Another series of tense, last-minute meetings took place with the president and his advisors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Earl T. Askew,” Grandma muttered, “president of the Chamber of Commerce.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A portrait of Reich president Hindenburg hangs in his butcher shop. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the adults I don’t know is commenting on how much he likes the president because of his tax cuts. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would appoint her team, the way the president appointed his cabinet. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stanton ordered soldiers to transport the president back to the Executive Mansion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am not,” the president of the United States protested. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Like, you could run for class president right now and win, if you were into all that stuff." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And she became positively irate when she found out that Woodhull planned to use the National’s membership as the basis of a political party that would nominate her for president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m all for the law and order he and the president talk about.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like this has ever happened in our town before,” added George Rowley, owner of Chokecherry Real Estate and president of the local chamber of commerce. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For once, the cabinet meeting was free of crises, battle news, and problems requiring the president’s immediate attention. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does vice president get to do again?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The same logic didn’t apply in the United States, where the president is independently elected and often does not represent the party that has a majority in the Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

However, he suggests that I just be honest about why I want to be president of the class. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If your mum weren’t the president and you were just a normal bloke living a normal life, what things might be like? What you’d be doing instead?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was the first president since Nixon to win the presidency but lose her own state of residence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m the student council president and, of course, captain of the basketball team.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Except for a handful of doctors, government officials, and family friends who would enter the Petersen house, that glimpse of the president ascending the stairs was the last time Americans saw Abraham Lincoln alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the priest finally declared his candidacy for president, Farmer wrote in a journal, “Perhaps this is a singular chance to change Haiti.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s the student body president at Santa Maria High School. Come up and say a few words, Frankie,” he said, motioning with his hand for me to approach the podium. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Given the disastrous events of April 1865, Mudd assumed that the Union victory had changed the actor’s plans and the scheme to kidnap the president had been abandoned. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his car pulled through the gate, the president acknowledged the women by tipping his hat in their direction, but he did not smile. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As an African American woman, with three young children who will never know a world in which a black man could not be president of the United States, I was beyond thrilled on election night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neylan stood by as Lawrence weaved his spell over this sophisticated gentleman, who had socialized with governors and presidents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A slightly built former dancer, she worked upstairs as a vice president at Bravo. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was thinking like the seventh-grade president, and our project needed him. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In January 1989, I was visited by my four comrades from Polls-moor and we discussed the memorandum I was planning to send to the state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could she, the actress asked Dr. Leale, cradle the dying president’s head in her lap? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farming had also become a tougher business in Malawi, thanks to the policies of a new president. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But as Lawrence would tell Tuve before his departure for Europe, “We helped start this and have to do what we can about it. The president asked, so I must go.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In 1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When Kissinger flew to Saigon to brief the South Vietnamese president, it did not go well. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Calvin Coolidge echoed the president’s sentiments and expressed them even more directly. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Well, I really need you to forget about that now and act extra in love with me or the president might kill Gale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the conference I was elected president of the ANC without opposition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., later that day, the president focused on next steps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But he did not want to see or harm the vice president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began on Friday, April 5, the day after King’s assassination, close to 500 students and faculty marched to university president Douglas Knight’s mansion to present him with a set of four demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bed covers and clothing were pulled aside to expose the president's back, including the dressings over his bullet wound and new incision. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president got out and looked up at what he considered the most beautiful sight in Washington—the Lincoln Memorial at night. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, we’re the ones most likely to die from hunger and thirst, not the guards or any of those fascist bureaucrats in the Hub. And definitely not the president,” Soheil says. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I am going to put Benjamin’s name in nomination for president of 4B. Are there any other nominations?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, I stared for a few extra seconds at the little oblong bubble next to my husband’s name for president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnard was a key player in this inner council and was said to be a protege of the president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“F.D.R. was not the last president. That was about seventy years ago.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When World War II started in 1939, looking ahead, Jackie had asked Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, for help to create a program to train American women pilots for ferry flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Enthusiasm for the victory quilt waned, what with the president’s signature being blurred beyond recognition, but all were pleased to see it bring such a high bid. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I also knew that we needed a break: I’d started scouting for a private place where we could go to decompress for a few days in January, immediately after the new president got sworn in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By now, some members of the audience had looked up, seeing a man climbing out of the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington recognized the improvement, congratulating Hamilton for rendering him “with less egotism,” meaning the Hamilton draft covered the wounds, or at least prevented the president from displaying them too conspicuously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In April of 1787, Franklin agreed to serve as the new president of the revitalized Pennsylvania Abolition Society and to make the antislavery cause the final project of his life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember you warning the guy off when we nominated him for eighth grade president,” I snarled. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Not even Congress was aware that the president was considering another major escalation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That said, the president himself didn’t treat the occasion as offhandedly as posterity has sometimes had it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The president can make people change, I figured. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what class presidents do, but the girl gave a very good speech. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Former president Teddy Roosevelt sometimes came to stay at Riverbank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The beleaguered president decided not to run for a second term. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Your president, if you please,” Catt said when she was introduced to the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

How could I put my own needs, and even those of our girls, in front of the possibility that Barack could be the kind of president who helped make life better for millions of people? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the new president of the club, Carmine Nigro announced that Bobby was his guest and would be accepted as a member. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two and a half years, the tape machines picked up nearly four thousand hours of meetings and phone conversations—including an excellent record of the president’s imminent showdown with Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Undeterred, Guiteau wrote a brief note and asked the usher to pass it to the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a public acknowledgment that Arthur might soon become president and that they all were united behind him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Chaff, who comes right on her heels, insists the president could change the Quell if he wanted to, but he must not think it matters much to anyone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A messenger on horseback had ridden ahead to announce to the White House staff that the president had been shot and was on his way. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you are not willing to telephone the state president to get those orders,” I said coldly, “then kindly do not interrupt us again.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guiteau was not invited to see the president the next day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In April 1952, President Truman fired MacArthur after the general made public statements disagreeing with the president over how the war should be waged. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it was in the pages of the New York Herald, on April 2, 1870, that Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhat brazenly, I suppose, I laid all this out in my interview with Michael Riordan, the hospital’s new president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell me who the president is?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When it was 95 degrees outside, the machine kept the area around the president's bed at a comfortable 75 degrees. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was a committed pacifist, but she was receiving pressure from constituents who wanted her to support the president’s call to arms. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

True, the country was now titillated by the president’s tawdry indiscretions, but scandalous as it was, the whole affair felt faintly comic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If a black person can be elected president, can’t a black person do just about anything now? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The president considered his options with his tense advisors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It shouldn’t be said that the president of the United States died in a saloon.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably some rich bank president or hotel guy,” Jinjoo said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It is this bug-eyed effect Hilly has on people that makes her such a successful League president. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the ladies’ waiting room, he watched as the president was greeted by his son and another man, walked to a carriage, and climbed in. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would have to catch the president outside the building. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president compared the storm to 9/11 and the War on Terror. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone throw the first Puerto Rican president of the United States into a snowbank? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Leale orders the four soldiers to get to work, lock their hands beneath the president, and form a sling. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the angry suffragists burned not only Wilson’s words but also a straw-stuffed figure about two feet tall meant to represent the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even some veterans began publicly criticizing the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Stanton had been among those to turn down the president’s invitation to join him and Mary at Ford’s Theatre tonight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America,” Henry Kissinger told the president and other top aides in the Oval Office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Addie: Big deal, she was elected class president for the past three years. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, on the morning of April 19, the most solemn day in the history of the nation began with the president’s funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The board then made him president and, in effect, the mayor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From his first day in office as president, he would be reminded of the movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Such was the vehemence with which he made the threat that the president of the republic canceled his trip at the last moment and sent the decoration with a personal representative. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“What’s interesting about him? That he is a Lagos playboy Hying off his father’s money, said money accumulated from a diesel importation monopoly that they have because of their contact with the president?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was, most historians agree, one of the worst presidents in American history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then Rukia said, “I know what our specific subject can be. We can talk about what would happen if a woman ran for president of the United States.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The procedure would be done externally, and the president wouldn't feel it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The charter says instead of a president and a council, we will have one governor to rule us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

J. B. Marks, a longtime member of the ANC and the Communist Party, was then president of the African Mine Workers Union. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so popular I could probably be school president. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We talk more about her experience at St. Francis, how she was the senior class president and how she was on the debate team. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But the former president didn’t complain; he wasn’t going to interfere if it was everyone else’s best chance for survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the president’s advisors even recommended that he approve suffrage as a war measure so that the protests would stop. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overnight we’d gone from our first African-American president to a presidential nominee who was openly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and the leader of the American Nazi Party. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Penelope had once attended a lecture at Swanburne given by the deputy vice president of the Heathcote Amateur Pteridological Society, and considered herself quite knowledgeable about ferns as a result. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I clicked the green button to describe our seasons, and then the pale blue one to explain that our president was Bill Clinton and our vice president was Al Gore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. Charles Leale, seated in the front of the first balcony, about forty feet from the president’s box, had arrived in time to witness it all. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be president of the class because...” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bush proved to be a capable president, and the women successfully managed the meeting on their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When someone in the crowd shouted that he couldn’t see the president, Lincoln’s son Tad volunteered to illuminate his father. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vice president said a few short words, the band played the school song, and then Mr. Gunthrie began announcing names. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He called his vice president in the Klan and told him to come by and pick up the keys to the Klavern. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“My darling daughters,” he began as if he were running for president. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Notorious for overcrowding and violence, the prison was known by its initials, LBJ, in a sarcastic tip of the hat to the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In Cairo, the day after a private meeting with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, I was scheduled to address a large meeting in a local hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in 1960, I had felt a surge of hope when John F. Kennedy became president of the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then the president’s heart began to beat and his lungs sucked in a breath. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Brunswick, Georgia, the presidents of two national banks held a meeting. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And there wasn’t a Brooklyn boy who wouldn’t rather play on the Brooklyn’s team than be president of the United States. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post proclaimed that, according to the president's doctors, he would be out of bed in two weeks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next was the family cleanup and a lesson of one kind or another—the alphabet, math, poems, or memorizing the sequence of the presidents of the United States in the order they served. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We arrived in Dar es Salaam the next day and I met with Julius Nyerere, the newly independent country’s first president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Reagan went on TV and called the Shorawi “the Evil Empire,” Baba went out and bought a picture of the grinning president giving a thumbs up. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We’d finish with a short visit to Botswana, meeting with its president and stopping at a community HIV clinic, and then enjoy a quick safari before heading home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With this new funding came intense political pressure for scientists to meet the president’s deadline. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Railroad workers had laid a temporary track between the main line and the street so that the wagon could pull up next to the president's rail car. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Might this not create “a dangerous crisis in public affairs” by placing the president and vice president “in opposite boxes”? Abigail thought such speculations were too hypothetical to worry about. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The president of the United States would like to formally request the state box for this evening—if it is available,” the note reads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it was obvious to everybody that the eighth grade president was not hospitalized, not suffering from amnesia, not in a vegetative state, and was very, very much alive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As much as King needed the president, the reverse was also true. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

An illustration showingjohn Wilkes Booth on the stage of Ford’s Theatre immediately after he shot the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt had been our president for more than three terms in office. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old president just laughed and sent for his good friend, the head of the armed forces. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just fifth grade. It’s stupid anyway. The president takes attendance, and the vice president turns the lights on and off Stupid stuff like that.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then Maxwell answered: Who was the first president to live in the White House? and the score was even. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The president felt as if “he was himself again” when he saw people swimming and walking at the beach, boats sailing on the ocean, and the soldiers pacing the perimeter of the cottage lawn. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was serving Baby’s porridge when the deputy president spoke briefly on the radio, the voice understated, as if he were exhausted from the effort of saying, “The government is handing over to the military.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The eyelids were so filled with blood that they looked bruised, like someone had punched the president in the face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

King was followed at the pulpit by the Reverend Frederick Douglass Reese, president of Selma’s black teachers’ association. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back before the elections, I would’ve said I wanted to be vice president more than anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven hundred kids were absolutely convinced that the eighth grade president had come to tragedy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

These men met at the White House on Sunday morning to discuss the president's progress during the night, and they planned to reconvene at the White House that evening. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This is the first significant breakthrough for women in the history of Congress,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said at the time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Nurse Myerson helped him up into the ambulance, and the greatest eighth grade president we ever had was gone. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The president cannot force the passage of constitutional amendments, which must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and ratified by three-quarters of the state legislatures. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Which only proved that we’d picked exactly the right person to be president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I thought about Rear Admiral Hill, the former superintendent of the Naval Academy, who served as the president of Valley Forge in my last three years of high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I never liked the ‘look at me’ part of running for president.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The president rises from his bed, slips on a pair of battered slippers, pulls on a weathered robe, and walks down a second-floor hallway to the library. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Right there in the middle of the office of the president of Ballard Paper Mill. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the Dawson affairs, I quietly served chuckling white folks—the president of Du Pont and the governor of Delaware, among others. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, he came to the station to tell the president that he'd be joining the group later. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His ultimate aspiration was to be president of the United States, which meant his approach to solving the threat would require precision and shrewd calculation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sitting just a few yards from the door to the president's box, Dr. Charles Leale jumped up from his seat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reply posed far more questions than it answered: apparently, Cap had asked about it as part of his duties as eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

