"executives in the film, music, and television industries have also been counted among its members or have participated in its events including film directors such as Sidney Pollack and Roland Joffe, Barbara Kopple, TV executive Ted Harbert. After a hiatus, Duff reorganized Show Coalition under its new name, The Common Good, at which she currently serves as Chairman. The Common Good brings a wide range of speakers to its members, including those active in politics, media, business and entertainment. Past speakers include: President: Bill Clinton Vice Presidents: Al Gore, Dick Cheney Government Officials: James Baker, William Cohen, Henry Kissinger, Peter"
"Washington (name) Washington () is a male given name and a surname. It most frequently refers to George Washington (1732–1799), the first President of the United States of America. The name itself is a name of origin and refers to place names in England, such as Washington, Tyne and Wear, from which the ancestors of George Washington are said to have come. The word became a surname in 1183 when William de Hertburn took the name William de Wassyngtona. In 1657 the name came to Virginia; from 1789 to 1797 George Washington was president. Since this time the given name"
"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"
"in the United States and South America, evoking the memory of George Washington. Washington (name) Washington () is a male given name and a surname. It most frequently refers to George Washington (1732–1799), the first President of the United States of America. The name itself is a name of origin and refers to place names in England, such as Washington, Tyne and Wear, from which the ancestors of George Washington are said to have come. The word became a surname in 1183 when William de Hertburn took the name William de Wassyngtona. In 1657 the name came to Virginia; from"
"Andrew Johnson); President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia; President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife, Lucy; President James Garfield and his wife, Lucretia; Mary Arthur McElroy, sister of widowed President Chester Arthur; Ruth, Esther, and Marion Cleveland, young daughters of President Grover Cleveland; President Benjamin Harrison and his wife, Caroline; President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife, Edith; President William Howard Taft and his wife, Helen; President Woodrow Wilson and his first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson; President Warren G. Harding and his wife, Florence; President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace; and President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou."
"so named. The most common county name, with 31, is Washington County, for America's first president, George Washington. Up until 1871, there was a Washington County within the District of Columbia, but it was dissolved by the District of Columbia Organic Act. Jefferson County, for Thomas Jefferson, is next with 27. The most recent president to have a county named for him was Warren G. Harding, reflecting the slowing rate of county creation since New Mexico and Arizona became states in 1912. The most common names for counties not named after a president are Franklin (25), Clay (18), and Montgomery"
"President Jimmy Carter, through his mother, is thought to descend from Johann Valentin Preslar/Presler, who along with his family reached America and later the then frontier area of the central Carolinas sometime during the mid-18th century. Elvis Presley may have the same ancestor. Today, Presley ranks as the 1,825 most common surname in the United States. Also: As a first or other name: Variants of the name: Presley Most instances of the surname Presley and variants Pressley and Pressly are thought to be ultimately of English, Scottish or Welsh origin. Later, if not found in some form originating also in"
"descent and three presidents whose fathers were of German descent: Dwight D. Eisenhower (whose original family name was ""Eisenhauer""),Herbert Hoover (""Huber""), and Donald Trump. Later US Presidents' ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe. Some White Americans have varying amounts of American Indian and Sub-Saharan African ancestry. In a recent study, Gonçalves et al. 2007 reported Sub-Saharan and Amerindian mtDna lineages at a frequency of 3.1% (respectively 0.9% and 2.2%) in American Caucasians (Please note that in the USA, ""Caucasian"" includes people from North Africa and Western Asia as well as Europeans). Recent research on"
"still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration's list of names given in 2006. In modern times John is the most common name in the United States, born as a first or middle name by 39.93 people per thousand; of these, 72.86% have it as the given name. When the statistics of the name are compared to the population statistics of America, the approximate number of people named John in the USA is 12,328,091 and the number of Johns in the USA is increasing by 104,925 each year. ""John"" was also among the most common"
"births in the United States between November 1883 and November 1884 (the month when Cleveland won his first presidential election), and spiked again after he won the 1892 election. The name later declined in popularity, and was last one of the top one thousand names in the United States in the 1970s. One notable modern usage is for Grover the Muppet on the television show ""Sesame Street"". Grover (given name) Grover is a masculine given name. Grover first became popular as a given name in the United States during the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, in part of a long-standing American"
"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"
"US Civil War. Dolley Madison, the wife of President James Madison, was remembered after her death in 1849 by President Zachary Taylor as ""truly our First Lady for a half a century."" First Ladies are usually referred to simply as ""Mrs. [last name]"" In the case of the United States electing a married woman as President, her husband would presumably be addressed as either First Man or First Gentleman, while the President herself would presumably be addressed as Madam President. On November 8, 2016, the night of the 2016 presidential election in the United States, images of leaked pre-printed copies"
"Calum Laurie. Swedish travel agents usually book people using the first and daily name if the first one is not their main name, despite advice to use only the first name. If this is too long, the spelling in the MRZ could be used. For people using a variant of their first name in daily speech, for example the former US president Bill Clinton whose full name is William Jefferson Clinton, the advice is to spell their name as in the passport. Chinese, Japanese and Korean names might pose a challenge too, since the family name is normally written first."
