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But then President Obama swept into the Sunshine State, and Floridians began to dream once more.

He said: "Li Zhongren was really someone. He was the acting president after then president had fallen out of power. "

Most stripped assets, but some began to create shareholder value after then-President Vladimir Putin promised them secure property rights.

He was convicted in 1996 of bribing former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, but pardoned a year later by then-President Kim Young-sam.

Mr. Buckles was also welcomed at the White House that week, by then-president George W. Bush.

Gongadze, an outspoken critic of the then President Leonid Kuchma was found dumped in a forest, provoking widespread outrage in Ukraine.

In less than 20 years he emerged as one of the chief potential rivals of Mr. Marcos, who was then president.

But then, President Taylor made it clear that he would do everything he could to defeat it.

In 1999, Mr. Jobs recruited Millard Drexler, then president of Gap Inc. , to join Apple's board and advise the company on retail strategy.

Then-President Michelle Bachelet, whose father was tortured under Pinochet, refused to attend the ceremony.

He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society.

Roh Tae-woo, then president, was a former general, successor to the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan.

He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are "classified. "

Then President Michel, Ambassador Phillip and Chairman Xu Weiping unveiled the official launching of "Distant Horizons" in Chinese version.

Hardline Communists who organized the coup ordered tanks into the streets of Moscow and restricted the movement of then President Gorbachev.

As the key strategist for first Governor then President Bush, Rove learned lessons that paid big political dividends.

A few hours later, America's then president, George Bush senior, declared victory in the cold war.

China had offered pandas to Taiwan in 2005, but they were rejected by the pro-independence government of then-President Chen Shui-bian.

Still, Mr Jumblatt reconciled himself to Syria's then president, Hafez Assad, Bashar's father, for many years doing his bidding.

In 1998, then-President Jiang Zemin called for a massive increase in enrollment in higher education.

In 2001, she was incarcerated for 42 days during a stand-off with Ukraine's then president, before being exonerated by a court.

Alan tells of his first meeting with then President- elect Bush on Dec . 18, 2000 , at the Madison Hotel in Washington .

The grant opening of the resort was highlighted by a visit of then President Clinton.

In 1907, then President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched a U. S. Navy fleet of 16 battleships for a 16-month trip around the world.

Congress did not pass the legislation last year under threat of a veto from then-President George Bush.

However, that was not so much out of magnanimity as because they thought that the then president, F.

Then President Bush was given his moment: Are there important issues of character separating you from these two men?

In the 2004 election Mr Yanukovich had the backing of Russia's then president, Vladimir Putin, who rushed to congratulate him.

A couple of centuries ago the then president James Monroe asserted US primacy in the western hemisphere.

As a token of friendship, Iran's then president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, visited Khartoum in 1991, along with no fewer than 157 officials.

His supporters blamed Ingushetia's then president and interior minister.

Then President Wilson recognized Carranza's government.

Johnson, the then president, ordered the bombing halt in North Vietnam.

In 1982, he rocketed to fame after designing the Elysee Palace in Paris for then President Francois Mitterrand.

In 2001, then President George W. Bush put limits on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.

In 1982, then President Reagan permitted competition from new Brazilian mines.

Boycotted a banquet in 1999 for Jiang Zemin, then president of China, a decision criticised by Blair as "silly" .

Gates was first appointed defense secretary by then-President George W. Bush in late 2006.

That is what Arthur Burns, then Fed chairman, did in the early 1970s, under pressure from Richard Nixon, then president.

In 1982 the then president Hafez Assad crushed the Muslim Brotherhood there, killing more than 10, 000, and perhaps twice that.

They then talked by radiophone 240, 000 miles away to then-President Richard M. Nixon.

In 2002 the then president, Fujio Cho, declared that Toyota was aiming for 15% of the global market by 2010.

A special commission in Honduras has begun investigating last year's military-backed overthrow of the then President Manuel Zelaya.

In 2006, for example, Libya hosted Taiwan*s then-President Chen Shui-bian, despite loud objections from Beijing.

Youngest: Frances Folsom Cleveland, 21 years old when she married then-President Cleveland.