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Asia Injury Prevention Foundation

Helmets for Kids was officially launched on November 19, 2000 in Ho Chi Minh City by former US President Bill Clinton along with founding sponsors APL and BP.

Capital punishment in Mexico

In 2002, President Vicente Fox cancelled a trip to the United States to meet US President George W. Bush, in protest of the then imminent execution of a Mexican national, Javier Suárez Medina, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Captive Nations

The latest US President to specify the list of countries with oppressive regimes was George W. Bush.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Elfyn Llwyd

In August 2004 Llwyd joined Adam Price in a campaign to impeach then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair over the alleged misleading of the UK Parliament and for allegedly making a secret agreement with then US President George W. Bush to overthrow Saddam Hussein, amongst other charges.

Fairbairn, Canberra

The airport is used by official aircraft carrying foreign heads of state or government when visiting Canberra, for example when the US President visits Canberra, Air Force One lands there.

Francisco G. Cigarroa

In December 2011, Cigarroa was invited to the White House to share his program with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

H. Upmann

The favourite cigar of US President John F. Kennedy was the H. Upmann Petit Upmann (sold under the name Demi Tasse in the United States).

History of Muskogee

Muskogee first received recognition when in 1805 US President Thomas Jefferson addressed the United States Congress seconding the recommendation of Meriwether Lewis that a trading post be established near the modern day city.

It Can Happen Here

Conason discusses what he sees as a trend towards authoritarianism during the administration of US President George W. Bush, focusing on manipulation of intelligence and public opinion surrounding the Iraq War, disregard of national and international law (the NSA warrantless wiretapping controversy and signing statements are used as examples), the increased mix of big business and government, and more.

Ivan Glasenberg

In 2005, BusinessWeek referred to Glasenberg as a key figure in the secretive oil-trading inner circle of Marc Rich, a billionaire commodities trader charged with tax evasion and illegal deals with Iran and later pardoned by US President, Bill Clinton.

Jeremiah Mason

Mary Means was a sister of Elizabeth Means, wife of Jesse Appleton, son of Francis Appleton and wife Elizabeth Hubbard, parents of Jane Means Appleton, wife of Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), US President.

Kiss cam

The kiss cam became widely known outside the US and Canada on July 16, 2012, when US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were 'caught' twice by the kiss cam during an international basketball match between Team USA and Brazil at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. The president kissed his wife on the second occasion.

Kostas Hatzis

It is worth noting that his fame as a singer for the peace has reached the White House and the then US President, Jimmy Carter invites him to meet him and congratulate him.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Pavlichenko was sent to Canada and the United States for a publicity visit and became the first Soviet citizen to be received by a US President when Franklin Roosevelt welcomed her to the White House.

Mackie International

United States President Bill Clinton made a speech at the Belfast site in 1995, addressing a mixed audience in light of the beginning of the Northern Ireland peace process.

Madrid peace conference letter of invitation

The invitation was issued in the name of US President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and signed by US Secretary of State James A. Baker, III and Boris Pankin for the Soviet Union, and a reply by October 23, 1991, was requested.

Murder of Yvonne Fletcher

Two years later it became a major factor in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow US President Ronald Reagan to launch the US bombing of Libya in 1986 from American bases in the United Kingdom.

Ostrožská Lhota

Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota

PJAK

On April 18, 2006, US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich sent a letter to US president George W. Bush in which he expressed his judgment that the US is likely to be supporting and coordinating PJAK, since PJAK operates and is based in Iraqi territory, which is under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Resignation

This could be a gesture of confidence in the official, as with US President George W. Bush's refusal of his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's twice-offered resignation during the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

Sara Wilford

Sara Delano Roosevelt diBonaventura Wilford (born March 13, 1932) is the daughter of Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, a prominent philanthropist in medicine and art, and James Roosevelt, the oldest son of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

Shō Tai

Chinese Viceroy Li Hongzhang protested the annexation of the former kingdom, and attempted to reopen the question of Ryūkyū's sovereignty, by entering into discussions with former US president Ulysses S. Grant and officials in Tokyo, but without success.

St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main

In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy gave a major speech in the Paulskirche during his visit to the country.

Takamiyama Daigorō

A congratulatory letter from US President Richard Nixon was read out by the US Ambassador to Japan at the presentation ceremony, marking the only time that English has been officially spoken on the dohyō.