"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"
"and 24th President of the United States. Harry S. Truman – 33rd President of the United States. Martha Washington – The 1st First Lady of the United States. Martin Van Buren – 8th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States. Former President Herbert Hoover became the first honorary chairman of Tolstoy Foundation in Valley Cottage, New York, in 1939 and served in this capacity until his death in 1964. Thurgood Marshall – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Jane Kannif, the widow of a Scotch physician, lived in a"
"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"
"Pseudonyms of Donald Trump American businessman, politician, and 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, has used several pseudonyms, including ""John Barron"" (or ""John Baron""), ""John Miller"" and ""David Dennison"". His practice of sometimes speaking to the media under the guise of a spokesperson has been described as ""an open secret"" at the Trump Organization and in New York media circles. Some New York editors recalled that ""calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk."" A writer for ""Fortune"" reported that Trump's father Fred Trump had used the pseudonym"
"between ranks 130 and 231 during 1945–2016). Notable people with this name include: Fictional characters: Calvin (given name) Calvin is a masculine given name. It has been especially popular among American Protestants, who may be baptized as John Calvin to honor the religious leader, although in the judgement of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names, the modern given name ""owes its popularity as much to the New York fashion designer Calvin Klein [b. 1942] as to the theologian"". In the United States, the name had a short burst of popularity in the mid-to-late 1920s, due to president Calvin Coolidge (in"
"have since speculated that Donald Trump was really the person who had the affair with Bechard.<ref name=""Campos_5/8/2018""></ref><ref name=""Campos_5/22/2018""></ref><ref name=""Bunch_5/22/2018""></ref> Pseudonyms of Donald Trump American businessman, politician, and 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, has used several pseudonyms, including ""John Barron"" (or ""John Baron""), ""John Miller"" and ""David Dennison"". His practice of sometimes speaking to the media under the guise of a spokesperson has been described as ""an open secret"" at the Trump Organization and in New York media circles. Some New York editors recalled that ""calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring"
"spread throughout the USA as patriotic. In addition to a genealogical origin of the name, it is also (as with Abraham Lincoln and other persons associated with abolition of slavery in America) a favored assumed name of freed slaves and thus a widely spread surname of their progeny in the black population of the USA. The name appears also as a male given name, often as a second or third name in honor of George Washington. The surname historically derived from the English place name. Washington as a male given name is derived from the surname. It is particularly popular"
"able to do so, because of its distinctiveness. Others have come to be known by a mononym that has been applied to them by some segment of the public. Oprah Winfrey, famed American talk show host, is usually referred to by only her first name, Oprah. The public has referred to President George W. Bush by the mononym ""Dubya"" (eye dialect of ""W""), to distinguish from his father, President George (H.W.) Bush. Both mechanisms contributed in the case of Hillary Clinton, who has been called, and has publicly called herself, ""Hillary"". Peter Funt, of ""Candid Camera"", wrote in a February"
"given name, not his surname as most foreigners wrongly suppose. President Nailatikau has likewise passed his given name on to his children as a surname. Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda, better known simply as ""Ratu Josefa Iloilo"", who served as President of Fiji from 2000 to 2009, is an example of a Fijian who had a surname, but did not generally use it, except for legal purposes. ""Iloilo,"" the name by which he was generally known, which most non-Fijians mistakenly assumed to be his surname, was thus a diminutive of his second given name. This shortening of names is another common"
"the given name of Schuyler Colfax, the 17th vice president of the United States. The spelling Skylar was the 479th most common name for boys born in the United States in 2007 and the 171st most common name for girls born there in 2007. The spelling Skyler was the 271st most common name for boys born in the United States in 2007 and the 374th most popular name for girls. The spelling Schuyler last ranked among the top 1,000 names for boys in the United States in 1994, when it was at 974th place on the charts. Schuyler (name) Schuyler"
"almost every year since then. The name is, for the most part, found in North America. In 1982, the name was the 7th most common given name amongst African American males, and the 23rd most common name amongst White American males. The name was ranked in the 1990 United States Census as being the 68th most common name amongst males. The Social Security Administration website lists the top 1,000 American baby names for every year since 1879. In the year 1950, ""Brandon"" first reached the top 1,000 male names for babies who were registered for Social Security numbers for births."
