Prior to 1936, the rule for nominating candidates for President and Vice President required a two-thirds vote of the delegates.
The October 13, 1947 edition of Time magazine reported that President Truman, who had just made the first Oval Office TV appearance on October 5, 1947 and received the first TV for the White House, watched parts of the Series but "skipped the last innings".
Provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.
In 1999, David Nielsen of The Brunching Shuttlecocks recorded a parody entitled "88 Lines About 42 Presidents" about the Presidents of the United States through Bill Clinton.
Until 1989, the position of Architect of the Capitol was filled by appointment from the President of the United States for an indefinite term.
The Arkansas Timberlands was the birthplace of former President of the United States Bill Clinton.
The President has no formal role in the constitutional amendment process.
The fall of Atlanta was a critical point in the Civil War, giving the North more confidence, and (along with the victories at Mobile Bay and Winchester) leading to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln and the eventual surrender of the Confederacy.
Legislation signed by the President in December 2003 extended the Basic Pilot Program until November 2008 and grew to encompass all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
As provided by the act, the board, attached to the Office of the Secretary, was composed of three post-captains appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the ranking officer of the board was to be its president.
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.
Odeneal had been converted to the Republican cause after Lincoln's election as United States President in 1860.
Formed in 1882 from part of Rush Township, it is named for Warren Delano II, maternal grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945.
At the centre of the suburb lies a shopping centre built in the late 1970s and initially named the President Carter Shopping Centre, after it was opened by U.S. President Jimmy Carter during an official visit to the region in 1977.
Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression.
It is also used to elect the various party nominees for President of the United States, the host city of the Olympic Games and the host of the FIFA World Cup.
In 1947, President of the United States Harry S. Truman nominated Norton as an Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for international transportation and communications.
In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to run for Vice President in the 1920 presidential election.
He held considerable influence in Tammany Hall for twenty-five years and was credited for delivering New York to James K. Polk and securing his election as President of the United States.
Although he remained the board's Republican commissioner until 1885, when former Louisiana Senator Joseph Rodman West resigned from the presidency of the D.C. Board of Commissioners in 1883, President Chester A. Arthur nominated Edmonds to serve as the board's Democratic commissioner and its chair.
Named for President Thomas Jefferson, it is one of twenty-four Jefferson Townships statewide.
In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party Members of Parliament (MPs) to heckle American President Ronald Reagan during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (Toronto Star, 6 June 2004).
In 1971, McCullen joined the Executive Office of the President of the United States as a Special Assistant to the President.
She also made the USA Olympic team in 1980, but the team did not get to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott ordered by then President Jimmy Carter.
The Tank, Light, Mk VIII (A25), also known as the Harry Hopkins, after President Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor, was a British light tank produced by Vickers-Armstrong during World War II.
Athalie Range was one of the first African-Americans in Florida to back Jimmy Carter when he ran for President.
Residual usage in several multi-member constituencies is reduced to the election of the Electoral college of the President of the United States.
The monument and tomb of U.S. President William Henry Harrison is located just off U.S. Route 50 in the township, and his former residence is located in nearby North Bend.
During Harry S. Truman's time as President, Michael Davis kept files and records of Truman's speeches.
The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
The American President Herbert Hoover was a decedent of Johann Heinrich Huber who emigrated to the United States from Oberkulm.
Task Force 47 (TF 47), a 28-ship detachment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Edmund B. Taylor, sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to participate in the official opening of the Seaway by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 26, 1959.
It has received numerous illustrious visitors, including four Popes, President John F. Kennedy, and Billy Graham.
The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections, which the two major political parties use to clear the field of candidates before their national nominating conventions, where the most successful candidate is made the party's nominee for president.
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Nominees participate in nationally televised debates, and while the debates are usually restricted to the Democratic and Republican nominees, third party candidates may be invited, such as Ross Perot in the 1992 debates.
The President's Cancer Panel is a three-person panel that reports to the President of the United States on the development and execution of the National Cancer Program.
It is officially named the Eisenhower Bridge for Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.
Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was a nurse, social activist, and the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.
President James K. Polk appointed Bowen to a clerkship in the Treasury Department in 1845, but revoked the appointment three years later when Bowen gained the reputation of a radical for distributing abolitionist propaganda; additionally, he supported Freesoil candidate Martin Van Buren in that year's presidential election rather than Polk's preferred successor, Lewis Cass.
It puts the player in the position of a member of the secret service whose purpose is to defend the President.
The S-70 can perform a wide array of missions, including air cavalry, electronic warfare, and aeromedical evacuation: several versions are even used to transport the President of the United States, which while carrying the President is known as "Marine One".
Before the opening game of the CWS between Vanderbilt and North Carolina on Saturday, June 18, the ceremonial first pitch was delivered by former President George W. Bush.
The Prime Minister of Japan proposes cancelling the Summit for the safety of all involved, but the President of the United States convinces the other world leaders to personally stay and fight.
Volumes dedicated to a single topic have been released, under the title Uncle John Plunges Into..., for example: history, presidents, and the universe.