On the same day, Bliss told reporters that “the wound looks better than at any time yet,” and the official bulletin described the president as "somewhat restless” and "tranquil.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the president prepared to depart for the train station, the two men talked for a few minutes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the night of Monday, March 15, as seventy million Americans watched on television, the president made his case before a joint session of Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to General Johnson, the president asked, “What is your reaction to Ho’s statement he is ready to fight for twenty years?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the Executive Mansion, the soldiers carried the president’s body in its temporary coffin to the second floor for an autopsy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, he wanted Matty to run for president one day. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Without realizing it, the president set a constitutional crisis in motion when he exited the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Stanton asked to present the declaration to the president of the United States “as an historical part of the proceedings.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Average president knows twice that, he says, sounding like Morgan Freeman. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wes and the other lifers realized that, no matter who the president was, their fate was sealed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The president lay on the waiting room floor, where dozens of people had walked that day, their shoes and boots carrying soot, dirt, and horse manure from the street. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, she told the president she wanted to go to Ford’s Theatre that evening. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what else do you have planned?” asks the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He has played squash with two vice presidents and a secretary of defense. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then, the president’s bodyguards showed up and asked for me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom told me I should tell them there was nothing wrong with being poor, that Abraham Lincoln, the greatest president this country had ever seen, came from a dirt-poor family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“On the fiftieth anniversary,” the president continues, “as a reminder that two rebels died for each Capitol citizen, every district was required to send twice as many tributes.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton, startled by her cry, and fearing that the president had died, rushed into the room and called out loudly, “Take that woman out and do not let her in again.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University, and her otherwise all male class elected her class president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the shots were fired, the president's aide and his friend since college, Colonel Almon Rockwell, was in the station ready to accompany the Garfields on their summer trip. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They grew up made to talk about their feelings a lot, and then his mother became president, and life became less about feelings and more about international relations. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Both presidents were great patriots and signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it is a majestic coincidence that they would both die on the day all Americans celebrate as the birth of this country. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Luckily, my superintendent, Dr. Cohn, and the president of the Board of Education, Karin Po- lacheck, realized that this particular boat needed rocking. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had known John personally and had admired him, hav ing worked for him as a security guard at the Bank of Kansas City when John was president of the bank. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its constitution denounced racialism, its presidents had been from different tribal groups, and it preached the goal of Africans as full citizens of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the gray uniforms begin to converge on me, I think of what my brief future as the assassin of Panem’s new president holds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She said she had been sent by the president to interpret. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the people she contacted was her new friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whom she recruited to serve as president and to write a speech for Anthony to present. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I mean our current president who was the puppet president the day the girls were killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was yesterday’s Vietnam Situation Report, left behind from Johnson’s last day as president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He and the president celebrated with a bottle of French wine and steaks from the White House kitchen. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But before we kick back, relax, and wait for racial justice to trickle down, consider this: Obama chose Joe Biden, one of the Senate’s most strident drug warriors, as his vice president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Woodhull noted that the Constitution didn’t prohibit women from running for president, although they did not yet have the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors can do nothing for the president but monitor his vital signs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I voted last election, same as everyone, and I laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he's one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the Conservative government, he would say, with the backing of the Liberals, was reforming the calendar so that every president could remain in power for a hundred years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By April 1945, Truman had been vice president for three months. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like no handing out flyers for people running for president. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask my mom for help so bad, but if she knows I'm running for president of the class, she’ll get excited. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If I’m elected president,” he said, “I think maybe we will go to the moon.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been elected by the organization as the president,” I said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The presidential election of 1932 sparked a major turning point for American labor unions, bringing pro-labor president Franklin D. Roosevelt into office in 1933, along with a Congress sympathetic to labor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A number of exposition directors held General Electric stock and urged William Baker, president of the fair since Lyman Gage’s April retirement, to accept the bid. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The president had been reluctant to push for voting rights legislation so soon after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the span of about five hours, the carpets had been steamed to help keep Malia’s allergies from being activated by traces of the former president’s dogs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade president was a star now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For the high school paper, Adina had covered a student council scandal in which the student body president had sold test answers in order to buy himself a new SUV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She’s the youngest national League president in history, perhaps the only person in this world Hilly’s afraid of. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She could remember passages after reading them through just once, could recall the dates of the Magna Carta and the names of the kings of England and every one of the presidents in order. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But you gotta learn to chill, Dad. Maybe you can get something like ordinary clothes for yourself while we’re there. You look like you’re the president of the company or something!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The president gives him a withering look over the top of her reading glasses, and he clamps his mouth shut. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Bliss kept saying there was no question that the president would recover. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be the first president of the United States of Puerto Rican descent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I finished telling, she said, “Women are too busy to be running for president of the United States. What are they teaching at that school? Woman president. Hmp.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If there were a club for people who confuse may and might, I would be its president. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president kept saying America was winning the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But when the general heard about the attempt on the president's life, he ordered troops into the streets and to the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And while presidents came and went, this bureaucrat, now thick around the waist and with jowls like a bulldog, remained. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The acoustics in the Fairplex were so poor that none of us could understand a word of what the president was saying. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some called former president Barack Obama the deporter in chief, because his administration deported more undocumented immigrants than any president before him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The president’s proposal for a limited black citizenship and voting rights enraged the racist actor. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leale looked into Rathbone’s eyes and, when he determined that the major was in no immediate danger, rushed to the president’s side. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One idea involved turning the president upside down for several hours and allowing gravity to pull the bullet toward the entry hole, where it could be easily lifted out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An advisor was with him, putting the final touches on the dramatic ending the president had recently come up with. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The day after the April 15 hearing, Bunderson wrote a memo following a long conversation with a local lay official in the Mormon Church, Rod Merrell, who was the president of the Shaws’ region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What made him most indignant was the word that the president of the republic himself planned to be present at the ceremonies in Macondo in order to decorate him with the Order of Merit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was going back to the White House, and this time the president of the United States greeted me—and I have the pictures to prove it! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

News that Powers had not landed as planned in Norway jolted the CIA, and the president was alerted immediately that the U-2 spy plane had almost certainly gone down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to his knees, straddled the president, opened his mouth, stuck two fingers down Lincoln’s throat, and opened an airway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you always do that when the president rides by? If so, I’ll take a job working for him.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following Saturday Lyman Gage announced that he would quit as president of the fair, effective April 1, to tend to his own bank. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Though controversial, the ad was stunningly effective; it destroyed Dukakis’s chances of ever becoming president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, and the fame was his! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House reporters interviewed visitors, including doctors who had been in to see the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was too dumbfounded to react,” Krogh later said of the president’s behavior. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There is more angry discussion, and by the end of the day it is decided: Captain Ratcliffe will no longer be our president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The smell that came out of it made you think of hog pens and maggots and kitchen scraps from back when Nixon was president. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey added, “Well but then again, a guy named Millard Fillmore became president. No loving mother would ever make a Fillmore a Millard, either.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I carried a history with me, and it wasn’t that of presidents or First Ladies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The wet brain matter slowed the ball’s speed, absorbing enough of its energy to prevent it from exiting the other side of the skull through the president’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House staff was careful to hide the president’s true condition, too. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president's staff tried a similar approach that didn't require an outside structure. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s very hard to get somebody to sit on something that doesn’t look right,” says Rob Harvey, who was Herman Miller’s senior vice president of research and design at the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Back in the spring, I’d been promoted to become a vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Step down from your office as president,” they order Captain Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Is it true she gleaned the last president, before the Thunderhead was given control?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Because the president appeared to be out of danger, Vice President Arthur returned to his New York home. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When issues arose, the cabinet departments handled them without the president's input. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They sat on what was once Cherokee land, he said, the land of their red fathers, until the president decided otherwise and ordered them removed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The constant probing with unsterilized fingers and instruments introduced bacteria that the president's body was unable to fight. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I loved and admired the president even more than before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony called the first meeting to order, and Stanton was elected to serve as president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Leale, meanwhile, folds the president’s arms across his chest and carefully smooths his hair. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Corkhill presented Guiteau’s letters addressed to the American people, written before the assassination, in which he explained his plan and motive for killing the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Plus, if I’m running for class president, I have to prove that I have school spirit, and I can’t do that if I don’t show up,” Soojin adds. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Alger Hiss was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, the nation's most prestigious research institute. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

J. Miller McKim, a Quaker, was the president. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Outstanding people left because the atmosphere at the Radiation Laboratory. . . did not make people who dissented feel they were welcome,” observed David Saxon, the future university president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The names on this list are famous ones—prime ministers, presidents, pop stars—and beside each name is an amount of notes offered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This I did, adding that the president of our organization, Chief Luthuli, was a Zulu. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the vice president of somethin’ or other—some office they created when affirmative action was real popular. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could never be president of the United States. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catt also issued a public statement to the president pledging NAWSA’s support of the war effort and accepting Wilson’s invitation to serve on the Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The president’s son rose slowly, shutting the lid of his laptop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Two Secret Service agents shoved Reagan into the presidential limousine, which sped to a nearby emergency room where the president received immediate life-saving treatment. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hold it with dignity and grace, like the president of the United States is supposed to hold the fate of the free world. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be president; I wanted to be a writer. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

John F. Kennedy inherited the scheme when he was inaugurated as president in January 1961. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In that foggy time between sleeping and being awake, before I even open my eyes, I already remember that I am class president. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

While dressing the president’s wound, he accidentally cut himself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s eyes focused on a man behind the podium who identified himself as the president of the Rotary Club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What will happen, they had said, if the president is still seriously ill when Congress re-adjourns in the fall or if a national emergency occurs? Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The president has been shot as his cavalcade went through downtown. Our own Governor Connally was also shot.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Washington became the quasi-monarchical president who could be trusted, Adams became the closet monarchist who could not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I forget who fought in World War II. I can’t name more than ten presidents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The president's lungs, however, showed that he developed pneumonia near the end of his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the president of France reached the gates of Heaven, God got up from his throne to greet him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

You weren’t even a president’s son yet, but you weren't afraid. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The president’s box at Ford’s Theatre was also drenched in blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secret Service wasn't established until July 1865, and even then, it didn't guard the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We face a situation of great opportunity as well as heightened risk,” Westmoreland told the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The president’s grating tone wafts up to my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There they asked someone how to get to the president’s house and were directed to a cove a mile back down the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, who would wanna be seen with two dudes named after a couple of dead presidents anyway?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We,” said Mother firmly, walking back into the kitchen, “are going to that meeting. I was president of the Forest Park PTA, and I have a few things I want to say.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was essential that everyone understood why he had to murder the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They did what the government, the Congress, and the president said had to be done. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It meant that we, who also resembled no other U.S. president and who also had family from faraway places, could one day rise up and do the same thing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of enthusiastic congregants packed the pews at the overwhelmingly black church eager to hear what the first black Democratic nominee for president of the United States had to say. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I rehearsed the arguments that the state president might make and the ones I would put in return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, why should there be a law saying that only a person born in the United States could be president? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Washington had been able to levitate above the partisan factions, “the next president of the United States will only be the president of a party.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was something that the wife of my father’s second favorite living president said. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate and the intimate friend of statesmen and millionaires, suffered a sudden bout of stage fright at his first meeting with a US president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Brown politely informed him again that this wasn't a matter the president would handle. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They have killed the president. You must go to work. My whole dependence is upon you,” the secretary tells him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline is already bugging me to be her running mate when she goes for eighth-grade president next year. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Each day,” Kerry charged, “someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, ‘the first president to lose a war.’ Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then Walter Fried, the president of the American Chess Foundation, who’d just burst into the room, noticed that Fischer was in absentia and declared Reshevsky the winner of the series. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Your vice presidents. Any of the executives in your company. How many are black?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But as the picketing showed no signs of stopping and as the messages on the placards grew more militant, the president became increasingly irritated. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And what of the president—had Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, or did the tyrant still live? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Garfield seemed near death Saturday evening, Blaine recommended that Arthur return to Washington as soon as possible, and the vice president took the night train out of New York. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“People want to participate in our brand because we are an affordable luxury,” said Gene Dunkin, president of Godiva North America, a unit of the Campbell Soup Company. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The president of the club, Dr. Edward Lasker, welcomed everyone, thanked them for coming, and then began a litany of Bobby’s many accomplishments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I’m dressed in my indi'gena clothes, sitting with the other queens at a long table with the president’s daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one stood between him and the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if I believed a woman could be president, but if Danny the K said it would never happen, I had to believe the opposite. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a dam good thing we never had any kings and presidents; we’d all be down there at Jackson chasing butterflies. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked to see Mr. Foster, the president of the bank. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

King was painfully aware he could—would—irrevocably destroy his partnership with the president by unequivocally speaking out against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Presidents come here again to attend plays, but out of respect for Abraham Lincoln, none sits in the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ralph Joseph, my math teacher, explained to my class how presidential succession took place and told us Lyndon Johnson had become our new president. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the names of presidents and what order they served in. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was evident from the moment Lawrence stepped off the train in Boston that Harvard president James B. Conant had more on his mind than hearing his lecture. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I made it clear, however, that I would be president in my own right,” he said later, “and that I would assume full responsibilities for such decisions as had to be made.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guiteau expected the president to come through this area because he had seen him use the B Street entrance twice before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was a poor boy from a poor village,” El Patron began, addressing the assembled presidents, dictators, generals, and other famous people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson had repeatedly said, “I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Another stays until midnight, when a fourth man takes the graveyard shift, posting himself outside Lincoln’s bedroom or following the president through the White House when he cannot sleep. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the case seemed to have little impact on Southam’s professional standing: soon after the end of his probationary period, Southam was elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I later met with the president, explained the case of mistaken identity, and he offered generous material assistance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the most entrenched traditions of Mess Night was that a man could not exit to relieve himself until the dinner was completed unless the president of the Mess granted permission. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the votes were tallied, Stanton was elected president, Anthony was elected vice president, and Stone became chair of the executive committee.Stanton accepted the position but returned to England immediately after the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This would be done with the full knowledge of the state president, Coetsee said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the president of the United States had to go to school if he wanted to get into Georgetown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone—including Johnson—had assumed he would seek a second full term as president, but he knew now his chances of reelection were bleak. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He still wasn't permitted to see the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This warder said that I must cease discussing politics, and I told him that I was dealing with a matter of national importance involving an offer from the state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel looked at me hurriedly, his eyes saying, Was that guy a president? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

If New York City had never had a woman as our mayor, how would the country elect a woman to be president? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicker to the president and back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The National Guard was unable to restore calm, and the president ordered nearly 5,000 army troops onto the streets of Detroit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of them, David Saxon, an MIT- trained physicist, would become president of the University of California in 1975. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even as the waves of shock and recrimination roll over the Capitol, the people there will be waiting, as I am now, to hear about the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Bit young to be living so rough,” the bum said, and I wanted to laugh at the irony of being told off by a man who clearly hadn’t showered since Clinton was president. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He picked up the phone and dialed the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“More than a singer. She ran for president that year.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about his trial,” the president instructed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Reyburn kept the official notes on the president's condition, which were used to make public announcements. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Learn from Captain Smith—President Smith. Do you know why he is well liked as president while President Wingfield and President Ratcliffe were not?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are answers to these questions, but they are difficult to swallow when millions of Americans have displayed a willingness to elect a black man president of the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The states had worried so much about a future autocratic president that the federal government had inadvertently created a constitutional crisis for the one currently in office. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Some said that picketing had become “little less than criminal” and called it the most outrageous of the “foolish, childish methods you have used trying to harass our overburdened president.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You are the president of the Dalton Real Estate Company, are you not?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was simply having lunch with the Lions Club, of which he was past president now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plaques and awards lined the walls, along with photos of the mayor with presidents, prime ministers, and everyday Baltimoreans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He and the president have repeated this scene hundreds of times, with Lincoln responding in kind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was editor of the school magazine, president of his class, played half-back on the football team, and was an honor student. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one of his final acts, Gorbachev passed the Soviet nuclear codes—which could initiate a nuclear missile launch—to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the right, in the smoky distance, the president saw the banners of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West flying over the arena Colonel Cody had built at Sixty-second Street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In 1936 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invited Anderson to sing at the White House for the president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and their invited guests. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear the news? I was elected president of the Chumley Prep Philosophy Club. My friends and I started it a few minutes ago.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the level below, government employees flowed in and out of the building, while somewhere above, the president and First Lady lived with their Scottish terriers in the family residence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As eighth grade president, I was in charge of the Halloween dance, and I was giving it the Rishon treatment. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

On the podium, Mr. de Klerk was first sworn in as second deputy president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In defending these new standards, David Coleman, president of the College Board and one of the architects of the Common Core, seemed to equate reading and writing that is not purely fact-based with self-indulgence. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was the first Puerto Rican president of the United States. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Capricorn Anderson was elected eighth grade president, unopposed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re as bad as Juniper. I think she wants me to run for president next.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had been elected president of my class, and I found myself suddenly involved in student politics. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you picked the wrong person to be president.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The president has moved to an undisclosed location. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I had recently become national president of the Youth League, and in my new role I urged that the campaign should be exclusively African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time he left the rocker that Úrsula had bought for his convalescence, and, walking about the bedroom, he dictated a strong message to the president of the republic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if she sings from the top of the Washington Monument,” the president told Ickes, “as long as she sings.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

After the cabinet meeting ended, the president followed his usual routine: receiving visits from friends and job seekers, reading his mail, and catching up on paperwork. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never, for the rest of my life, say one word about my unfortunate affair with the president. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Good morning. I am Derrick Noble, president of the student body. Welcome to Central High School.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said that he was exactly the kind of smart, decent president I would choose for this country, even if selfishly I’d have rather kept him closer to home all these years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At disarmament talks, moreover, he had developed the disturbing habit of offering the Russians concessions that had not been approved by the president or Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Caesar Flickerman asks if the president has a date in mind. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One night, these people surrounded the palace and told the old president that he had to leave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as truthfully, I could’ve told him I was class president. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around 7:00 P.M., fifteen hours since the assassins had arrived at Mudd’s door, and just under twenty hours since John Wilkes Booth had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me a moment,” I tell the president’s daughter, and put my napkin on my chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new president lived up to his promise to ease restrictions on political gatherings and permitted the march to take place, only asking that the demonstrators remain peaceful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been granted a short leave to travel to Washington and see his dad get sworn in as vice president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Come on in, Major,” the president said to Cooper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Vice President Gerald R. Ford was immediately sworn in as the new president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Yes, sir. That's what the president tells us. You have yours, and you got it yourself, and we have to lift ourselves up the same way." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president, a small, thin man with paper-white hair, gives the official welcome from a balcony above us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When he spotted the president, Guiteau followed him to the Blaine house, hanging several yards back on the opposite sidewalk so that Garfield didn't see him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, the president’s speeches became required viewing. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Prudent is a Republican word that Dad’s second-favorite living president used a lot. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw that our president wanted to do the right thing for black people, and it gave us faith. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall above her head is a picture of her favorite president—William Jefferson Clinton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Donovan’s right-hand man—James Roosevelt, the president’s oldest son—did some arm-twisting, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They turned their thoughts to the president and the rest of the cabinet. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secretary to the president of Schultz Sausages was back on the job. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had to look at all the pictures—Jeff in a tuxedo at his freshman prom, Jeff being sworn in as president of his sophomore class, Jeff shaking hands with somebody important. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventies, as more and more Americans spoke out against affirmative action, university presidents were forced to take the defense. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was his appointment of Federalists to several vacant judgeships during his last weeks as president. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Truman watched everyone get up and silently file out—everyone except Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who walked around the long table and up to the president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The start of World War II had made it tough to get an appointment with the president, but he’d finally made it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a letter from the president of all the San Jose group homes, addressed to Lester. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it would do any good to see the president?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans elected A new president, Richard Nixon, who had campaigned on a promise to bring “an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The president was just talking tough, just pumping himself up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

