"Harry S Truman High School (Levittown, Pennsylvania) Harry S Truman High School (often referred to as HST or simply Truman), formerly Woodrow Wilson High School, is a public high school located in Levittown, Pennsylvania. The school is a part of the Bristol Township School District in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is its only high school. It was named after US President Harry S Truman. It hosts grades 9-12. The current principal is Lyndell Davis. Harry S Truman High School has historically offered the various Advanced Placement (AP) level classes, including U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Chemistry, English"
"heritage. In many cases in the United States, however, a person's middle name has little or no lineage-related context, and is used instead to honor close family friends or notable public figures. In the United States, those who choose to be known primarily by their middle name may abbreviate their first name as an initial, e.g. J. Edgar Hoover (John Edgar Hoover). Others simply omit the first name, like Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow Wilson). A rare case of an individual being given only an initial as a middle name, with the initial not explicitly standing for anything, was Harry S."
"Adams be referred to by the title ""His Rotundity,"" a joke which soon became popular. On May 14, the Senate decided that the title of ""Mr. President"" would be used. Privately, Adams conceded that his vice presidency had begun poorly, and that perhaps he had been out of the country too long to know the sentiment of the people. Washington quietly expressed his displeasure with the fuss and rarely consulted Adams. As Vice President, Adams largely sided with the Washington administration and the emerging Federalist Party. He supported Washington's policies against opposition from anti-Federalists and Republicans. He cast 31 tie-breaking"
"not ""President McAleese"", as had been the form used for the first six presidents, from President Hyde to President Hillery. Tony Blair asked initially to be called ""Tony"". First names, or even nicknames, are often widely used among politicians in the US, even in formal situations (as an extreme example, President James Earl ""Jimmy"" Carter chose to take the Oath of Office using his nickname). One notable exception involves judges: a judge of any court is almost invariably addressed as ""Your Honor"" while presiding over his or her court, and often at other times as well. This style has been"
"SS-100-X SS-100-X was the U.S. Secret Service code name for the presidential limousine originally used by the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. The limousine is the car in which Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy were passengers when the President was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Following Kennedy's assassination, the car received significant armor plating and a bullet-proof hardtop and its navy blue exterior was painted black. It resumed its role as a presidential limousine for President Lyndon B. Johnson until 1967 and later remained in service until 1978, when it was sent"
"President of the United States to serve in the office in between, and including, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. He was particularly close to both of the 1960 major party presidential nominees, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. All three became congressmen in 1947. All three had been young senators together in the early 1950s. Smathers was the only member of the wedding party at the 1953 Newport wedding of John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier who was a member of neither the Kennedy nor Bouvier families. It was through Smathers that Richard Nixon met his best friend and longtime"
"James S. Sherman James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was an American politician who was a United States Representative from New York from 1887 to 1891 and 1893 to 1909, and the 27th Vice President of the United States from 1909 until his death. He was a member of the interrelated Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families, prominent lawyers and politicians of New England and New York. Although not a high-powered administrator, he made a natural congressional committee chairman, and his genial personality eased the workings of the House, so that he was known as 'Sunny Jim'."
"John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald ""Jack"" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph P."
"was experiencing over Watergate. The following were named after Ford: Official sites Media coverage Other Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Before his accession to the presidency, Ford served as the 40th Vice President of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974. Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office. Born in Omaha, Nebraska,"
"President of the United States. Marvin was a 1916 graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, he was nicknamed ""Monk"" and was a stand-out athlete in football, basketball, baseball and tennis. He was inducted into Miami's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1972. He also received graduate degrees from MIT in civil engineering and from Harvard in architectural engineering. Pierce served as the president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines ""Redbook"" and ""McCall's"". Pierce's first marriage (August 1918) was to Pauline Robinson, who was born on 28 April"
"declared that the pretentious European titles were ill-suited for the ""genius of the people"" and ""the nature of our Government."" Washington became completely embarrassed with the topic and so the senators dropped it. From then on the president would simply be called the President of the United States or Mr. President, drawing a sharp distinction between American and European customs. Under the rules of etiquette, the President, Vice President, members of both houses of Congress, governors of states, members of state legislatures, and mayors are accorded the title ""The Honorable"". In 1810, Democratic–Republican Senator Philip Reed of Maryland introduced a"
"officers of the new government. Although the House agreed that the president should be addressed simply as ""George Washington, President of the United States"", the Senate debated the issue at some length. Adams favored the adoption of the style of ""Highness"" (as well as the title of ""Protector of Their [the United States'] Liberties"") for the president. Some senators favored a variant of ""Highness"" or the lesser ""Excellency""."" Anti-federalists in the Senate objected to the monarchical sound of them all; Jefferson described them as ""superlatively ridiculous."" The Senate emphasized simplicity and republicanism, and many argued that these ""distinctions,"" as Adams"
"shortened pronunciations, as many speakers find the phrase ""double-u double-u double-u"" inconveniently long. In other Germanic languages, including German (but not Dutch, in which it is pronounced wé), its name is similar to that of English V . In many languages, its name literally means ""double v"": Portuguese ""duplo vê"", Spanish ""doble ve"" (though it can be spelled ""uve doble""), French ""double vé"", Icelandic ""tvöfalt vaff"", Czech ""dvojité vé"", Finnish ""kaksois-vee"", etc. Former U.S. president George W. Bush was given the nickname ""Dubya"" after the colloquial pronunciation of his middle initial in Texas, where he spent much of his childhood."