The Children of Vallenato

The group has performed throughout the world, in many countries, including a personal presentation for former US president Bill Clinton at the White House.

Total War: 2006

In a desperate bid to prevent Israel from laying waste to much of the world in its death throes, the US President authorises a nuclear strike on Israel itself.

Waco, Texas

The airfield is still in operation and was used by Air Force One when former US President George W. Bush visited his Prairie Chapel Ranch, also known as the Western White House, in Crawford, Texas.

Xiamen Airlines

This order was part of a larger 70 plane purchase agreement between CASGC and Boeing, which was signed during a state visit of then US President George W. Bush.


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86th Airlift Wing

On 5 May 1999, US president William Clinton, accompanied by Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Henry Shelton and a large assortment of congressional delegates visited the 86th AW and Ramstein AB.

Adam Boulton

On 15 June 2008 he became the first British television reporter to conduct a joint interview of US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura.

Aliyu Modibbo Umar

In March 2007, speaking at the official commissioning of the Human Capital Development Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, Aliyu Modibbo Umar said that Nigeria should take advantage of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which was signed into Law on May 18, 2000, by US President Bill Clinton.

Anatoli Blagonravov

This led to an agreement signed on May 24, 1972 by US President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, calling for such a joint manned space mission, and declaring intent for all future international manned spacecraft to be capable of docking with each other.

Anglo-Persian Oil Company

US President Harry S. Truman and US ambassador to Iran Henry F. Grady opposed intervention in Iran but needed Britain's support for the Korean War.

Anne Sinclair

She interviewed French presidents François Mitterrand and Nicolas Sarkozy as well as US president Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Felipe González, German chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder, Hillary Clinton, the UN Secretary General in New York during the first gulf war, and Prince Charles.

ANZUS

Reasons given were the dangers of nuclear weapons, continued French nuclear testing in the South Pacific, and opposition to US President Ronald Reagan's policy of aggressively confronting the Soviet Union.

Blood of Elves

In 2011, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk gave US President Barack Obama diplomatic presents, as is custom, on his visit to Poland.

Chenpeng Village Primary School stabbing

The lack of coverage by Chinese state-run news channels, and the lack of any emotional response from the Chinese government at all levels were contrasted to the detailed US media coverage and US President Barack Obama's national speech, including his commitment to tackle the underlying issues.

Children's Bible Hour

In 1971, recognition for CBH's growth came from a future US president, Gerald R. Ford.

Courier 1B

After completing its first orbit, a message from US President Dwight Eisenhower to the United Nations was transmitted from the Deal Test Site, an off-base transmission facility of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and relayed to a ground station in Puerto Rico.

Daisy Tourné

In 2007, as Interior Minister, Tourné oversaw security for the visit to Uruguay of US President George W. Bush, to whom a significant hostility among many of Ms. Tourné's Frente Amplio colleagues, raised in a tradition which magnifies Che Guevara and his Cuban fellow revolutionaries, was widely noted.

David Keyes

He has held meetings with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President George W. Bush.

Ed Kealty

However, in the 2003 Tom Clancy novel The Teeth of the Tiger, Ed Kealty reappears as the US President, seemingly to have been elected after Robby Jackson's assassination, earning the nickname "The Comeback Kid".

Erneido Oliva

In July 1987, US President Ronald Reagan, appointed him to the position of Deputy Commanding General of the D.C. Army National Guard.

Freedom of religion in France

Similar controversial security measures have been implemented for the visit of former US president George W. Bush, another foreign head of state controversial in France.

Gertrude Emerson Sen

She was the daughter of Alfred Emerson, Sr., and the granddaughter of Deborah Hall, the wife of Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury (1829-31) under US President Andrew Jackson.

Ghana national baseball team

In June 2008, US President George W. Bush, Ghanaian Vice President Aliu Mahama and outgoing US ambassador Pamela Bridgewater were honored for their work in developing baseball and softball in the country.

Global Peace Index

The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Jan Eliasson and former US president Jimmy Carter.

Graeme Dunstan

As organizer of the LBJ Welcome Committee he stopped US President Lyndon Johnson's motorcade in Liverpool Street, Sydney by lying under the president's car, upon which NSW Premier, Robert Askin, was reported to have said "run over the bastards".

Harding Circle Historic District

The circle was named after Warren G. Harding US president at the time the roads were laid out by Owen Burns and John Ringling for their "Ringling Isles" development during the early 1920s.