How the incoming president would have resolved this impasse if Jefferson had agreed to resume the collaboration is impossible to know. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he assisted Henry Ford II with restructuring the Ford Foundation, of which he would later serve as president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The marchers shouted their respects to the president, but a few windows farther, at the Chancellery, they spotted Hitler standing on the balcony. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From New York City came an offer of help, twelve hours after Stanton had asked its chief of police to send his finest detectives to Washington to help track the president’s killer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Today, July second, 1964,” he said, “the president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House....” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always been a team player, but this time I felt so much personal pressure from the president. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa's wife is nice, smart, and she believes women can run for president. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the former president knew what a bloody gash to his leg really meant, especially in the unknown and unforgiving jungle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

President Bush's order was closely based on former president Roosevelt's proclamation to try the Nazi saboteurs in a military tribunal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some- times it started in the pulpit and sometimes with a new ambitious president of the Women’s Civic Club. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The president hears footsteps on the gravel and the familiar voice of former Illinois congressman Isaac Arnold calling his name. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Calling the president of the United States a “kaiser” was an outrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our only hope for survival might be in building cities deep underground like the one Dad said the army built to protect the president and all the self-important government people. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor leaned back and saw the president’s lungs filling on their own. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon—eighteen hours after the president's death—he made his first incision into Garfield's wasted body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Everything,” he said, but before I could ask what the hell that meant, he added, “Who was the fourteenth president of the US?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He was president of the junior class now, would undoubtedly be elected president of the senior class, and none of that mattered anymore. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The few pieces of information the president did obtain were often second- or thirdhand and usually vague in nature. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Outside Ford’s Theatre, bewildered pedestrians joined the crowd of theater patrons and hovered near the front doors awaiting the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then two years later, she chained herself to the door of the university president's office. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president stands on the edge of a career-ending scandal, measures her breaths evenly, and waits for her son to answer. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had been president of the school’s Equestrian Club. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd seemed to quiet down, and the next thing I heard, clearly, was the voice of the president giving a speech. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Secret Service had cleared everything out, shutting down an entire section of Lake Shore Drive, blocking every intersection along the route—a standard precaution for a president, we’d soon learn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He confessed that he participated in Booth’s earlier scheme to kidnap the president, but he denied involvement in, or knowledge of, the assassination plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even bank presidents found themselves acutely aware of the tricky diplomacy of east-west relations in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Steve Spiegel, then president of Music Theatre International, the leading licensing agent for Broadway productions, who made the decision on what high school would be asked to pilot the play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be Franklin Salisbury Jr., president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now people were treating the eighth grade president like—well, like an eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The acting vice president of the United States, Thomas W. Ferry, stood at the podium. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like being president was part of registering and choosing electives. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Evidence of her guilt was conflicting, but she was found guilty of conspiracy in the president’s murder and sentenced to hang. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The president was again in France for a peace conference, but he took time out to cable a message to the new Congress encouraging support of the suffrage amendment, among other measures. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The president of the bank, Jezdimir Vasiljevic, had given his executives the authority to offer a purse of $5 million with one stipulation: The match had to commence in three weeks in Yugoslavia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

James Ford walked to the Treasury Department a few blocks away to borrow several flags to decorate the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rathbone rose from his seat and stepped in the direction of the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now we honor our third Quarter Quell,” says the president. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s murder gave my teachers and parents and pastor the perfect opportunity to talk with us children about death and dying, about bombings and hatred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He found his way down a pink-wallpapered hallway and into a room with a huge wooden desk that looked like the kind of place where a president might sign a bill into law. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Remember when Margaret Evans and I tied for senior class president and we drew straws to decide the winner? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet he was as determined as ever not to go down in history as the first American president to lose a war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Many people, Thomas Jefferson and future president James Madison included, felt that Washington could not legally convene Congress anywhere but within the city limits of Philadelphia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“We ought to proceed with Japan in a way which will produce as quickly as possible her surrender,” Stimson told the president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to the president's bed, Tainter moved the detector above the right side of Garfield's abdomen, where his doctors believed the bullet had ended up. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She dressed each day as if she were on her way to a meeting with the president. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“No American president, Republican or Democrat, wanted to be the president who lost the war or who lost Saigon,” Ellsberg realized. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A new president was in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a distant cousin of that most upbeat and energetic of presidents, Teddy Roosevelt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations. You’re now the president of the junior class. It’ll look good on your college resume, assuming colleges still exist a year from now.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sweeping her left arm dramatically in DuShawn’s direction, she lets out with, “DuShawn Carter—the Freedom Party’s candidate for president of the Student council!” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But obscurely, behind the scenes, was a white boss—a president, or board chairman, or some other title, pulling the real strings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, Grant is even more beloved than the president right now. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

His father, Guy Waterman, is a musician and freelance writer who, among other claims to modest fame, authored speeches for presidents, ex-presidents, and other prominent Washington politicians. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly implementing policies about South Vietnam was nothing new for the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Also, I really wanted to witness Hillary Clinton become the first female president. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The housemaster was the delightful Reverend S. S. Mokitimi, who later became the first African president of the Methodist Church of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The president of the United States has died.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was confident the new president would give him a valuable role in his administration, preferably a diplomatic appointment. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the president was in charge of picking the judge, picking the jury, controlling the evidence, and controlling the rules. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Neither of these conditions was present during Adams’s term as president. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He returned to Haiti in mid-October 1994, the day Aristide was reinstated as president, about three years after he had been deposed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for the WCTU, it elected Frances Willard as its president. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Around him, crews adjusted lights and cameras, setting up for the president’s final broadcast. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Truman hurried into the White House and was taken up to the second floor, to an office used by Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The craft union officials also sought the help of the president of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sidwell Friends appealed to us for a lot of reasons, including the fact that it was the school Chelsea Clinton had attended when her father was president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His brother, Joel, chairman of the board of another hospital, asked his hospital’s president to call New York University. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I asked Secretary McNamara to invite you here to counsel with you on these problems and the ways to meet them,” the president began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cost of the Mark I had already doubled from the original estimate of $10 million, and CRD’s president, Fred Powell, was forced to question “the wisdom of continuing further research and development work.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

First, Booth tells them that the precise time of the president’s assassination will be ten fifteen P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The president of Hampton Institute reached out to Parks, offering her a job as a hostess at the university’s faculty dining room, the Holly Tree Inn. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I'm expecting her to say be president, or an astronaut, or a film star, or a billionaire CEO, or the queen of a tropical isle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He invited the president of France, the president of the United States, the president of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China, as well as our own president, His Excellency, the President for Life Papa Doc Duvalier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Asked by journalists why he didn’t just cut American losses and leave Vietnam, Johnson repeated a pledge he had made many times: “I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As former US vice president Al Gore has stated, “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more...the future of human civilization is at stake.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The president wanted to know who had ordered the job. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, the president is laid down diagonally on the red, white, and blue bedspread. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On July 17, the president's four doctors informed Corkhill that, though they anticipated full recovery, they couldn't absolutely rule out death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the powerful president of the University of North Carolina in neighboring Chapel Hill was not immune from these attacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In March 2009, he left WHO and Harvard to become the seventeenth president of Dartmouth—the first Asian American president of any Ivy League university. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The same score reflects more ability when you come from a less fortunate background,” Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The new president faced a daunting task in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was fine seeing the presidents, I’ve got nothing against the presidents, but you’d think the Sioux would be mighty sad to have those white faces carved into their sacred hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll tell you one more thing. Hilly Holbrook’s not getting my vote for League president in January. Or ever again, for that matter.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The great colleges and universities were designed to provide for mobility, to seek out talent,” said Anthony W. Marx, president of Amherst College. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Though I was in shock, I finally got out: “Does that mean the vice president’s in charge?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not even Papi was the first Puerto Rican president of the United States. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He'd sent his wishes for her recovery in two of his many letters to the president, all of which were intercepted by White House staff before reaching Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since my opinion of the Capitol and its noble president is already so low, I can’t say Finnick’s allegations shock me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It looks really bad that the president allowed me to go to prison, and people will often try to tap what they imagine to be my considerable wellspring of anger. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Who knows, for an achievement like this, I might even be elevated from seventh-grade president to president of everybody. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

This didn’t please the anxious president, who had already been out of touch with critically important matters for over six weeks. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was a sign of his humility and selflessness that he wanted to appoint me president, but it was not in keeping with the principles of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The unit had been given a critical responsibility by the president.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But based on the president's condition after two days, Agnew and Hamilton believed that no organs had been injured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The system makes a false promise to students,” said John T. Casteen III, the president of the University of Virginia, himself the son of a Virginia shipyard worker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To think he was discontented because he was only class vice president. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There had been no time to mail it, so its sender, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, had used the president’s messenger to hand-deliver it to the owners of Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the president had to be able to rattle off the names of all eleven hundred of his constituents or else he wasn’t qualified. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As president, he also had to keep the other guys in line, keep them psyched up, ready to help make Archie’s assignments work. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his own vice president, John Adams, conceded that Washington seemed dazed and wholly scripted at certain public ceremonies, like an actor reading his lines or an aging athlete going through the motions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Washington had been threatening to retire even before he was inaugurated as president in 1789, and he had repeated the threat in 1792 prior to his reelection. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many educated adults would be left out of a discussion that criticized the president for not engaging in more “quantitative easing,” though they would understand the process if it were spelled out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The contents of Atzerodt’s room at the Kirkwood, plus Booth’s “Sam” letter, suggested that the vice president had also been marked for death. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ran for vice president,” I told him. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Arnold was a faithful supporter of Lincoln during the war’s darkest hours, and the resulting dip in the president’s popularity cost Arnold his seat in the Flouse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Robinson took over as president of the WPC in 1950, she led a successful campaign to make white merchants include the titles “Mr.,” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In April 1865, Barnes and Bliss were among the several physicians who gathered by the dying president's bed in the boardinghouse across from Ford's Theatre. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t want to be treasurer. I want to be president.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The president swore to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States when he took office. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m giving my advice to the president. I have an idea.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And now, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce our short-story contest winners, here’s Marsha Priest, president of the Hamilton Plaza Library Literacy Foundation!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Although Roosevelt was one of the most popular presidents to ever hold office, the Republican Party gave their support to Taft, the current president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He ran to a phone booth in the hall and called Harding Bancroft, the paper’s executive vice president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In a photo I have of the day our new president came to visit the monument, I’m standing in front of the house, all made up, my hair in a bouffant style. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president allows a few moments of unrest, and then continues in her brisk fashion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Stanton’s operators could wire news and orders all over the country—and soon telegraph lines across the nation were announcing the news: The president has been assassinated and the secretary of state attacked. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Purvis noted that the president's breathing was weak and his skin pale and clammy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Speaking of Oppenheimer’s call for candor, he advised the president, “The campaign is dangerous and its proposals fatal.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It occurs to him that no American president has ever been assassinated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was heavy, and he’d called ahead to request that an easel be set up in the president’s office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And where one day, I bet, a Jewish girl will be president if she wants to be. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When news got out that a federal armory with 100,000 rifles and a great deal of ammunition was in the hands of a small band of lunatics, the president, James Buchanan, dispatched Lt. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A framed black-and-white photograph of the nation’s thirty-third president occupies a wall just inside the front entrance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Less conspiratorial voices pointed at the Stalwarts’ harsh criticisms of the president that had provoked a man like Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In mid-July, District Attorney Corkhill gave the press Guiteau's confession, in which he described planning the shooting, buying the gun, and following the president around Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first, they tried to enlist Minerva, but she deferred to Manolo, who became our president. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

July Fourth festivities on Monday were subdued as Americans waited to learn whether their president had survived the assassin's bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Cap Anderson was the greatest person it’s ever been my honor to know. How are we ever going to get along without our president?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She left her home and hurried to the White House, arriving just as the president was brought up to his room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the game was over, the president left without saying anything to us. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier that day, Germany’s aging president, Paul von Hindenburg, had appointed Hitler chancellor, making him the second-most powerful man in the country. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though overwhelmed by the responsibility being placed on his shoulders, he felt absolutely committed to the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Malia had been eight when Barack sat on the edge of her bed in Chicago and asked if she thought it was okay for him to run for president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer was very popular in school, especially among the girls, and he became president of his senior class. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A butler overheard the president speculating on what he’d do if Japanese forces advanced as far as Chicago. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And very technically, sayyedi are the only ones allowed to be presidents—you can tell cause they wear the green turbans. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In a phone call with the president a few days later, King backpedaled on his comments, trying to soften them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“So, I decided to run for class president,” Soojin declares confidently, and then peers at me, waiting for my reaction. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

As Alvarez related Bush’s explanation, “I think the reason the president chose me is that he does not trust Dr. Oppenheimer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Yet the job of being president didn't get easier. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You’d think a boy that has been the president of the class and student representative on the PTA would know how to walk into a room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was bitter because she thought if everything was the same, except for her race, she would have been made vice president. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It is not to be released on Japan without express authority from the president,” George Marshall ordered Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember Ms. Morales, who was PTO president at Lakeside the year before last?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He sat at the head of the table, drinking red wine and talking drily of French presidents whom he had met, of the French universities that had offered him jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And indeed, one of America’s most famous actors stands just yards away as the president speaks. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was not going to be the president who lost the war and let that happen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought he said the president sent him here.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drove to a hotel in West Los Angeles to vote for your president. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Richard Nixon is not fit to be president,” Ellsberg heard Kissinger proclaim at Rand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lawrence Robertson was still president of the corporation; Alfred Lanning had become director of research. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As usual in times of military crisis, the public rallied around the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Alone with their patient, the doctors worked quickly, removing the president’s clothes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty women met and formed the Mothers’ Club, electing a young mother named Joyce Thorpe president of the group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The secretary of state, in charge of foreign affairs, was considered the most influential cabinet member, more essential than the vice president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Vice President Andrew Johnson was not present when Lincoln died, so the cabinet sent him an official notification of the president’s death and of his succession to the presidency. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel so lucky that we have him for a president. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herold replied, his voice trembling, “We are the assassinators of the president! ...Yonder is J. Wilkes Booth, the man who killed the president.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the girls said women should run for president if they wanted to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had been seated next to Dr. Bledsoe, but so concerned had I been with the president that I hadn't really seen him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need all four of you suited up and aboveground,” says the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Just two years later that brown-haired young man was elected to Congress and eventually became president of the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the president ten days more to live, at the most. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the woman who’s the borough president announced that the city was sponsoring a street fair on 145th Street, I saw a chance to cheer Peaches up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our judge in the Rivonia Trial was Mr. Quartus de Wet, judge- president of the Transvaal, who sat in his flowing red robes beneath a wooden canopy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Did he want to tell Americans that one of the candidates for president was sabotaging his effort to end the Vietnam War? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Across the wide expanse ringed by grand buildings sits the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Despite the news blackout, Guiteau gleaned information about the president's medical progress from the guards. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the first blows came from the highest level, the president of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He anticipated that the public would initially be angry with him for shooting the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While the disposal is running, I try to detour my mind—recite the Constitution, list the presidents in order, remember the names of the seven dwarfs—I can’t stop thinking that she called me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Now, with Lee’s army out of Petersburg and the Union army in control of the city, Grant asks the president to meet him there. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

