlier commitments in favor of ' free trade ,' we also realize that the Bush administration is as reactionary as Reagan ’ s.

While there Dayton played goalie for the varsity hockey team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, whose membership at the time included George W. Bush.

While the Blair and Bush administrations have been the subject of criticism for extended periods because of their reliance on questionable intelligence, Rasmussen has managed to stay clear of this potential government crisis.

* Jorge Martin, " While Bush prevaricates, Venezuela offers help to US poor ".

: While the aforementioned persons were influential in the project itself, the value of this project as an influence on organized collaboration is better attributed to Vannevar Bush.

While at Stephen F. Austin State University, Owens served as a coordinator of the Students for George Bush in George H. W.

While Deuce remained the starter, he shared time in the backfield for the first time in his career with the Saints ' first-round draft pick Reggie Bush.

" Then-Florida governor Jeb Bush and state legislature Republicans opposed the bill because it was unclear how much the amendment would cost: " While this may be a worthy goal, we still have to ask the question, where will the money come from?

While Holden voted with a minority of House Democrats in favor of the authorization for the use of U. S. force in Iraq in October 2002 for President George W. Bush, he strongly opposed Bush's " surge " policy in January 2007.

While Holden voted for legislation supported by President Bush that toughened bankruptcy laws and enacted the Halliburton loophole, he voted for the Dodd – Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by President Obama, in July 2010.

While some of Cobb's erstwhile supporters urged swing state residents to vote for Democrat John Kerry in order to stop the re-election of President George W. Bush, other Cobb supporters encouraged votes for Cobb and LaMarche in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

While leading Drew University, Kean also continued to expand his role as a national political leader, forging close working relationships with the administrations of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton ( with whom he had worked closely in the National Governors Association ) and George W. Bush, who saw Kean as an important national political ally.