"a pampered scion of wealth whose feet were ""encased in fine silk hosiery."" Hallowell fired back that having silk socks was better than having none at all. With the help of populist campaigner Mary Elizabeth Lease, Simpson won a new nickname, ""Sockless Jerry,"" and an 8,000-vote margin of victory in the race. In Congress, Simpson was a forceful advocate for populist causes and became nationally known as the party's congressional leader. In 1892, he was re-elected by a slim 2,000-vote majority, running slightly behind James Weaver, the party's presidential nominee, who had also managed to seize the Democratic ballot line"
"in vain”). He was a leading performer in the election and it was felt that had the Conservatives lost he might well have won the party leadership and been Leader of the Opposition, while if they won he would probably be given Trade and Industry, the job he had always wanted. Following the 1992 general election he was appointed Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, choosing to be known by the title, dormant since 1974, of ""President of the Board of Trade"". He insisted on being addressed as “President” (""not"" “Mr President”) and being referred to as “the President”."
"The future president was never formally adopted and did not legally change his name until December 3, 1935; he also used a more conventional spelling of his middle name. He was raised in Grand Rapids with his three half-brothers from his mother's second marriage: Thomas Gardner ""Tom"" Ford (1918–1995), Richard Addison ""Dick"" Ford (1924–2015), and James Francis ""Jim"" Ford (1927–2001). Ford also had three half-siblings from the second marriage of Leslie King Sr., his biological father: Marjorie King (1921–1993), Leslie Henry King (1923–1976), and Patricia Jane King (1925–1980). They never saw one another as children, and he did not know"
"Truman. (He once told reporters—apparently at odds with his own practice—that the S should thus not be followed by period.) More than two given names are fairly common. In England they are traditionally more common among the ""upper classes"" and ""middle classes"". Examples are J. R. R. Tolkien, W.E.B. Du Bois, George H. W. Bush. Middle names can also be used as first names. Major examples are Paul McCartney, Mitt Romney, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Sylvester Stallone, Jonathan Demme, Riley Keough, Reese Witherspoon, Hayley Orrantia, Brad Pitt, Ashton Kutcher, Meghan Markle, Rihanna, Scott Chandler, Nomar Garciaparra, Bill Mumy, Roger Waters"
"with an honorific such as ""don José Antonio"" or ""don José"". It is not unusual, when the first surname is very common, like ""García"" in the example above, for a person to be referred to formally using both family names, or casually by his or her second surname only. For example, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (elected President of the Spanish Government in the 2004 and 2008 general elections) is often called simply Zapatero, the name he inherited from his mother's family, since Rodríguez is a common surname and may be ambiguous. The same occurs with another former Spanish Socialist leader,"
"changed the marks, to what is referred to as presidential marks. The presidential marks consist of a crescent containing the initials of the incumbent President of the United States, starting with CC in the term of Coolidge, and following with HH in the term of Herbert Hoover and so on. Under the crescent is a Roman numeral, which may indicate, either in what term of the presidency it was produced, or - by some accounts – it stands for the exact year of the presidency it was produced. Over the crescent, the mark contains a Pine tree, this is another"
"just south of latitude −74°. Theodore Roosevelt McElroy McElroy was born September 15, 1901 (baptism 1903) in Somerville, Massachusetts. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States upon the death of President William McKinley, September 14. McElroy was born the next day and in admiration of this ""cowboy president"" his parents named him ""Theodore Roosevelt."" He went by the name Teddy, Ted, T.R., or Mac as he disliked his birth name. He was the third of six children from a family with an Irish background. McElroy began his career at Western Union as messenger when he was 14"
"Mr. President (title) The title ""Mr. President"" (m.) or Madam President (f.) may apply to a person holding the title of president, or presiding over certain other governmental bodies. Adopted in the 1790s by George Washington, the first President of the United States, as his official manner of address as head of state, ""Mr. President"" has subsequently been used by other governments to refer to their heads of state. It is the conventional translation of non-English titles such as ""Monsieur le Président"" for the President of the French Republic. It also has a long history of usage as the title"
"Life Achievements He was born poor (he wore shoes only on Sundays to go to mass) and managed to reach Division General, War and Navy Secretary, Secretary of Industry and Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Governor of Northern Territory of Baja California and of the State of Sonora and became President of the Republic of Mexico. Since he was very young he worked in one of his brothers' hardware store where he learned to speak English and only had a formal education up to the 4th grade. He entered and quickly climbed up the military ladder due to his character, work"
"such as William McKinley's, the header was displayed in the upper right corner. President Grover Cleveland distinguished cards signed during his two non-consecutive terms in office by adding the year under his signature during his second term. President Benjamin Harrison preferred to respond to autograph requests by signing a card with an engraved view of the White House. Executive Mansion cards signed by Harrison, therefore, are somewhat scarce. One month after taking office following McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt changed the name of the presidential residence from ""Executive Mansion"" to ""White House,"" which it had been popularly called since 1810. With"