At that session of the NEC I was elected deputy president of the organization while Alfred Nzo, the organization’s secretary-general, was named acting president while Oliver was recuperating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The US Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the White House. Did you know that plans for a monument started before Washington was elected president?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was now the home of Brazil’s president, Hermes da Fonseca, and it was where Roosevelt would be staying. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The new American president, John F. Kennedy, refused to be bullied, demanding hard intelligence about the Soviet Union's military capabilities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Zachary Taylor was a president,” I told him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know, on behalf of the president, if Byrne might be interested. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No one said anything and the next thing we heard was “We just have word: The president is dead.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Reich president Paul von Hindenburg has just formed a new government! Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party, has been sworn into office as the new chancellor of the Reich!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes lit up and she said, “Then we ask the class to vote by show of hands. Should a woman run for president or not?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After the war, Lee became president of Washington University in Lexington, Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The site where the president was killed is still where everybody goes if they visit Dallas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, utterly thrilled by Jim’s gridiron prowess, was elected as president of the Big Creek Football Fathers’ Association. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse could hardly comprehend a Congress that would care about a presidents sex life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the students a list of presidents and all their vice presidents and told us there would be a test in a week. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I called Jesse up one day to tell him the president had been impeached. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth recruited Surratt into the conspiracy to kidnap the president, and soon became a frequent visitor to the boardinghouse, where he befriended Surratt’s widowed mother and his young sister, Anna. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Agnew and Hamilton entered the sickroom on Sunday morning, July 24, they were alarmed to find the president covered with sweat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The left side of the president’s body turned toward the audience, he faced the stage below. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is my quote: My mother, the president, still fully intends to win this race. We’re here to support her and to encourage the party to stay united behind her.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This time he was led into a reception room where dozens of other men and women were waiting to see the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After the president had been in bed for a week, Bliss decided that he was strong enough for the three oldest children to visit. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In early July he persuaded Albert Einstein to put his name to a letter alerting the president of the United States to the threat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since Lucy was the vice president of a regional Dolly Parton fan club until a few years ago, their paths crossed on a regular basis. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He asked the general whose job it was to schedule the deployment of troops if the president had changed his mind. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How is it...? I mean, how can he make the sound of a crowd and the voice of the president...?” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Quiet the discontent and put the president’s mind at rest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a closely guarded secret that Roosevelt had injured his eye during a boxing match while he was president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my father took me to the barbershop around the corner one Saturday morning, but my regular barber—also the school board president—was not behind his chair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been vice-president at the time when the real president, McKinley, had been shot in a provincial city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tight on the Capitol seal on a wing, which melts back into the image of my face, shouting at the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In May 1991, when I was sixteen years old, the rebels drove the president out of the country and set up a new government that was friendly with Northern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care much for the president because of the way he held his beagles by the ears. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is so funny to me that Chelsea says James’s whole name like he is a celebrity or a president, or someone important enough to be called by his full name. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The idea of the president fighting back against the young leaping and sword-fighting actor is not as farfetched as it sounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Philippines—Although Bobby was adored by the Philippine chess community and had established ties there, he was unhappy with the ouster of president Joseph Estrada, whom he believed was “pushed out illegally.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, she was the executive vice president at a real-estate firm and a trustee at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After that, the president could recuperate in the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Eighth grade president isn’t a real job,” I seethed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Bliss claimed that he had chosen his permanent medical staff at the request of the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I have sort of a history, me being president of the art club. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He carried messages from the Aztlan and U.S. presidents, but they wouldn’t do much good if he got blown out of the sky. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his last acts as president was to place on file in the State Department his rejoinder to Bache’s accusations, which historians have long since discovered were based on forged English documents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Black children today can even dream of being president of the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make up my mind about women with big mouths running for president or about Miss Marva Hendrix. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A little more than a month later, in August 1989, P. W. Botha went on national television to announce his resignation as state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October of 1795 Aaron Burr visited Monticello, presumably to discuss the delivery of New York’s electoral votes, probably as a condition for his own place on the ticket as vice president. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

An article written exclusively for the Saturday Evening Post after the bombing captured the president’s reaction this way: “President Kennedy, echoing the national temper, said he felt a ‘deep sense of outrage and grief.’” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The New York group also carried a letter to deliver to new president Woodrow Wilson as they passed through Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Townshend lowered it so that the president's legs were above the level of his head and blood could flow to his brain and other organs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the method didn't lower the room temperature enough to bring relief to the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s an international club for business and professional people, like the mayor of Santa Maria and the president of Bank of America,” he responded. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Second, Jeffrey Richards committed a hostile act of conspiracy against a sitting president, and I am eagerly awaiting the federal investigation that is coming to him once he loses this election. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Unaccustomed to democracy, many Germans had little faith in their president and elected Reichstag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She joins me at the window, confirms she knows our location, and gives me the good news that we aren’t many blocks from the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The banner covers the building’s former name, some dead president they shot. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was I undeniably adorable, I was also the student body president of our elementary school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So, too, with the presidents of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A president came in, an invasion failed — both in meaningless suspension. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the blessing of both Sargo and Argentina’s president, Hellmuth was going to seek closer ties between his country and Hitler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This is no time to vote for a president when there’s nothing to be president of.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Today Cascadian is owned by General Mills, and Kahn is a General Mills vice president. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The mere arrival of the White House messenger told them that the president was coming to the theater tonight! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As poverty became a growing problem in the new republic, he called the meeting that organized the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and was elected its first president. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one photograph, on a balcony above the stands, a young man with a black mustache and wearing a top hat gazes down on the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spoken extensively with both Coetsee and Dr. Barnard about this meeting, and they had always advised me to avoid controversial issues with the president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president doesn’t seem alarmed, only somewhat perplexed, by this turn in events. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Our bodies were held in bondage by the early presidents. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That infection, the report said, eventually entered the bloodstream and spread throughout the president's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Matt, as the new seventh grade student council president, takes charge. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

One president’s furniture gets carried out while another’s comes in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All the presidents, I believe they had their points to make. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! I’m the president of the United States. I don’t have to swallow.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It took the president’s going on national television to give people a vision for a better future. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a trading store and later became president of a bank. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve been a vice president at a hospital and the director of a nonprofit that helps young people build meaningful careers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

About the president’s visit, about Gale, about how we’re all going to die if I fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he exited onto Tenth Street, he noticed the president’s carriage, parked and waiting to take Lincoln back home. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or do I see the president fixated on me as well? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Especially since six months had already passed since Hahn’s discovery, and the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, still had no idea that such a thing as fission even existed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president was responding well to the sea air, they said. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president replied that he felt a prickling sensation in his right foot and leg. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was not invited to Washington to meet the president until many years later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started getting phone calls from former professors, and the president of Harvard. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president and First Lady greeted me warmly. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Captain John Smith will be our new president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Worse, they saw the college president as trading on his skin color to prove a solidarity with the black residents of Edgemont, a solidarity that did not, in fact, exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sixteenth president of the United States of America did not, as you might imagine, speak in a rich chocolaty baritone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In light of that opinion, the district attorney announced that he would wait until the president's situation was certain before moving forward with his case against Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom canvassed for your mom when she ran for Congress back in the day, so like, we go way back. She’s the first president I ever voted for.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about suffrage; why you have opposed the president; the whole history of your campaign; why you picket; what you hope to accomplish by it.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Victoria Woodhull wanted respect, both as a suffragist and as a candidate for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The TV says the governor has asked the president to declare a state of emergency. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then, Congress assigned the duty of guarding the president to the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You could turn up your nose at the president or Coke or even God, but there were names for boys who didn't like sports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The president, Harry S. Truman, was negotiating with black leaders to integrate the armed forces. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He strips Lincoln to the waist and continues the search, cutting off the president’s white shirt with a pocketknife. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Through the untiring efforts of Marjorie White, president of the Birmingham Historical Society, the church earned the national historic landmark status. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The president rode a few paces behind, calmly smiling and waving at the crowd. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d been elected president, he could put his plan into action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations,” said the president of the university, loudly, again. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Blaine came home, she sat at the dining table, watching him chop fresh basil in the kitchen, and said, “If only the man who wrote this book could be the president of America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The president’s orders for an air strike on North Vietnam had reached the Constellation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Also its vice president, treasurer, and recording secretary. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton wrote to the president of the Centennial Commission, General Joseph Roswell Hawley of Connecticut, and asked for fifty tickets to the ceremony. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a big deal, with the daughter of the president of Ecuador coming. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to make the shadow pass over all the clean, startled faces, all those who believe in president grandfathers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shocked and in despair, people couldn't believe it had happened again to one of their presidents. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the boys asked whether they were anywhere near the president’s estate, the couple nodded enthusiastically and announced that they were standing on it, then pointed out the way to the main house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Despite the early hour, hundreds more well-wishers joined the procession behind the president or stood along the sidewalk silently paying tribute to him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But at age seventy-four, the president, CEO, and commander in chief of this here army still has the power. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what the branch president says after he sees the Gestapo sitting in the back of the church, taking notes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctant to face hostile voters, the president began to feel like a prisoner in the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she looked at Richard M. Nixon, she saw what a president should look like. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As former US president Barack Obama has warned, “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem. It is happening here. It is happening now.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Each president, of course, had hoped to win, and had wanted to win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spoke to you for the first time when I was eighteen, on the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, when I introduced my mother as the nominee for president. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it means to grow up with a black president, social networks, omnipresent media, and black women everywhere in their natural hair. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

While I was trying to think up an excuse to leave, Dad leaned forward and predicted, “Dwight David Eisenhower will be the last good president this country will have for a very, very long time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The opening ceremony was scheduled to begin, would begin, on Monday morning with a parade from the Loop to Jackson Park, led by the new president of the United States, Grover Cleveland. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Football, of course. And as the eighth grade president, you have an important role.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The federation president gave Bobby a deed for more than an acre of land in Elista, his capital city. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In April, at a speech in Philadelphia, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson sparked the president’s wrath by gently suggesting the United States might try harder to find a negotiated settlement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In that era of anti-Communist hysteria, when anyone in America who read Karl Marx’s Das Kapital or wore a red tie was thought to be a Communist, the president of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The issue concerned a minor matter of etiquette: How should the president be addressed by members of Congress? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During their leisurely ride, the president told his wife that they must try to be happy again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president of the United States could not die in a theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man named Roosevelt promises to fix that if he is elected president. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was reassured whenever the president addressed the nation to let them know the government was working hard to solve all the problems. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Arriving in Savannah after an overnight trip, Marian and her mother were greeted warmly by school officials and were put up at the home of the college president. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Standing before her and the president, I felt a jolt of pride. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Each president had done just enough to avoid “losing” South Vietnam before the next election. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone refused to run for president of the new group. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

What officer is designated by the Constitution to be president of the Senate of the United States? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about the new president or for that matter the old president, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The president wanted his enemies to think that America's defenses were impenetrable. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But now, with word that the president will be in the audience, the night should be a sellout. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Lamb testified that the wound had been a mortal one from which the president couldn't have recovered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tensions between Stanton and Johnson got so bad that in 1868 the president fired Stanton. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You get more coverage than the president, the pope, and the queen of England put together. All good stuff.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, clergymen, college presidents, and other self-appointed spokesmen for communal standards of morality seized upon the Burr-Hamilton encounter to launch a crusade against dueling throughout most of the northern states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Less than four weeks later, on April 12, the president was dead of a massive stroke at the age of sixty-three. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now the president was ready for Mary to see him again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Next year you could run for president! ” she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The group elected Stanton as president and Anthony as secretary. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The assassin of the president was in there, injured, desperate, and on the run from a manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspapers reported that the president was beginning his vacation the next morning, July 2. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Any spots on the walls not taken up by books were covered with pictures of American presidents and various Roosevelts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Abandoning his strict constructionism, Roberts unilaterally amended the Constitution and had Obama “solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The president wanted to see me, so I went over to his house, which was about a mile away. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucretia was unaware that a controversy was already brewing about Bliss’s treatment of the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next May, the president of the society remarked parenthetically that the past year had not yielded any particularly noteworthy discoveries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, all the presidents of all the big companies refer to themselves as “T. W.” or “J. B.” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid impeachment by the House of Representatives, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, the first American president ever to do so. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth came and lost his savings, then went off to kill a president, but others stayed and made a fortune. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The men each have something to say: “You were the best president we ever had, sir.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This became the nation’s first “summer White House,” and presidents ever since have followed the tradition by establishing their own warm-weather residences. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A smaller limousine delivered the Coconut Cove mayor, Councilman Bruce Grandy, and the chamber of commerce president to the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tradition called for me to provide a kind of gentle light, flattering the president with my devotion, flattering the nation primarily by not challenging it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Though everyone could see that the former president was noticeably thinner—he had lost fifty-five pounds on the expedition—they had no idea how momentous it was that Roosevelt was even alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When you’re married to the president, you come to understand quickly that the world brims with chaos, that disasters unfurl without notice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I'm awfully sorry, sir," I said, worried lest he report me to Dr. Bledsoe, the president, who would refuse to allow me to drive again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the president drove off in his carriage, Guiteau walked around the side of the building to an open window near Garfield's pew. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was deeply saddened by my president’s death. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The president of the republic sent him a telegram of condolence in which he promised an exhaustive investigation and paid homage to the dead men. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Few men could have successfully followed Abraham Lincoln as president, but Andrew Johnson proved particularly inept. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Washingtonians could walk through the lawns and gardens as they wished and even approach the president if they saw him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The former president told Rondon that a detailed map was costing them too much time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The American president, J « Harry Truman, had petitioned Congress to allow tens of thousands of concentration camp survivors to immigrate to the United States. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was upset when I found out I was running against George Harshbarger for president. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The idea of Chester Arthur becoming president alarmed many American voters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The group sponsored a rally at the Durham County Stadium that attracted 3,500 whites, who applauded the racist rhetoric of Roy Harris, president of the national organization. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The point, in fact, was to be unsubtle—to send a clear message to the world that nobody could harm the president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the annual convention in February 1900, Susan B. Anthony resigned as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Only he knew whether the prayers were for the president's soul or for his own life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We put a suggestion box in the guidance office, for students to bring their concerns to the president’s attention. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was a poet, or a college president, or a movie star; he drank expensive whisky, and he smoked Lucky Strike cigarettes in the green package. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In 2008, Wes and many of his fellow inmates followed the presidential campaign closely, hoping for the election of the first black president in American history. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He ended with a tribute to the fallen president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No one could imagine this happening in the president’s backyard. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She wanted the grand procession to take place on March 3, 1913, the day before the inaugural parade for the twenty-eighth president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Manifest Victory Quilt will be auctioned off to the highest bidder during the New Year’s festivities at the Manifest depot following the president’s quilt signing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

No fans pushed the air, however, and by the time the air reached the president, it was no longer cold. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, the National Executive Committee appointed me as first deputy president, in addition to my position as president of the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you got a Democrat president, you got a war president. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becky was president, and she was always telling the others what to do. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate explosion of fireworks in the water tower—and subsequent dousing of the president and the newly signed victory quilt—was a somewhat surprising turn of events. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Addie: Well, we have to come up with a candidate for president by tomorrow, so we can get our posters up on Thursday. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Armed with his loaded gun, he intended to kill the president that day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kok, a Dutch businessman of extreme wealth, was president of a Belgium-based banking company, SWIFT, and was responsible for organizing several international tournaments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He orders four other young soldiers to lift Lincoln back into the rocking chair and carry the president out of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