Construction on the Capitol itself began in 1793, when the first American President, George Washington, laid down the cornerstone to the north wing of the building.
With the launch of the Presidential $1 Coin Program, four dollar coins have been released each year since 2007 - each depicting a serving U.S. President.
To avoid that, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support.
Named for President George Washington it shares its name with forty-two other Townships statewide.
Officers from the Pentagon arrive to return him to Washington to be decorated personally by the President of the United States.
He worked on a number of high-profile criminal investigations, some of them concerning historical figures such as Francisco Pizarro, the Romanov family, Joseph Merrick (known as "'The Elephant Man'"), US President Zachary Taylor and Medgar Evers.
Beginning as a recommended list of 15 individuals that the next president should listen to (the first Smart List was published just before the 2008 United States presidential election), the Smart List has evolved into a list that seeks to identify influencers and ideas that will shape the evolution of the global economy, define future business trends, and usher in new paradigms of thought.
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The pre-summit negotiations were blown sharply off course by the appearance in early August at the U. N. of United States Ambassador to the U. N. John Bolton, appointed as a recess appointment by U.S. President George W. Bush.
In the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, he worked for the Railroad Retirement Board in Washington, D.C. From there he found employment in the Federal Coordinator of Transport, the United States Tariff Commission and the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration.
General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.
President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.
However, the capture of Atlanta made an enormous contribution to Northern morale and was an important factor in the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln.
As it was a monetary law, it required the approval of the President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not give his.
Along with former Senator John Breaux and Congresswoman Corrine Brown, former President Bill Clinton visited the college on February 8, 2008 to campaign for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Louisiana 2008 Democratic primary,
Another notable relative was Charles Marcil's maternal uncle, Edward P. Doherty, an American Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of United States President Abraham Lincoln.
They were host to various international leaders During APEC Australia 2007 in September 2007, with visiting heads of state including President of the United States George W. Bush, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao and the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe.
The Council of Governors is composed of 10 members, selected by the President for a term of 2 years from among the governors of the several states and territories of the United States and the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election.
Ludwig was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on June 21, 1985.
As a discouragement to the prosecution, Bollier is alleged to have let it be known before the start of the trial that if he were to be charged for the PA 103 bombing he would call some high-ranking and controversial witnesses to appear, for example: former United States President George H. W. Bush, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Gerrit Pretorius, private secretary to South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha.
Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2005) was the alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and Nan Britton, a native of Marion, Ohio.
In 1997, then President of the United States Bill Clinton was given a European city bike named City Bike One as a memento of his visit to Copenhagen, Denmark.
On 12 February 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized funding for three ballistic missile submarines.
The district is also the historic and current home of President Jimmy Carter.
In 2010 the organizers issued an official call to the presidents of Russia and U.S., Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to attend the 50th anniversary event.
He served as an advisor to United States President Jimmy Carter during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and wounded U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).
He is best known for his claims that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
In September 1982, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Van Gorkom as Under Secretary of State for Management and, after Senate confirmation, Van Gorkom held this office from December 22, 1982 until October 14, 1983.
After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.
She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ended up supporting her on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party as their Vice Presidential candidate in the United States presidential election, 1884.
The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush in April 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings.
Since 2006, the village has received international attention because it is the hometown of Barack Obama, Sr., the father of current United States President Barack Obama.
--before editing, tagging, or deleting this claim, please see talk page--> occasional poem in the first decade of the 21st century is Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day," composed for and read by the poet at the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2009 before a television audience of millions.
General Sherman wrote to Secretary of State William Stanton about Howe, and for his bravery President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the United States Naval Academy in July 1865 because he was too young for West Point.
On the scene, he anchored coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Pope John Paul II, numerous royal, papal, and U.S. presidential visits to Canada, numerous Olympic Games, and the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
On 10 December 2013, Castro, in a significant moment shook hands and greeted American President Barack Obama at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in Johannesburg.
His Medal was presented to him by President Theodore Roosevelt and his Medal of Honor was accredited to the state California.
In 2001, President of the United States George W. Bush nominated Morello to be the first Native American General Counsel of the Army and, after Senate confirmation, Morello held this post from 2001 until September 2004.
In 2007, while White was serving as the Department's Director of Communications and Public Policy, then Commissioner Terry Cline resigned after being nominated by (then) President of the United States George W. Bush to become the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
In 1980, Bouricius was part of the group of people associated with the Citizens Party and the presidential candidacy of Barry Commoner, which became the Vermont Progressive Party, and associated with the successful independent campaign of Bernie Sanders for mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
Finally the President of the United States calls the Park ranger on his cell phone and tells him to plant the tree.
Officials are appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Defense by the President and are confirmed by the Senate by majority vote.
Republican former U.S. Senator and Vice-President Richard Nixon was elected to serve as the 37th President of the United States, defeating the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey.
Following the election of George W. Bush, Curlin praised the President's opposition to abortion, saying, "He gives us hope. That's what's important today. You felt under the former administration that there was no hope as far as the sanctity of life issue."
He was attacking President Andrew Jackson through Houston and accused him of being in league with John Von Fossen and Robert Rose.
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.