"Second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant The second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States was held on Tuesday, March 4, 1873. The inauguration marked the commencement of the second four-year term of Ulysses S. Grant as President and the only term of Henry Wilson as Vice President. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the presidential oath of office. This was one of the coldest inaugurations in US history, and the inaugural ball ended early when the food froze. Wilson died into this term, and the office remained vacant for the balance of it. (Prior to"
"President of the United States three times. The middle child of five, his siblings are Ronald ""Ronnie"" Paul Jr., Lori Paul Pyeatt, Robert Paul, and Joy Paul-LeBlanc. Paul was baptized in the Episcopal Church and identified as a practicing Christian as a teenager. Despite his father's libertarian views and strong support for individual rights, the novelist Ayn Rand was not the inspiration for his first name. Growing up, he went by ""Randy"", but his wife shortened it to ""Rand."" The Paul family moved to Lake Jackson, Texas, in 1968, where he was raised and where his father began a medical"
"Adams deemed even ""Highness"" insufficient and instead proposed that the Executive, both the President and the Vice President (i.e., himself), be styled ""Majesty"", with only which the ""great danger"" of insufficient dignity being attached to the executive could be solved. Adams' efforts were met with widespread derision and perplexion; Thomas Jefferson called them ""the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of"", while Benjamin Franklin considered it ""absolutely mad"". The proposal came to naught, and American Presidents, from Washington onwards, have eschewed honorific titles and styles altogether and are simply referred to as ""Mr. President"". In modern-day Samoa, the O"
"of America, headed by Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs to form the Socialist Party of America. In July 1908, the SLP briefly made national news with the nomination of Martin R. Preston, a convicted killer serving a 25-year prison sentence in Nevada, for President of the United States. Making the nomination on the convention floor was party leader Daniel De Leon himself, who noted that Preston had ""acted as the protector of defenseless girls"" during a strike and had killed a restaurateur who had threatened him with death. Despite the fact that the 32-year-old Preston was under the"
"in The Bronx neighborhood of New York City, where he later attended Columbus High School and later graduated from City University of New York with a degree in mathematics. Rosen has received appointments by US presidents from both parties. Under US President Bill Clinton, he was a presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, as well as a member of the NASA Advisory Council and other roles. He was a US State Department delegate to the Organization of American States. He was later close enough to President George W Bush to receive one of the president's famous nicknames:"
"tie-breaking vote as President of the Senate, against a Robert A. Taft amendment that would have blocked the postwar delivery of Lend-Lease Act items contracted for during the war. Roosevelt rarely contacted him, even to inform him of major decisions; the President and Vice President met alone together only twice during their time in office. In one of his first acts as vice president, Truman created some controversy when he attended the disgraced Pendergast's funeral. He brushed aside the criticism, saying simply, ""He was always my friend and I have always been his."" He had rarely discussed world affairs or"
"Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt Franklin was a Muppet featured on the children's television series ""Sesame Street"" during the early 1970s. He is purple with shaggy black hair that stands on end. His name is a word play on the name of the late US President Franklin Roosevelt, but the first and last names are reversed. ""Sesame Street"" cast member Matt Robinson, who also played Gordon on the series for the first three seasons (1969-72), provided Roosevelt Franklin's voice. Franklin was an intelligent boy who often spoke in rhyme or scat. Franklin began to appear less frequently in episodes created after the"
"years), or as ""Mr. Vice President"" (George W. Bush in ). However, earlier presidents referred to the vice president as ""Mr. President"" while addressing a joint session of Congress; Dwight D. Eisenhower, for instance, did so in , and George H. W. Bush did so in . This list includes all Presidents of the Senate (the Vice Presidents of the United States), those Presidents pro tempore of the Senate who presided during intra–term vacancies in the vice presidency or when the Vice President was acting as President of the United States, and those Chief Justices who presided during presidential impeachment"
"President 1900–01 and 1904–05; their eldest daughter Sarah (1831–1922) married John Dendy (1828–94) and their children included: John Dendy OBE (1852–1924); Mary Dendy, the pioneer of residential schools for mentally handicapped people; the social reformer Helen Bosanquet; and the biologist Arthur Dendy. Beard published popular education manuals, theological works and, as both an editor and a journalist, engaged in vigorous Unitarian propaganda. He is best remembered for ""The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture"" (1853) and several reference volumes on a variety of topics. He wrote in simple language and attempted to translate complicated foreign affairs—such as the Haitian struggle for independence—into"
"Mr. President (radio series) Mr. President was a radio series that ran on the ABC Network from June 26, 1947, to September 23, 1953. Each half-hour episode was based on an incident in the life of one of the people who have held the office of President of the United States, but the dialogs were written in such a way as not to reveal the name of the President until the last line of dialog at the end of the program, when the President would be addressed by name. An advertisement for the program noted, ""Each week the suspense mounts"