After that he looks like a midwestern bank president, with his straight neatly brushed silver hair, his sober posture, shoulders a little stooped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the state president was not brought on board, nothing would happen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the president of the United States was not worshiping in a church. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus I had to save our group from Rukia Marshall and women running for president. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He drew out his gun, extended his arm, aimed at the president's back, and pulled the trigger. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Johnson had rebuffed Hoover in the past, but now the president was willing to listen to his reports that King was controlled by powerful Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The vice president thanked them and bent down to accept the document. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What a welcome sight. You know, it’s funny how often people forget that presidents need to eat, too,” President Snow says charmingly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Robert Reyburn claimed that he and the president's other doctors followed Lister's antiseptic advice when changing dressings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Often the president ran a fever, and the room's high temperature increased his suffering. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I see the picture of our president with eyes that follow me around the room, and I am thinking he is trying to catch me doing something wrong. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the old nun would read from her favorite books, usually biographies of early American presidents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he couldn’t speak Portuguese, the former president’s gregarious nature broke through the language barrier. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

After handing the shooter over to the police officers, ticket agent Robert Parke crossed the ladies' waiting room to the fallen president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been on the New York Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies along with John Jay, president of the Continental Congress and Washington’s chief of counterintelligence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So would you run for president of the student council, DuShawn? On the Freedom Party ticket?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He became alarmed by the way the new president was giving government jobs to unqualified people at the request of party politicians. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On July 7, five days after the shooting, Corkhill announced that he wouldn't start formal legal action until he learned whether the president lived or died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That would allow the president to gain the “peace with honor” he had promised Americans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It's also a tradition of high pageantry, in which lawmakers dramatically express their approval or disapproval of the president’s ideas by either leaping to their feet in repeat standing ovations or remaining seated and sullen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I met Mrs. Daisy Bates, a petite and smartly dressed, steely-eyed woman who was the Arkansas state president of the NAACP. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth could see the door of the vestibule that led directly into the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became literary editor of the college paper, joined the sorority Pi Beta Phi, and was even elected class president. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Head Peacekeeper says the president himself has ordered part of his mansion readied to receive citizens tomorrow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As he drove home, Ellsberg knew he had just burned his bridges to the president’s inner circle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was almost a full week since anybody had laid eyes on the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Or suppose Jefferson finished a close second and therefore became vice president? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I figured it had something to do with my duties as student body president. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He declined to give details, but assured them: “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I knew things like the names of presidents and states. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How could a brand-new student, who didn’t know a soul in the place, get himself elected president? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Marvin Bell, our junior class president, who sat next to me in Miss Kellog’s class, asked me to be part of it that year. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Paul,” Mom said, “this is Mr. Costello. He’s the president of the Homeowners’ Association. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 6:30 a.m., the president's special train departed the city where he had been shot, carrying him to the sea and—everyone hoped—recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After his trip to Africa, Roosevelt decided he wanted to run for president in the 1912 election. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“If he cannot do so in good conscience, he should resign. He has no right to sabotage his president and his own government from within.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After lunch and several more phone calls, the president went to his office at 4:30 p.m., where his top military advisors joined him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was getting an MBA and had a job as a vice president at Continental Bank, and he and Janis had bought a nice condo in Hyde Park. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He no longer cared what astronomers said, what the president said, what anyone said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then, when the president announced his unexpected decision to send a new American peace delegation to France in February of 1799, Jefferson apprised Madison that this “event of events” had been forced upon Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You see, I have in my possession a very special video, which would make your election to president very difficult.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Stephen Clark, the legislator who brought the bill to ban texting to the Utah House, eventually was honored by being named an LDS mission president in Missouri. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The president greeted me and took me to his study. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corpses clogged the streets, mainly those of loyalists to the dead president and anyone who looked like a Tutsi, the ethnic group historically opposed to the Hutus. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dawson started talking about the president that was assassinated in Buffalo. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, the old president was the ex-president on an airplane to Puerto Rico. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The district president named him district leader, in charge of leading ten other kids in activities. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What sort of man would wish to murder the president of another land? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Saturday news programs discussed the interview too, dissecting my words like I’m the president or something. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

After years of men obeying his every order, he bows to an even greater authority than the president of the United States: his wife. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same process Washington had developed with his staff as commander in chief of the Continental Army, then implemented with his cabinet as president. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Kirkwood was the residence of the new vice president, Andrew Johnson, who was from Tennessee. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the president was back, we were safe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you really want to be vice president?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A week after three of the four kids in my neighborhood were buried, the president made a formal address to the nation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time ever, I see the hint of a smile on the president’s lips. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The council votes and selects Master Wingfield as our first president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At 2:15 in the morning, he became the twenty-first president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She does a scrubbing gesture in the air in front of her face—president face off, mom face on. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Benito, Steven’s older brother, had married the daughter of the Nigerian president because Nigeria was one of the richest countries in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal is so shocked at being challenged by his own seventh-grade president that he backs away from her, stepping on my foot. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Truman also delivered a sterner warning to Stalin: The president sent a fleet of B-29 bombers to bases in England, the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had agreed, if necessary, to use her contacts to convey secret messages on Nixon’s behalf to Nguyen Van Thieu, the president of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Burr had alienated Jefferson and the triumphant Republican party by his disloyalty as a vice president and had lost by a landslide in his bid to become a Federalist governor of New York. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now that he was president, these forces all but ruled his every day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’m president of the art club, so I’ve always got supplies in my locker—and stains on my gym clothes, books, etc. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Each ward has about five hundred people, and roughly ten wards make up a stake, which has a president. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

How this drunken slob was chosen as the president’s bodyguard is a great mystery, but Crook knows that the president does not involve himself in such things. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I—we—thought he was smart. You know, principled. Remember his speech when he was running for class president? You said it was the most amazing thing you’d ever heard. And it was!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That’s when he decided to take a step no American president had ever taken. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The British were upset over the seizure, and wanted their ship back, while the French were upset that the ship was being detained until the president could decide what to do. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“How does the president of the United States lose his top-secret briefcase?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This caused an uproar in the house, with verbal battles between those in the region who supported their president and those who were on the side of the executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the president’s vantage point the scene was festive and crisp, but at ground level there was water and mud and the mucid sucking that accompanied any shift in position. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Still, most saw it as their responsibility to rally around the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Damon Hininger, the president and chief operations officer of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private-prison operator in the United States, is thoroughly optimistic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To minimize the president's pain as the train rocked and bumped along the tracks, this box was raised off the floor by boards supported by more cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s just a lousy old bank president.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had often used his position as president of The Vigils to keep control of Archie, to prevent him from going overboard on assignments. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go back to imagining killing the president. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of Garfield's shooting, Drs. Townshend, Bliss, and Wales probed the president's bullet wound with unwashed fingers and unsterilized metal instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To throw in the face of the father who was so ambitious for presidents and geniuses in the family, the German nobody turned out to be a world-class chemist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As president, Roosevelt was known as the champion of the working man. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A wet cloth on the president's forehead cooled him off. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mama jumps back in: “And Jupiter is class president and the head of a number of civic groups, right, honey?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He passed on to her things he had heard on the streets, like how the American president Richard Nixon had resigned over a scandal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Booth’s hatred for Lincoln, and his deep belief in the institution of slavery, fused into a rage after the president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

To be perfectly honest, I felt it last semester when he went off to become the GSA president and I fell into the Group of Friends. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Writers there had published books and covered wars and interviewed presidents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mind you, when you’ve just heard that same kid express the belief that a president has to know every student’s name, you can never be one hundred percent sure. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt won the election, and soon after, William McKinley tapped him to run as his vice president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And with a culinary staff that had Michelin-level standards and a deep eagerness to please the president, I had to keep an eye on what got served. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November, rumbles of rebellion swept the southern states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I never visited the White House while JFK was president, for our story was still top secret in those years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter was the president of The Vigils because the president was always a football player—the muscle someone like Archie needed. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then a call came from the president of that famous music college in New York. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the president, Jefferson had a great deal to say about his journey—about the heat, rain, dust, and expense. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She got the president that she prayed for. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Do you suppose they really believe that?" the president said to his national security adviser, Robert "Bud" McFarlane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Dadoo, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, castigated the restrictions and dismissed the offer of parliamentary representation as “a spurious offer of a sham franchise.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the meeting,” Haldeman remembered, “Nixon was as angry as his foreign affairs chief. The thought that an alleged weirdo was blatantly challenging the president infuriated him.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To us he was more than just a president of a college. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took an elevator to the ground floor and emerged in a grand, wood-paneled lobby in front of the president’s office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was by far the coolest guy at C Average, totally adorable, and the mastermind behind making Cap Anderson eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Though the student body was predominantly black, the school’s president and much of the faculty were white. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the pecking order of fifth grade, I was closer to the top than the bottom because my parents were rich and my dad had met the president of the United States. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

No one would ever go hungry if he was president, no sirree, and nobody would lack for a job either. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gillian was the captain of the field hockey team, president of the Winter Ball committee. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hypnotized by the image of the fallen president, Keene imagined a scene with herself at the center of it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still reeling from the assassination of my president and the deaths of my four friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, Wayne,” one told him, “you can’t get in a fight with the president at a time when the flags are waving.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Catt had remained dedicated to traditional lobbying—privately meeting with legislators and the president to persuade them to support suffrage—whereas Paul’s campaign had been designed to humiliate the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After convening, the first order of business for the assembly would be to elect a president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decides he wants a large house in the woods—a house befitting a president—and that the lot of us hot, itchy, feverish men and boys will build it for him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The club’s president held the official title of the Ripper; its members were mainly journalists, who brought to the club’s meetings stories of murder harvested from the city’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yet before my eyes, it had turned into the eighth grade president’s coming-out party. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I met the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of Argentina, the prime ministers of Japan and Ethiopia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

President Cleveland arrived with his vice president and a retinue of cabinet officials, senators, and military leaders and their wives, children, and friends. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It meant the end of any phone calls or White House visits with the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But after Adams’s initial fling at participating in the debates, the members of the Senate decided that the vice president was not permitted to speak. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

America is the country where a skinny kid with a funny name can defeat the odds and become president. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The details we’d go into—you’d think we were planning to take over the White House and kick out the president. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as the seventeenth president of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As York learned later from General Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower’s military attache, his request had prompted the president to reflect that “the whole thing is crazy; something simply must be done about it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cap Anderson was the ultimate eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

From that day on, Uncle Arthur sent Oliver books on a monthly basis—books about superheroes and Greek mythology and pirates and space exploration and presidents. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was president of the junior class, an unusual guy. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president was alive but had symptoms of shock. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Why did y’all let me run for president?” she says, tapping too forcefully at her phone’s keyboard in little staccato stabs. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Victor walks into the building—undisclosed location, of course—with Andrea Donahue, a coworker who doesn’t stop to admire the portraits of smiling Victorians and past presidents on the yellow walls. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the president of the Italian Gymnastic Federation released a new statement apologizing for everything, and people finally moved on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I rose and approached the president of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cherrie not only respected Roosevelt as the former president of the United States, but he genuinely cared about him, like a brother. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The A July 1863 photograph of the Capitol building under construction, southeast view. people of Washington, overcome by news of the war’s end, hope to glimpse their president on this historic night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nat didn’t realize how he had been yelling and cheering until the president had passed, and the troops had fallen in behind him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knew the president was playing a dangerous game. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After hearing the details, the doctors encouraged Bell to develop the equipment for use on the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I got a ride in a bank vehicle from Nairobi all the way home to Marsabit, and the president gave me some pocket money. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When elected vice president, he was put in charge of the space program. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to cheer him up, I added, “I got good news, Papá. I was elected student body president and my friend was elected treasurer.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The president complained of severe pain in his legs, and the doctors gave him morphine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To find out more about the situation, we talked to Helen Finner, who’s been president of the Ida B. Wells tenant organization for twenty-three years and has lived in The Wells since 1968. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the guys from my army company is now the vice president of a bank. Another owns his own law firm. And another is a judge.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Guiteau attacked, editorial writers and others called for full-time protection of the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Only one person gets to be vice president, right? If there are a lot of people running, then you can’t take it too much to heart if you don’t get it.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though reporters had no idea of the president’s complicity with the Vietnamese generals, they were eager to know how the coup would affect American involvement in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For much of his fifteen years as Virginia’s president, Casteen has focused on raising money and expanding the university, the most prestigious in the state. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I greatly admired the president when he gave his televised Civil Rights speech on the night of June 11, 1963, and aligned himself solidly with the Civil Rights movement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few minutes before, the president of the United States had been a vibrant and larger-than-life presence. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, candidates for student body president had presented humorous skits before their speech. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As the Justice Policy Institute has observed, “the Clinton Administration’s ‘tough on crime’ policies resulted in the largest increases in federal and state inmate populations of any president in American history.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then, he introduced the class president, who gave a speech. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Leale considered his next move, a woman rushed through Ford’s to get to the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president of the union had made a statement on WGN about the case and the importance of supporting free speech and academic freedom. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s noon on Saturday when a telegram arrives from Stanton, summoning him to “come here immediately and find the murderer of our president.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I am quite sure I didn’t say to him that the president had doubts about Dr. Oppenheimer simply because it was not true,” he testified. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Farmer was hoping Aristide would openly challenge the junta by running for president. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I tell you Bob, the president must act—today!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mother, your president, is the warrior and the champion that each and every American deserves for four more years of growth, progress, and prosperity. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Washington opposed the scheme on several grounds, but confided his deepest reasons to Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Without his consent, they also nominated Frederick Douglass for vice president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith insists he is still our president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Kearney walked over, took out his watch, and showed it to the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Richard Nixon said, “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Stanton became nervous when Post nominated her friend, activist Abigail Bush, to serve as president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was also a victory for Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee, and his allies who had fought tooth and nail to ensure that there was no boycott. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As Lincoln spoke, one observer, Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, a free black woman, standing a few steps from the president, remarked that the lamplight made him “stand out boldly in the darkness.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president wanted an honest, firsthand report on how serious conditions actually were in South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The soldiers carried the president up the curved staircase. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen the president signed his name on a piece of paper, using about ten ink pens to get it done. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can speak through snakes and order that a president far away, after all those pebbles were carried upriver in precious canoes that did not tip over, this President Lumumba shall be killed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He designed a house for John Walker, president of the yards, and met Walker’s daughter, Mary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Now, he was the president of a small bank in South Orange, but fencing was still his passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What a lot of people don’t know is that the president sees almost everything, or is at least privy to basically any available information related to the country’s well-being. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In 1868, former Union general Ulysses Grant was elected president, succeeding Andrew Johnson. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From what he'd been told, the doctors believed the bullet was in the president's front abdomen. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then Leale lifted the president’s eyelids, studied the pupils and understood the seriousness of the wound: It was a brain injury. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the usher if he knew where the president was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The president announced he was increasing the number of American troops in Vietnam to 125,000. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though the president’s brain is dead, his body remains alive and is able to function at a survival level. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As president he envisioned what he called his Great Society—an ambitious set of programs including civil rights legislation and expanded access to quality education and health care. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The president was constantly given morphine, quinine, whiskey, and brandy, which likely irritated his already sensitive digestive system. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And for saying I hate the president, which used to be free speech but qualifies as treason now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

To get citizenship, my parents and siblings had to study a list of facts about American history, presidents, and politics, and then take a test. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was a poet president, and from time to time Manolo would say, “Ay, if Minerva had lived to see this.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the president wasn’t exactly lying, he certainly was going out of his way to downplay what he knew was a major commitment to war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Kidding! Your artwork is amazing. Why are you even in cooking club? You should be in art club. You should be president of the art club.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Not every president commissioned an official china setting, for instance, but I made sure we did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When Nixon came in, Kissinger launched into a lecture about how the president didn’t seem to grasp the danger of allowing top secret documents to be leaked to the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Normal schools do fun things. We’ve been such a bunch of sad sacks lately. It’s my job as seventh-grade president to brighten things up a little.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I could feel my mind sifting through all the various presidents that day, trying to match what I remembered from history classes with visions of the families who’d walked these actual halls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To get a better view of the president, he looks through the peephole in the wall at the back of the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Louis Austin's daughter, Vivian Edmonds, recalls that while her father and North Carolina College president Dr. James Shepard appeared to be fierce enemies, “that was for public consumption.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bliss decided on the medications and food the president received. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Jefferson had understood from the moment Washington stepped down, the American president must forever after be the head of a political party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