Helene Whitney

Through her father Granville Roland Fortescue (1875–1952), she was cousin once removed of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Helmut Landsberg

Among his notable honors were the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1978), the Outstanding Achievement in Bioclimatology Award (1983) and the Cleveland Abbey Award (1983) of the American Meteorological Society, and the National Medal of Science (1985), presented to him by US President Ronald Reagan.

Jakob Heine

Heine was also honoured at Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, where his bronze bust can be found along with those of other polio experts and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Polio Hall of Fame.

James Connally Air Force Base

From January 2001 through January 2009, the former airfield of James Connally AFB was used by Air Force One when US President George W. Bush visited his Prairie Chapel Ranch, also known as the Western White House, in Crawford, Texas.

James DePaiva

DePaiva is also noted for being a descendant of former US President Andrew Johnson.

Kingdoms in Conflict

Kingdoms in Conflict: An Insider's Challenging View of Politics, Power and the Pulpit is a work of Christian literature by former US President Richard Nixon's chief counsel, Charles Colson, published in 1987 in the United States by Zondervan and in 1988 in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton.

Kōnu, Hiroshima

The main street of Kōnu also known as "Carter Street", named for US president Jimmy Carter after his visit in the 1990s.

Lake Lyndon B. Johnson

The dam would be renamed Wirtz Dam in 1952 for Alvin J. Wirtz, the first general counsel of the LCRA, and the lake was renamed to Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 in honor of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Li Xiannian

In 1984, Li Met with US President Ronald Reagan during Reagan's visit to China, notably discussing the status of Taiwan with the President.

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

She is best known for a widely read short story about US President Abraham Lincoln, "The Perfect Tribute", which was adapted for film twice and sold 600,000 copies when published as a standalone volume.

Mentor Graham

William Mentor Graham (1800 - 1886) was an American teacher best known for tutoring Abraham Lincoln and giving him his higher education during the future US President's time in New Salem, Illinois.

Nathaniel Fillmore

(April 19, 1771 – March 28, 1863) was an American farmer, and the father of US President Millard Fillmore.

No. 84 Wing RAAF

 34 Squadron provided VIP transport during the visits to Australia by Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama.

Paul Pondi

On 20 January 1993, Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi attended the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton; he and his wife Rose were photographed with Clinton and Clinton's wife Hillary, and Fru Ndi's presence at the event had a symbolic impact in Cameroon, giving the impression of recognition and legitimacy in light of Fru Ndi's claim to have defeated Biya in the 1992 presidential election.

Plains, North Lanarkshire

But in 1976, newly elected US President Jimmy Carter (of Plains, Georgia) received a congratulatory telegram from Plains newsagent - also J. Carter.

Prevost Car

Ground Force One is the nickname given to the modified X3-45 shells used by US President Barack Obama.

Resolution-class submarine

To address this problem, in May 1960 the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan arranged a deal with US President Eisenhower to equip the V bombers with the US-designed AGM-48 Skybolt.

Robert Piper

In 2005, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Piper was asked by former US President Bill Clinton to serve as his chief of staff, in Clinton's capacity as UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery.

Sandra Ramdhanie

On her radio show, Ramdhanie predicted that US President John F. Kennedy would reincarnate as an Irish writer 35 years after his assassination.

Sathamba

Sonal Shah (The 44th US president-elect Barack Obama's presidential transition team member) has her native roots from a village named, Gabat which is one of the closest neighborhood area of Sathamba.

September Dossier

Subsequently, CIA director George Tenet stated that the remarks should not have been included in the US President's speech.

Steve Gong

The work comes after two American journalists were detained, until former US President Bill Clinton negotiated their release.

Tague

James Tague (b. 1936), a notable witness to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy

Theodore Earl Butler

Courtland Philip Livingston Butler, Theodore Earl Butler’s father is US President George W. Bush paternal great-great grandfather.

United States of Poland

It was first presented in Paderewski Memorial, given to US President Woodrow Wilson on 11 January 1917.

Whaling in Norway

According to documents released by WikiLeaks, US president Barack Obama, who promised to oppose whaling during his presidential campaign, used diplomatic channels to put pressure on Norway during his visit for the conferment of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Years in Ghana

2009 July - US President Barack Obama visits, making the first Sub-Saharan country to be visited by the 44th President of the United State.