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 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 inexperienced in foreign affairs, Truman had closely followed the allied progress of the war.

While the house's structure was kept intact by the Truman reconstruction, much of the new interior finishes were generic, and of little historic value.

While campaigning for president in 1952, Eisenhower denounced the Truman administration's failures in Korea, campaigned alongside McCarthy, and refused to defend Marshall's policies.

While in the city, Lee was reunited with old friend Truman Capote, one of the literary rising stars of the time.

While Matt eventually got all of the prizes in the rigged contest, the show's central running joke was in the same existential ballpark as The Truman Show.

While yachting with President Truman on Memorial Day in 1945, Truman asked Minton to accept an appointment to the position of Solicitor General of the United States.

While Truman quickly fell out with Wallace, he retained a good working relationship with Byrnes and increasingly turned to him for support.

While NSC-68 did not make any specific recommendations regarding the proposed increase in defense expenditures, the Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 ( from 5 to 14. 2 percent ).

While Acuff did relatively well and helped reinvigorate Tennessee's Republicans, his opponent, Gordon Browning, still won with 67 percent of the vote. And U. S. President Harry Truman won Tennessee's electoral votes that year in his comeback bid for reelection.

While he was in Congress he befriended Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a friendship that would last throughout his life.

While Bridges still advocated the post-war plan for industrial peace that the Communist Party, along with the leaders of the CIO, the AFL and the Chamber of Commerce, were advocating, he differed sharply with CIO leadership on Cold War politics, from the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine's application in Greece and Turkey to participation in the World Federation of Trade Unions.

While he was a student at the school, from 1922 to 1924, Harry S. Truman was a classmate.

While Truman is initially skeptical of Cooper's unconventional investigation methods and other-worldly ideas, he is most often willing to accept Cooper's judgment.

While the United States recognized Chiang's government as the sole legitimate government for all of China, President Harry Truman announced on January 5, 1950 that the United States would not become involved in the dispute of Taiwan Strait and would not intervene in the event of an attack by the PRC.

While Secretary of Commerce, Sawyer was ordered by Truman to seize and operate the steel mills in 1952.

" While there Miller was interviewed by the editor of a local newspaper and asked if he had had any scathing criticism of his treatment of the Truman tapes.

While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer.

While working for Eclipse comics, Truman included a Flexi disc recording inside Scout # 19 that provided a soundtrack to one of the scenes in the comic.

While writing the biography of one of his favorite guitarists, Carlos Santana, for Rock-It Comics, Truman found out that the musician had been a longtime fan of his comic, Scout whose main character, Emanuel Santanna, is the namesake of the famous guitarist.

While he was in high school, Jack befriended college student Will Truman ( Eric McCormack ) and helped Will realize his own homosexuality.

While in Washington, he was presented the Medal of Honor by President Truman.

The Truman Order — based on the findings of an interdepartmental committee established in 1946 — was superseded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ’ s issuance of Executive Order 10450 in April 1953, which provided that “ he appointment of each civilian officer or employee in any department or agency of the Government shall be made subject to an investigation ,” and made each agency head responsible for ensuring that “ the employment and retention in employment of any civilian officer or employee within the department or agency is clearly consistent with the interests of the national security .” While abolishing the Truman Order program, including the Loyalty Review Boards within the Civil Service Commission, the new Order also made clear that “ the interests of national security require that all persons privileged to be employed in the departments and agencies of the Government, shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States .”