School board president Earl Bruck was just as blunt as Sam Lee. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the one our president lives in!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Robert Lincoln served as secretary of war and minister to Great Britain and then worked as general counsel and president of the Pullman Company. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He had also rowed for Harvard, and he wondered if he might ride along in the president’s place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How could he be president of the United States if he was only second in his class? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Nelson,” he said, “you must now take over as president of the ANC. I have been merely keeping the job warm for you.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was our president’s turn, His Excellency, the President for Life Papa Doc Duvalier, God did not get up from his throne to greet him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Garfield and his allies didn't trust Arthur, and the vice president knew it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I relived that experience, I got angry with the president of the Rotary Club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Sure, the president sent you,” I said, and laughed. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would refute it by noting that the presidents of the ANC have been Zulus, Basotho, Pedis, and Tswanas, and the executive has always been a mixture of tribal groups. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The dog had ridden in the family's last station wagon, attended my father's retirement party, and celebrated the elections of two Republican presidents. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of all his accomplishments as president, Roosevelt believed that the construction of the Panama Canal was his greatest achievement. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

With the president lying on his left side, Wales stuck his little finger into the wound as far as he could. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I slept, the news was confirmed: American voters had elected Donald Trump to succeed Barack as the next president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Following behind the president’s entourage came a scraggly parade of wagons and carriages. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some messages included an elaborate diagram of a cooling device and the offer to set it up in the president's room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I just say that I’m going to be busy enough as president of the art club next year. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I remember the president’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, came to Bed-Stuy a lot—before the riots and after. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The president’s funeral was held in Washington on Wednesday, April 19. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Tantsi was an elderly fellow, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the acting president of the Transvaal ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His run for president would be an even bigger test of that idea. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The army general was serving as interim president until the UN could organize elections. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, and people said it was Hutus, formerly from Rwanda, who had killed him, but it was feared that his intended replacement had also died in the fighting. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King, elected just that morning as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was the main speaker. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Killian, a soft-spoken South Carolinian of fifty-three who had succeeded Karl Compton as president of MIT, was a management expert rather than a trained scientist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the whitecaps cruised a Navy destroyer, keeping watch on the president’s compound. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He eventually bought out his partners, making him the majority owner, president, and CEO of his company. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was time to let the next president through the door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A cluster of kids called out to him from where they were setting up lunch near the fire pit and, ever the president’s son, he smiled and waved at them real pretty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Booth saw the red, white, and blue flags, further confirmation of the president’s visit that night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can no longer be your president but I will never leave my people or our country. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The people here can serve in the US military but can’t vote for president. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At Ford’s Theatre, the Deringer pistol, the murder weapon, was recovered from the floor of the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guiteau's brother-in-law, George Scoville, had just arrived in Washington on business when he learned that his wife's brother had shot the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To help us all understand one another, I became president of the Black History Club on campus. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could write to the president of the United States and ask him to make an exception of Alice and me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Grant had hoped to receive word of Richmond’s fall while he was with the president, too much time has passed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Someone came on the radio and announced himself as the new president of Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was what the Germans called their president now. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

An emergency election was thrown together and Paylor was voted in as president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” the president began, “we have reached the point where a decision is required: to bomb or not to bomb.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While Anthony admired Shaw, she knew that Catt had the organizational skills that were needed for the job, and she chose Catt as the next president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even in public, she’d throw a jab at our president or at the church for supporting him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul Coughlin, president of the alumni association, started placing calls to some of the university’s more prominent graduates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody watched American films and exchanged faded American magazines, but he knew details about American presidents from a hundred years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Major Henry Rathbone, seated in the box just feet away from the president, was an experienced army officer, familiar with the sounds of gunshots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was best for the president if fewer doctors visited the sickroom. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Charles Guiteau was close by, intently observing the president from the back of the room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks of Obama. The real question is whether white people are ready for a black president,” Nathan said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Never before had anyone screamed for the job of eighth grade president like Capricorn Anderson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After twenty-four hours of hard work, the men finished the track in time for the president's arrival. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

According to newspaper reports, the president was facing his injury with courage and cheerfulness. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Arguments raged over Palestine and Israel and the possibility that Eisenhower might run for president. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He retired soon after the vote, only to be nominated as a justice to the Supreme Court by the newly elected president, Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids look like popular presidents or famous movie people. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The following day, F. W. de Klerk was sworn in as acting president and affirmed his commitment to change and reform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gangly white kid with rural roots was affable and intelligent, and it wasn’t long before he was voted vice president of the Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to run for president for those first elections. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Both Haldeman and Henry seem to have an idea—which I think is mistaken—that even if we fail in Vietnam we can still survive politically,” the president wrote in his diary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The guy who answered had been the class president. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was so close to the president now that all he had to do was point the Deringer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know you’re going to be president if nobody’s voted yet?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment he could have been elected president of the gang. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A secret for all, except one: the president of the Jewish Council. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Privately, in another desperate attempt to cauterize the Watergate wound before it spread all the way to the president, Nixon had pressured his two closest aides to step down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The president stayed good-natured despite enduring the painful changes of his wound dressing, the constant monitoring of his vital signs, and the boredom of lying helpless in bed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And so, I am not ashamed to stand here today where presidents have stood and say that I love him, the same as Jack loved Jackie, the same as Lyndon loved Lady Bird. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently not the principal, the superintendent, or even the president of the United States could change school policy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The president assigned me herself. She decided the propos needed some heating up.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I am not saying I don’t love our president, because I do. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, the president dropped in for a visit. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one can feel worse than I do over the foolishness of their picketing the White House,” said Anna Howard Shaw, former president of NAWSA. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Henry was president of the Senior Debating Society, the only extracurricular activity he had time for, and Jean Louise was a fat fourteen, immersed in Victorian poetry and detective novels. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The president and his daughter,” Don Lucho says, walking over to me, peering at my homework. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are they asking the president to stop the Games?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Capitalizing on his sudden popularity, Louie ran for class president and won, borrowing the speech that Pete had used to win his class presidency at Compton. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pro-French demonstrations were held near the president’s home and escalated in intensity. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It's so barbaric, the president turning my bridal gown into my shroud, that the blow strikes home, leaving me with a dull ache inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was going down there to meet the president,” he later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Guiteau saw the president fall, he pivoted toward the B Street door, shoving the pistol into his right hip pocket. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He captured the stage and its scenery as it was at the time of the assassination, the exterior of the president’s box, the approach to the box, and the outer door leading to the vestibule. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating, he moved from Boston to Connecticut, to work for a firm near Hartford, and he had recently learned that he was being considered for the position of vice president. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If that’s what it takes,” says the president with conspiratorial good humor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Lewis, I wouldn’t have answered that one that way,” the president said levelly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But not Alma Coin, the president of 13, who just watches. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This was not the first time they had assembled to move against the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were invited to the White House by one president after another. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One month later, Ross Jones, assistant to the president of Hopkins, replied. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was also president of the school’s Library Aide Society. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She was the one running for class president. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I bet, Mack could of been president of the U.S. if he wanted,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Dimming got to American presidents in class, 1 rocked! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Perot had routinely rubbed shoulders with the most powerful men in the world—presidents, senators, heads of state, chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president of a small corporation had a bathroom with a mirror installed just off his office. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At a White House meeting, the president’s top foreign policy advisor put it bluntly: “Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She and the Congressional Union obtained ten tickets to the president’s first speech to Congress since his reelection. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Durham’s police chief told Spaulding to get "your people" off the street—which the president of the Mutual quickly did. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Those dweebs should be happy we didn’t make any of them president.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Using diagrams, Bliss explained to the jury how the bullet passed through the president's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With the president’s death near, Mary Lincoln is once again admitted. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Allow me to introduce you three to our club’s honorary president, Jack the Ripper.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But if Kissinger did not exactly relish the president’s company, he did come to admire Nixon’s intelligence, and his willingness to make bold moves. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Guests thought the president looked happier and more relaxed than they had seen him in years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bill Clinton, meanwhile, would be running against George H. W. Bush for president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was the archetypal illustration of the president without a party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It is time for Illinois to recognize the colored women as a political equal,” said the president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now, by offering Booth his hospitality, he had unknowingly made himself an accomplice in the most shocking crime in all of American history—the murder of the president of the United States! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one with the president and the missiles and stuff.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He told her that he didn’t have enough police officers to cover two parades, back-to-back, and that the president’s event took precedence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The president told us, “Good luck! I hope you win!” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a security risk now that he’s seen this safe house and the agents here. He’s safer with us, Ruby. The president wants him dead. I’m sure he’d come to see that...eventually.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The president smiled down at him from large color photos on the walls. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when George Washington was president. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within a half hour of the president's death, reporters began telegraphing the breaking news to the rest of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within hours, his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two days after the president left, and even before he reached his Virginia home, a meteorite fell out of the morning sky and thudded into Third Street. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Time and time again, military leaders told presidents what it would take to win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s a student! He’s the eighth grade president!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

To the delight of the crowd, the conductor led his orchestra in “Hail to the Chief,” the traditional musical accompaniment to the entrance of the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In awe, the people watched as their president disappeared into the boardinghouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After serving for eight years as Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon had lost a heartbreakingly close race for president to John Kennedy in 1960. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I picked up a book about the presidents that was on the kitchen table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also began working with the Clinton Global Initiative, a foundation started by the former president to bring together experts and leaders to find solutions to major world problems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the last minute, he had hedged, introducing himself as C. V. Anderson, vice president of the local Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I’m nervous, Nora, it’s a presidential election and the president gave birth to me.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

About 10:15 that April evening, while Lincoln was enjoying the play, John Wilkes Booth opened the unguarded door to the president's box. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureliano Buendía was against it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when Abraham Lincoln was president. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were stunned when the cooperative president quickly adjourned without taking up the matter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the newspaper, I read about a new person, Dwight Eisenhower, who had become president in January of 1953. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stanton thinks the president is a fool for ignoring the rumors and argues that Lincoln is risking his life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The president named a “top policy group” to make major decisions on the program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For example, the election for eighth grade president was coming up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He spoke like he was the president making a speech, except in his funny little voice. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One president’s furniture gets carried out while another’s comes in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As president of the committee, Clarkson presided over its daily meeting and helped organize its operation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His reputation—the gushing reports by his law school professors, the New York Times story about his selection as president of the Law Review—seemed to bring a flood of opportunity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If you become so excited about your new vice president job that you drive home at eighty mph, you get pulled over by the police and fined $ 100. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Barred from visiting Garfield, Baxter left, never able to return to the president's side again. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth had assassinated the president almost forty-eight hours before, but the manhunters had no solid leads. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The historian in question was U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, onetime scholar and president of Princeton University. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four hours ago, he was still thinking of ways to kidnap the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

However, those firsts would pale in comparison with Johnson's new assignment: The president wanted a plane that could fly high enough to avoid Soviet radar, and far enough to cross the Soviet Union without refueling. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father was the president of predictability, probably something he learned when he was in the army. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"First place, we didn't have any president----" Gatsby's foot beat a short, restless tattoo and Tom eyed him suddenly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s been distressing to see how the behavior and the political agenda of the current president have caused many Americans to doubt themselves and to doubt and fear one another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Next to Gross is Bill Hallman, another friend and the president of Pennsylvania’s Educational Theatre Association. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Secretary of War Stanton arrives, makes the room next to Lincoln’s his headquarters, and takes charge, acting as interim president of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although still serving as vice president under Jefferson, Burr realized that the Republicans intended to drop him from the ticket when Jefferson ran for his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Bliss announced that the president wanted to reduce the number of doctors around him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then to get out, in public, at the president’s house? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tell them how you felt about the coup, the president thrown out before the year was over, the rebels up in the mountains, the civil war, the landing of the marines. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided the public had a right to know what was happening with their president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he’s angry when he returns from his phone call with the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The president replied that he wanted to be moved to the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sachs was ushered into the Oval Office, where the president was seated behind his desk. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social life, whether it was the crowning of a May queen, the eulogy to a dead president, or an all-night dance, could be held nowhere else. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the president came in, he was with his daughter, Asifa. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door, the boys announced who they were, mentioned that they had met John Roosevelt the previous year, and asked if the president was in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Upon being informed that the bomb would be much larger than any ever built, the president barked: “Absolutely not! They are already too big!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

First kiss would happen next to my birthday twin and forever president, Barack Obama. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Have you abandoned your project to form a political party or nominate a candidate for president by divine right? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana, had chosen to keep his homeland out of the election, the tide of events soon altered the situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell that to the president and see how far you get. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the lesson,” Ellsberg answered, “is that the people of this country can’t afford to let the president run the country by himself.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I was glad he was running for president. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In rapid succession he had been defeated for homeroom president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, sergeant at arms, homeroom representative to the Student Council, and homeroom alternate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the decks of ships and the shores of Pacific islands, Marines, sailors, and soldiers knelt and wept together in prayer services for our fallen president. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever told Booth about the president’s plan to attend the play that night had unknowingly activated in his mind an imaginary clock that began ticking down, minute by minute. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addie: Well, but will you still run for president on our ticket? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nor can all that transpires in the wider culture—from Stonewall to Will & Grace to Brokeback Mountain to Glee to a U.S. president declaring his support for legalized gay marriage—change every mind in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, presidential security was very weak in that era, even during wartime; almost anyone could walk into the Executive Mansion without being searched and request a brief meeting with the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

McNaughton gestured for quiet; he wanted to hear the rest of the president’s statement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That woman is definitely the president of something— look at those killer shoes. She can be in charge.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In Bliss’s view, the two were disqualified from treating the president because they were homeopaths. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a humiliating defeat for the young and untested US president. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because he pushed back his laptop on the table and said, “Did you want to be vice president very badly, Albie?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the president needs now is for Grant to finish the rest of the job, and then he can get to the work of reunification that will be known to history as Reconstruction. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have much time to think about the president. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, the president had been telling the public how well things were going in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the meeting, Woodhull established the Equal Rights Party, which then nominated her as its candidate for president of the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Donnelly then called on the president of the Student Council, a tall guy in a blazer, to come up and read a statement about the laurel oak tree. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But didn’t we put MoMo in power in the first place when the ROC elected a socialist president?” one of the black shirts asked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lucretia and others read these messages to the president to lift his spirits. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Booth arrived at the theater, the president’s messenger had come and gone. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt certain if I memorized that book I could marry the Prince of Wales—or at least a railroad president.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The president of the club gave us a speaker’s certificate and proclaimed us the “Pride of the Hollows.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents—even the most despicable—get special treatment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Does nobody see how absurd it is to ask people if they are ready for a black president? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In 1876, an Ohio Republican named Rutherford Hayes became president after a close election that had to be settled in the House of Representatives. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They want to bide their time until one day we are magically released and the president isn’t some raging fascist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The White House, one learns, operates with the express purpose of optimizing the well-being, efficiency, and overall power of one person—and that’s the president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The eighth graders had picked this computer genius, Luke Simard, and got him elected president just so they could make fun of him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Now no one could follow him into the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In accordance with the ANC constitution, as provisional president of the Transvaal, I became one of the four deputy presidents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, Lee pauses to write a letter to Confed- \\ erate president Jefferson Davis, saying that his army is in retreat and can no longer defend Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Like the president? The father of our country?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Corkhill called witnesses to testify about Guiteau's actions before the shooting, his attack at the train station, his arrest, and the president's medical condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he could do something for the president: He could protect and defend the country. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students of London University elected me president of their Students’ Union, in absentia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Wood,” she asked, “can we write to the utilities president and ask him to fix the poles?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Stranded in the middle of the muddy street with no place to go, the president of the United States was dying in the presence of a mob of hundreds, perhaps a thousand, witnesses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How would you feel if Daddy ran for president?” he'd asked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president came down and spoke to us. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dirty, cement floor, wires and pipes, and terrible lighting, but at least I couldn’t see the cobwebs or ghosts who’d probably been hanging around since Lincoln was president. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson said, “If that comedian lived in this country or this country or this country, and if he had told that joke about the president last night, today he would probably be in jail.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was fifty years old when his second term as president ended. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The same first name as a former president.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Above on the wall was a framed picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who’d beaten out Hoover as president of the United States. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, before we set a date, we better clear it with Katniss’s mother,” says the president. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, the resolution was designed to grant the president the power to order further attacks in Vietnam without asking Congress for a formal declaration of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Soon, they knew, following the president’s lead into space might mean choosing between the place that had given them a community and the passion for the work that gave their life meaning. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s a load off my mind. When I found out they made him eighth grade president—well, Sophie filled me in on what that might mean.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But when the school’s president was later ousted for incompetence, the trustees appointed Garfield to the position. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was in his office near the station when someone dashed in to alert him about the attack on the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Noticing Carter’s frown, Archie decided to throw him a bone—Carter still ran the meetings and as Vigils president he could be a dangerous adversary. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning with Andrew Jackson in 1829, seventeen presidents of the United States have been of Ulster Scots lineage, including Ronald Reagan, the Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The secretive caller informed Morse that whatever attacks had taken place on the American destroyers had hardly been, as the president claimed, “unprovoked.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not sure where to go, they decided they’d pay a visit to the president of the United States, whom they understood to live somewhere upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the adventure-seeking former president never regretted his trip down the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Association opposed what they considered to be Alice Paul’s daily harassment of the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Seeing black people graduate from Harvard and Yale and become CEOs or corporate lawyers—not to mention president of the United States—causes us all to marvel at what a long way we have come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I told the president that the current conflict was draining South Africa’s lifeblood and talks were the only solution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after lunch, we drove down to Crown Hill Cemetery, the last and final resting place of three vice presidents, one president, and Augustus Waters. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the end, as he was leaving, the president recited a poem he’d composed on the ride up from the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind kept turning over the reality that Barack’s term as president was almost finished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I told him, “I remember my father telling me that people felt really bad about the president being killed.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Lloyd, “I am pretty certain that we have assassinated the president and Secretary Seward.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended by saying that we’d already had a woman president during World War II. That Eleanor Roosevelt ran the country when her husband, the president, was sick. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After negotiations for better pay and working conditions broke down, the Marx & Haas Clothing Company locked out one thousand workers, including United Garment Workers of America Ladies’ Local 67, of which Fannie Sellins was president. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

To avoid the usual loud noises and whistles of approaching trains, officials notified trains coming south on adjacent tracks to stop as the president neared. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he started to talk, the former president was his usual exuberant self, gesturing wildly with his hands. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Who are you, telling us to be at ease? We wanna see the police, the mayor, the president—somebody!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After that, she moved back and forth from the adjacent car where Mollie and the rest of the president's friends, attendants, and aides sat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Working quickly, he straddles Lincoln’s chest and begins resuscitating the president, hoping to improve the flow of oxygen to his brain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I'm a pretty, slightly chubby White House intern who's had a brief affair with the president of the United States. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At Senate hearings, John Dean testified that he had talked with the president more than thirty times about details of the cover-up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But as the conversation went on, I forgot I was talking to the president. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh please. Mom told me you were class president of Forrestville High.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

On January 31, 1985, in a debate in Parliament, the state president publicly offered me my freedom if I “unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Roosevelt, in her day the most outspoken of presidents’ wives, had worked tirelessly since coming to Washington to promote racial equality. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure, he’s weird, but he’s the best eighth grade president we’ve ever had.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He took the list to the university president, and the situation was diffused. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something called the Economic Development Commission was responsible for getting the plant to Denver, Colorado. Parker was the president of the board.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“At the auction nobody wanted the quilt, because it got wet and the president’s signature was all smudged, right?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone will get a chance to vote for a president. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Its president said that the group was determined “to fulfill to the highest degree our obligation to the public.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was Republican president Ronald Reagan who granted amnesty to nearly three million undocumented immigrants in 1986. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If he had only wounded Lincoln, then the president, even at fifty-six years old, would have been a worthy opponent. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon my cousin Scootchie took me to meet his friend Suggs Miller, who is president of the Local School Council at Doolittle West. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No protest group had ever challenged an American president so defiantly. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The school selected me as a safety patrol, and Mrs. Trojello, my teacher in the gifted program, encouraged me to run for Student Council president. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Lady Bird Johnson knew the stress was reaching new heights when the president began pacing the White House halls at night. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On August 20, two weeks after the president signed the act, Gager Lee, whose father had been sold in a slave market, registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because no coaches were running north of Baltimore, the president and his secretary of state were forced to hire—at their own expense, Jefferson grumped—a carriage to take them to Germantown. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I remember watching the president of the university stand and weep. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

During Easter break I did not think about running for student body president. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby: But how do you know he’d want, to run for president? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The president removes an envelope clearly marked with a 75. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The board duly passed it on to Robert G. Sproul, who had been inaugurated as the university’s president only three months earlier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mom is now the head of the Architectural Committee, a block captain for the Neighborhood Watch patrol, and the person most likely to succeed Mr. Costello as president of the Homeowners’ Association. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And if that comedian lived in this country and told that joke last night about the president, today he would probably be dead.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The war had cost Johnson a chance of another term as president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t need it when I was in Congress, and I didn’t need it to become president the first time, and I don’t need it now!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After he disposed of the president, they would be historical treasures. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sent her to the Old Capitol Prison, where she would join the many other suspects and witnesses arrested after the president’s murder. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I warned him that if he wanted to halt the discussion he must get direct orders from the state president himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 10, 1608, Captain John Smith takes the oath of office and becomes our new president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And yet what the Pentagon Papers showed was that each president made decisions to escalate American involvement in Vietnam knowing that what he was doing had little chance of success. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Reyburn later revealed that Bliss insisted on upbeat medical bulletins—even if they misrepresented the president's health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each of the presidents, dictators, and generals had brought his own protectors, and of course the Alacrans had hired a small army for the party. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went about our regular business, but the question of whether Barack would run for president unsettled the air around us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is not the roomy stage before the Training Center but the narrow terrace in front of the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe even the president himself, and Mrs. Washington for tea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were to sit at a large T-shaped table, with Lyman Gage, president of the exposition, at the center of the topmost table, Hunt on his right, Olmsted on his left. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One president calmly excused himself, entered his private office, and shot himself through the head. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What about you, you going to end up being the first woman president? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Stone to come swear him in as president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma was as mad and sad as anyone when they killed the president. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally speaking, Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the long quiet that followed, as we passed around the wine and slowly became drunker, I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In March 2012, President Obama nominated him to be president of the World Bank, a post to which he won election three months later. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We consider George Washington a statesman because he spent tax money on widely admired programs and did not enrich himself as president. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as if the president was mortally wounded. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And James Abram Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States, a sprawling country of 50 million people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Do I need to alert the president and ask him to authorize a preemptive military strike?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The president's press secretary and the roomful of reporters sitting unharmed could confirm that there had been no explosions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Neither of the Palmers was injured nor was the man living across the street, who happened to be future president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I propose the name Victoria C. Woodhull to be nominated president of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the south had a Democrat president and they was the ones started the Civil War. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “The subject is ‘What if a woman ran for president?’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Mama! We learned this in elementary school. The president signs bills into laws! The president!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You mean—?” I didn’t get a chance to finish the thought, because he was already flagging down a very dazed eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The undertaker was forced to adjust the clothes to fit because the president had lost so much weight since the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1940, at the end of a busy school day, Katherine was surprised to find Dr. Davis, the president of her alma mater, waiting outside her classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Every president since had secretly recorded some of his White House conversations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once Harry Hawk was alone onstage, Booth opened the door and stepped into the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s also the founder and president of the Delaware Valley Raptor Sanctuary. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No drug or medicine in any form was administered to the president,” he will later note. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Someone from Barack’s administration might have said that the optics there were bad—that what the public saw didn’t reflect the president’s reality or ideals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lyman Gage, still president of the exposition, was first to move. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some climbed to the stage, asking the occupants of the president’s box what had happened. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they hadn't continually searched for the bullet with germ-laden fingers and probes, the president probably would have survived. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Time and time again, presidents escalated—but stopped short of giving the generals what they said they needed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The tools in NHS wanted her to run the show, but you weren’t allowed to be the leader of more than two things, and she was already tennis captain and junior class president. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Besides, who would wanna be seen with two dudes named after a couple of dead presidents anyway? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demands of the war had been so great that the president spent less and less time with Mary. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only this time they don’t think it can be saved. I was at a meeting last night and Helen Shaunessy, our president, presented this EPA report. And today...at work, I don’t know what happened.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The president was sitting there with the minister of education. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president received antibiotics to fight possible infection and transfusions to replace his significant blood loss. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lloyd Jacobs, the president of a splinter Klan organization, in front of Durham’s City Hall at a march for open housing, 1967. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Castro had to be president of some company or other, a young general in a Wall Street suit, conservative haircut, ramrod posture. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“There he is, the next president of the United States!” said the emcee of the rally. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't seen the president since the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Running through the glass doors of Petersen’s, I forget that I was going to be cool about telling my mom that I’m class president. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Having his close friend Chester Arthur as vice president wasn't enough for Conkling. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Letters to Wilson supporting the suffragists already far outnumbered those supporting the president’s position. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I think about Al Campanis, the Dodgers vice president, who wanted him to get married. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The president sends everyone off to get to work, so Gale wheels me back to the hospital. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Leale, with help from the other two physicians, buttons the president’s coat. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I’m released from the hospital and given a room in the president’s mansion to share with my mother. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After closely following his day-to-day progress for nearly two months, people viewed him differently than they had previous presidents. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president began complaining of occasional chest pain. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I had thought the president sincerely wanted to change his policies and improve relations," he complained, adding, "Now, thanks to the U-2, the honeymoon was over." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted university presidents to encourage students to work to improve the condition of disadvantaged Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would slip into Ford’s Theatre and assassinate the president during the play. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, I always thought our president was like God, watching over everything I did. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third car held twenty soldiers to lift the president and his mattress in Elberon, and the fourth was for baggage. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president would receive better care at the White House than in a crowded hospital, which was generally for people with no one to nurse them at home. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other man, who had introduced himself as Rich Fowler, the vice president and legal counsel, but who Tuttle had introduced as his assistant, had been mostly quiet, leaning against the window behind his boss. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the match’s venue was moved to Belgrade, Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Serbia, met Bobby and Spassky and asked to be photographed with the two. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rondon explained that Roosevelt was not the president of the United States now, but he had been. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln lays her head on the president’s chest as Major Rathbone uses his one good arm to yank away the music stand blocking the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The center had a brand-new president whom everyone was raving about, and one of his top priorities was improving community outreach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Cherrie and the others especially enjoyed Roosevelt’s ability to tell a good story, keeping everyone entertained with tales of his adventures in the Wild West, in Africa, and as president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In Vietnam, he interviewed all kinds of people: soldiers, rice farmers, orphans, generals, and even the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before I became less concerned with making sure Malia and Sasha looked like the daughters of a future president than making sure they looked like they at least had a mother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Eleven hundred screaming, cheering kids went suddenly silent at the sight of the eighth grade president stretched out, dazed, on the grass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In a delicately worded letter, Randolph told Washington that no, the president could not move Congress, even in an emergency. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Having made a special case of Ernest Lawrence in one of his first official acts as Berkeley’s president, Sproul was not about to skimp on his new star’s research budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This visit, the first by an American president, led to a thaw in the years of icy hostility between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five beds arrived from different parts of the country so that the president would rest comfortably. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You act like Maleeka is working for the president of the United States. Man.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State Blaine sent Arthur telegrams every few hours with updates on the president's health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You wanted me to run for president because I’m black. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Without the politicians, the president...Ben, this is an opportunity to start over. A consensus.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, in a booming voice, Jillson announced, “And now, everyone, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you the esteemed founder, president, and principal of our beloved Institute: Mr. Ledroptha Curtain!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tune in at 9:00 p.m. for the president’s National Security Address, to be broadcast on all channels. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She protested, arguing that “feebleness unfitted her,” but she reluctantly agreed to serve with support from her vice president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Were Nixon and Kissinger really unwilling to learn from the failure of four presidents before them? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Soon every student found a message slid under his door, containing an appeal from Harvard’s president, Abbott Lowell, for men to volunteer to help ease the crisis brought about by the police strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the end, it boiled down to this: I said yes because I believed that Barack could be a great president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He immediately assured me that as long as he was president of this university and unless I went crazy, he would back me and our work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If the president could make his way to Jackson Square for a press conference, her husband, if alive, could find a phone and call out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His performance was a severe blow to the organization and we all immediately realized that Dr. Moroka’s days as ANC president were numbered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Americans assumed that presidents in a democracy weren't at risk of assassination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been a carpenter, janitor, teacher, preacher, college president, lawyer, state senator, and general. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I went to Austin Business College with Wayne B. Wheeler. He was class president." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

While it did not incapacitate the president, it did weaken him and, according to his cabinet, made him even more irascible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's every single day for the last twenty years, from my first internship out of college all the way up through the ranks to vice president of sales. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people turned to friends, spouses, and strangers to ask: “Has the president been shot?” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

School had always been easy for Melanie; and even though she wasn’t the kind who got elected class president, she’d always had plenty of friends. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worshippers at Sunday services prayed for the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All morning long, students I hardly know are asking me to run for class president, begging me to join their clubs, their sports teams, to sit with them at lunch. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander Hamilton felt the president could indeed move Congress. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She had been welcomed at the White House, where she sang for the president and first lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She would also be very surprised to see that a commoner is our president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As class president, it was Maria’s job to make sure everyone had good behavior or Mrs. Maxy would take minutes off our recess time. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, everyone was keen to know whether he would make a run for president in 2008. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The president’s daughter looks about thirty years old, around Susana’s age, and is an expert on mingling and posing graciously for pictures. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has boasted black mayors, black police chiefs, black legislators, and is home to the nation’s first black president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His vice president, Gerald Ford, was sworn in as president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson said, “I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg and other staff members were gathered with John McNaughton in his office, reading the latest cables and waiting for the president’s announcement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt, who was only forty-two years old, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the mess hall turned to the president. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the president of the United States, there would be no war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When they got to the part mentioning our president, Metias stood and saluted in the direction of the capital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s being watched. The High Command guys—they’re all getting heat from the War Department and the president.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Wearing a dark uniform and a full-length rain cape, he stood for a few moments gripping the hand of FISA’s Italian Swiss president, Rico Fioroni, as the two smiled and carried on an animated conversation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the Garfields wanted them open because they thought fresh air would aid the president's healing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president has ambitious plans for his second term in office. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a subdued voice, Kissinger said that history would one day rank Nixon among the great presidents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was on a tear, promising the crowd if he got to be president, the government was going to come in and set everything right, even run things if it had to. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the debate begins about who should be our new president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As the photographer set up his equipment again, this time across the room, I put a hand on the president’s back, guiding him around the couches, to the great dark wood desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"You can be president, you were born here," the grandfather crooned. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One witness after another swore it was Booth, John Wilkes Booth, who had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marvin Bell, junior class president, will preside over the scandals as master of ceremonies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The man assumed the president wanted to hear good news, so that’s what he reported. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I know. I remember that episode where you three had to sneak into the White House to save the president and he was, you know, in the bathroom.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s not easy to be fully relaxed,” Ellsberg told a journalist, “while watching the president make that kind of attack on you.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1867, Andrew Johnson, the nation’s first post-Civil War president and a former slaveholder, advocated a new practice that quickly replaced slavery as a main source of agricultural labor in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the president’s powerful speech on Civil Rights, I felt a sense of great relief and sudden hope. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was John Roosevelt, the president’s youngest son. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King watched the president’s speech in Selma with colleagues and friends. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will be the first man to ever kill a president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But football games were not won with noble role models and the cotton candy that college presidents liked to spin out for the media. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ushered them into the president’s library and sat them down and began talking rapidly about rowing and about coaches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The girls her age could speak and write English and they knew the names of presidents, astronauts, and radio and movie personalities, who lived below the top of the world. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A former president of the Ninety-Nines, Inc., International Organization of Women Pilots, she tracked everyone down through their memberships in the Ninety-Nines. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was quarterback on the Muscatine high school football team, a starting guard in basketball, the president of his class and its valedictorian. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If America elected its first black president, it would say something not just about Barack but also about the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The best thing about being eighth grade president was definitely the checks Mr. Kasigi had given me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I had a flashback to the assembly two months ago, when Kasigi had first proclaimed him president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

So the president called the head of the bank and introduced me, and the next day I went down to Nairobi from Nakuru to meet him. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s time to move on,” puts in Caroline, the seventh-grade president. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the week, he had sent the president a message, asking him to come to City Point to witness the capture of Petersburg. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But if you perform so well that a rival company comes calling, you become a vice president and no longer have to work for your father. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s worshipful eyes never left the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Vaughan and Burt, who was the president of a bank in Pawhuska, were considered close friends, and Vaughan had long acted as one of Burt’s attorneys. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As he entered the building, someone yelled that the president had been shot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Not to talk of calling the man a ‘president.’” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would. I would like tea,” says the president. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to sit at the edge of my room, y’all. Ear pressed to the door. I told myself you were talking to the president.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nobody even knows who the vice president is. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that Log-a-Log is a wise elder, but I am president of our union, comrades. The mouse hasn’t told us where he is going.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Have results of bombing actions been as fruitful and productive as we anticipated?” asked the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With a crowd gathering and the president vomiting, Dr. Smith Townshend called for help in carrying Garfield to a more private area. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They needed to convey the right message to the president and the passersby, and to people seeing the photographs in the newspapers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Two congressmen and future presidents, James Madison and James Monroe, would arrive after him and be compelled to sleep on wooden benches in the tavern’s public room! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I walked into the student government meeting just as the president was calling it to order. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years before, the White House requested—and broadcasters agreed—that the president should not be imitated on the radio because it confused listeners. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He refused to return to the hotel, and I carried him on my back up the stairs to the president’s office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nervously glanced at Mrs. Maxy and luckily she was busy stapling all the presidents’ heads on a bulletin board. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dean of the university spoke, as did the president of the chamber of commerce. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our homeroom shuffles down to the multipurpose room, and as soon as I get there, I realize why Matt wasn’t in homeroom: because he’s running for seventh grade class president. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

These passages had in fact been uttered by the American presidents Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout Adams’s presidency, she claimed, Jefferson had used his position as vice president to undermine the policies of the very man he had been elected to support. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Johnson gently pushed McNamara out of the Pentagon, giving him the prestigious but less controversial job of president of the World Bank. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But once a decision has been made, he has an equal obligation to carry it out with all his energy and wisdom,” the president wrote in his memoir. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curly wondered if Mother Paula’s vice- president for corporate relations had hung up on him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton elbowed Chapter Eleven, kidding, “We’ll start you off as vice president in charge of salad bars.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t interested in being anyone’s tour guide, not even the former president of the United States. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The process had begun in 1927 with the appointment of a new president of the Research Corporation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Being junior class vice president would help, but he had no chance at senior class president. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Messengers fanned out in all directions shouting about the Seward assassination just as the news spread from Ford’s of the president’s assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For weeks it had been open season on the eighth grade president, but he hung in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

To put down the Confederate rebellion, the president required votes in Congress from men who would back the needs of the military. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In January 1960, the newspapers ran small articles about the arrival in Charleston of a senator from Massachusetts who was running for president of the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The vice president of Congo spoke, as did the president of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That’s all the rally was, anyhow, showing off: Hey, look, I’m a third child and I can go to the president’s house and nobody will hurt me. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are employees of multinational industry: pharmaceutical salespeople, electronic engineers, information technology managers, accountants, data analysts, plant managers, regional vice presidents, biotechnologists, bankers, manufacturers’ representatives, and franchise chain managers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What will the lady have?” the president asked. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In a secret memo, he urged the president to deny Westmoreland's request. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His personal impressions of the new American president may well have led the Soviet leader into making a bold and risky move with the Soviets' newest ally, Fidel Castro. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally deciding the change might do him good, the medical team and the president's aides investigated how they could grant his wish. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Opening his eyes, the president said, “Oh my! Swaim, what a pain I have right here.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine. We never see it on television, but the president always visits the victors before the tour to wish them luck,” I say brightly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

John Adams spent the summer before he became president reading Cicero’s essays. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One was delivered by Harold Hanson and the other by the author Alan Paton, who was also national president of the Liberal Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have. And my eyes have been opened. Now I have a vision, and I’m going to share it with our new president. Do you know what it is?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We got the presidents of the sorority as our “big sisters,” which meant that throughout pledging, we escaped a lot of the hazing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Also, speaking the first morning were two district presidents, and their wives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With men of the quality of Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse, and Rufus Clement, president of Atlanta University—to mention only two who are world-renowned—the intellectual climate is of high quality. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The revolution is when Shirley Chisholm ran for president and the rest of the world tried to imagine a Black woman in the White House. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He believed the president was moving too slowly to find a negotiated settlement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There he was, Mohammed with the vice president of Lebanon. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The local papers would have a field day reporting that while I was running a principals’ conference in Las Vegas, my trusted eighth grade president was emptying my treasury. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After the air around the buckets cooled and sank, it would lower the temperature around the president's bed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who was the president the man yelled about? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some people in the township had been out of work entirely, including Earl Bruck, the school board president. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the burial he drew up and personally submitted to the president of the republic a violent telegram, which the telegrapher refused to send. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing and no one— not even the president of the United States—would thwart * James Hood left the university after only two months, wanting to avoid a breakdown. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Quick action had saved the president from immediate death, on the floor of Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There been plenty of presidents and even enough wars in my time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even Jefferson, who was the first president to break with that tradition, felt obliged to do so surreptitiously, then issue blanket denials when confronted by Abigail. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

McNamara wanted to use the details to help convince the president to begin a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Please, I’m the president of Overthinkers Anonymous. I’m their patron saint.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So far, the only blemish on Parker’s record while serving the president is a penchant for tardiness, as Crook knows all too well. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How about going to the White House to meet the president?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“So the president’s coming to town. He must have heard we have the prettiest girls in the state.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president was the last straw for the South because he opposed allowing slavery in these western areas. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if they’d forgotten that it was a Republican president who’d governed us into this mess in the first place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ladybird Hope sat behind a replica of the president’s desk in a fake oval office. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We received a ticket for a special greeting room, where we would meet the president and First Lady before the dinner. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the Washington parade and Wilson’s inauguration, Paul arranged a meeting with the new president. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The president told a photographer to back off and wait for his wife and me to finish talking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were telegrams from all around the world, from presidents and prime ministers, but I remember one in particular from a white Cape Town housewife that amused me greatly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In so doing, Clinton—more than any other president—created the current racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After Trujillo became the head of the army, he got to talking to some people who didn’t like the old president. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides serving as president, he also taught Greek, Latin, mathematics, geology, English literature, history, grammar, and philosophy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Toot, a stout, gray-haired woman who’d worked her way up to becoming the vice president of a local bank, made us tuna salad sandwiches for lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bliss gave the president the news, warning him that it would be a painful procedure. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought about trying for secretary, but why should I limit myself when I have a shot at president?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We went to Rockefeller Center for the Spirit of Anne Frank Award ceremony, we toured Scholastic, Inc. We met the CEO, vice president, and some of the editors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The kids asked me questions, some about vegetables and the tasks at hand, but also things like “Where’s the president?” and “How come he’s not helping?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was photographed and then the surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Barnes, who had tended to Lincoln in the president’s final hours, performed an autopsy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Near the court stands a statue of Paul Kruger, the president of the Republic of the Transvaal who fought against British imperialism in the nineteenth century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caltech president Robert Millikan suppressed his institution’s feelings of rivalry with Berkeley to compliment Lawrence on his “altogether extraordinary” discoveries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Four,” Annabeth said, “but-—” “Correct! Which U.S. president signed the Emancipation Proclamation?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Selma, the president continued, marked a turning point in American race relations and American history. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then introduced the student body president, who welcomed us and told us that our school mascot was a saint. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In addition, she was too young to run; the US Constitution requires that the president be at least thirty-five years old, and she would still have been thirty-four on Inauguration Day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the first Democratic primary in New Hampshire, the president barely squeaked past Eugene McCarthy, an antiwar senator who had not been expected to pose a serious challenge. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To Kaltenbrunner the fact that the great Bobby Fischer was gracing his home—for whatever reason—was equivalent to having the president of a country stop in to pay a visit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the president met with aides to prepare for the week ahead. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Lyndon Johnson,” he told his advisors, “is not going down as the president who lost Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The president was annoyed, but understood the reality. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The shooter stood less than a yard behind the president, firing again. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He massaged the president’s heart by pressing hard under the ribs. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February, Botha unexpectedly resigned as head of the National Party, but kept his position as state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Confederate president had set aside more than $1 million in gold to pay for acts of espionage and intrigue against the Union and kept a portion of the money in Canada. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

First, Stanton was defeated in her reelection bid for president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was the responsibility of the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Because his Ohio Senate duties weren't full-time, he continued as president and teacher at the Eclectic Institute, too. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president’s advisers in my opinion could be overly fretful about appearances. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The class president stood and gave his speech. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Not so much book smart, even though he did know all forty-eight states and capitals and all the presidents from Washington to Roosevelt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though Roosevelt was also a colonel and a former president, he was an American guest of the Brazilian government and could not risk going against his host country’s laws. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Thousands upon thousands are on their way to hear the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A courier hands the president a telegram informing him that Richmond has fallen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

If she squinted, she could almost pretend they were secret service and she was the president. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was hard for teachers not to feel depressed by the lack of rudimentary knowledge, like in the history class in which students were asked to name the president after John F. Kennedy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I congratulated Mr. de Klerk on becoming president and expressed the hope that we would be able to work together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, if he missed, or failed to kill the president, he would turn to his backup weapon, a Rio Grande camp knife, a handsome and extremely sharp type of bowie knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unprecedented on his part—he had always been eager to have the president’s ear. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The vice president was advised to take the oath of office immediately and come to Elberon the next morning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His principal quarry was Karl Compton, the president of MIT and Arthur Compton’s brother, who just had been named a trustee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next day, April 30, word spread through the barge: the president of South Vietnam had ordered his troops to lay down their arms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

While the solemn group waited, the president's gasps of breath continued for several more minutes until...silence. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And in his weakened condition, the former president believed he was a burden to the expedition. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But if Kennedy, a white man—the president of the United States—says that things need to change, surely white people will listen to him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the narrow hallway behind the stage where a back door opened to the alley and he knew how the president’s box hung directly above the stage. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What an excellent chance I had, if I wished, to kill the president on Inauguration Day! I was on the stand, as close to him nearly as I am to you.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that he is president, he keeps that very same coconut on his Oval Office desk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The news of the president's late-July relapse shocked and disappointed everyone, including his doctors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And another friend of my father’s, a university president who’d been outspoken against the Taliban, was killed by two gunmen who burst into his office. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What are the chances he would have gone to Harvard Law School, much less become president of the United States, if that had happened? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As the president strolled from the White House grounds, one man took notice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was going to say that the presidents on Mount Rushmore would survive when she stopped me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was open season on the eighth grade president, especially on the school bus, where there were no teachers, and the only rule is anything goes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Now, she’s the president, and he’s sold his companies to spend his time fulfilling First Gentleman duties. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A voice cried out from the president’s box, “Stop that man!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When confronted with the charge that, despite his position as vice president, he had paid Callender to write diatribes against the president, Jefferson claimed to know nothing about it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He then covers the president with a blanket as Dr. Taft begins the process of removing the bullet from Lincoln’s head. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Franklin Pierce. The only president from New Hampshire.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She told us the correct name of the president. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Being president of the art club doesn’t carry a lot of cred, so when I’ve got some inside scoop, I’m going to wake the town and tell the people. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The president decided to mount a “Success Offensive.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The public was eager for as much news as possible and reacted to it as if the president was a family member. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You can’t imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example,” which was true. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

James Garfield served just two hundred days as president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Mom! They voted me class president. The kids in my class! Not the teacher. The kids did!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The president declared détente—the attempt to improve relations between America and Russia—a failure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But not everybody was John Carter, president of The Vigils, All-Star Guard on the football team, and president of the Boxing Club. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Normal schools do. Everybody always waits for the eighth-grade president to do everything. But our eighth graders are lazy. No offense.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The man who did was Mr. Sheffield, president of the mill. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The president’s favorite chair is in the exact center of the room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those who survived were returning to a nation different from the one they had departed, to make, in the words of their president, the world “safe for democracy.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After Marian’s recital, the first lady took Anna Anderson by the hand and led her over to meet the president. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She worked for the Division of Applied Mathematics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and was recommended for the cosmonaut program by its president, Mstislav Keldysh. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They gather around Lincoln, so alarming the men who rowed him ashore that they form a protective ring around the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, something that surprised even the people who had surrounded the palace, Trujillo announced he was the president. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They elected me class president my very first year there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulated that Adams intended to step down from office in order to permit Jefferson, still his vice president, to succeed him, in an effort to forestall a constitutional crisis. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The dinner that followed was lively and cordial: Bobby showed Ilyumzhinov how Fischer Random was played, and he plied the president with questions about Russian politics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s feet and legs were already getting cold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We've had other entries in other years that described businesses," said Jack Petrocini, president of the local chapter of the Rotary Club. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Yes, the president and Mrs. Lincoln would attend this evening’s performance of the popular if silly comedy Our American Cousin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked at the hairball on the payload, I didn’t see the eighth grade president; I saw the Super Bowl champions. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Question of the Day was: Which president is on the two-dollar bill? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To her personally, her father was a more powerful man, because the president had not taken care of her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, looking back on it, Roosevelt believed that he never would have become president of the United States if it hadn’t been for his experiences in the Dakota Territory. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When the president of the United States reached the gates of Heaven, God got up to greet him as well. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Across the city, opinions ranged from It has nothing to do with how he runs the country to All presidents have affairs to the more succinct Who cares? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Construction of a new tower there had long ago been okayed, the union president explained, but no funds were available to build it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memorandum reiterated most of the points I had made in our secret committee meetings, but I wanted to make sure the state president heard them directly from me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her notebook back to the page on the vice president and began to type. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No,” Ben disagreed silently, “no homeroom president has ever had a single good quality.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hunt and Liddy were part of a secret team working directly for the president of the United States. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He managed to get into the president's office, where Garfield was in conversation with several men. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The news spread like wildfire that the eighth grade president was down again. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Not only were men welcome at the American, the group elected a man, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, to be its first president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have the feeling the president thought the emergency channel was impenetrable, and someone will end up dead tonight because it was breached. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Still, I was glad that Bobby Kennedy was running for president. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gazing inside, he gauged the best aim so that he would hit the back of the president's head without injuring anyone else. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But that had been back in the days when we’d made him president as a joke and sent him wandering after fake press conferences and stole his shoes while he was meditating. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Several news publications looked into the predictions of powerful yet clean nuclear weapons made by Lawrence, Teller, and the president and determined they were talking fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Keene lifts the president’s head into her lap and calmly strokes his face. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the funeral was over, the president’s body would be placed aboard a special train that could carry him home to Springfield. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents would add, “We live in a country where a president is called Jimmy. Really, there was nothing we could do.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is remembered, not for her talent as an accomplished actress or her lifetime of performances onstage, but for the scene she staged in the president’s box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eight days the nation will elect Bill Clinton president. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frances Dana Barker Gage, the president of the convention, restored order and the meeting continued. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined that Carole would become the president of something when she grew up or a leader such as Dorothy Height or Mary McLeod Bethune. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The only regret I had about being student body president was having lunch with the Rotary Club at the Santa Maria Inn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I guess I must have sounded like the president or something, and it's so quiet for a second that I think maybe he fell off his chair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constant probing of the president's wound, insertions of tubes, and surgical incisions created plenty of opportunities for bacteria to enter Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, but the U.S. government had to go on. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Paul insisted on using the same route as the president’s inaugural parade, down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since his inauguration as vice president, Arthur had had little contact with Garfield except to lobby for political appointments that the Stalwarts wanted. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z