"to the northwest. The first person to bear the title of President, John Mercer Langston, was one of the best-known blacks of his day. Until 1992, he was the only black ever elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (elected in 1888), and he was the great-uncle of the famed writer Langston Hughes. From 1888 to 1968, four presidents - James H. Johnston, John M. Gandy, Luther H. Foster, Robert P. Daniel served an average of 20 years, helping the school to overcome adversity and move forward. The next twenty years, 1968-1992, saw six more presidents—James F. Tucker, Wendell"
"ranking polls conducted in the United States since 1948, Lincoln has been rated at the very top in the majority of polls: Schlesinger 1948, Schlesinger 1962, 1982 Murray Blessing Survey, ""Chicago Tribune"" 1982 poll, Schlesinger 1996, C-SPAN 1996, Ridings-McIver 1996, ""Time"" 2008, C-SPAN 2009 and C-SPAN 2017. Generally, the top three presidents are rated as 1. Lincoln; 2. George Washington; and 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, although Lincoln and Washington, and Washington and Roosevelt, are occasionally reversed. The successful reunification of the states had consequences for the name of the country. The term ""the United States"" has historically been used, sometimes"
"Grover (given name) Grover is a masculine given name. Grover first became popular as a given name in the United States during the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, in part of a long-standing American trend of naming babies after presidents. Cleveland's official first name was Stephen; he was named after Stephen Grover, a former minister at the church his parents attended. However, from childhood, Cleveland's friends addressed him by his middle name instead, and so what was originally the surname Grover became a given name. According to Social Security Administration data, the name Grover increased in frequency by 850 per 100,000"
"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"
"he issued proclamations annually. Republican George W. Bush administration (2001–2009) made his first presidential act be the announcement of a National Day of Prayer, and he held events at the White House in each year of his presidency. Democrat Barack Obama (2009–2017) did not hold any public events at the White House, though he issued presidential proclamations regularly each year. Republican President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended church services in observation of a special National Day of Prayer, which Trump previously declared, in support of the victims of Hurricane Harvey dwelling in the state of Texas, to"
"variants in both spelling and pronunciation have come into use, such as Jacquelyn, Jackeline, Jackielyn, Jacklyn, and Jaclyn. The diminutive for Jacqueline is Jacquie, Jackie, Jacque or Jacqui, which also has many variants. Jacqueline is a very popular female first name, used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia, South Africa and elsewhere. One of the most famous persons to bear the name in the twentieth century is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, often referred to as Jackie Kennedy following her marriage to U.S. President John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963. The name's popular image"
"as a surname, with occasional usage as a masculine name. The name entered the top 1000 list for girls in 1985 and has been a top 10 name since 1997. In 2014, the name Arya, the name of a character on the popular series ""Game of Thrones"", saw a dramatic rise to the 216th most popular girls name. Names in popular culture fare better as inspiration if they fit in with current naming trends. When Barack Obama was inaugurated as president in 2009, his name had a surge in popularity, but still has not made it into the top 1000"
"the United States on January 20, 2001, and re-elected in 2004. Through previous administrations, the elder Bush had ubiquitously been known as ""George Bush"" or ""President Bush"", but following his son's election the need to distinguish between them has made retronymic forms such as ""George H. W. Bush"" and ""George Bush senior"" and colloquialisms such as ""Bush 41"" and ""Bush the Elder"" much more common. H.W. Bush was traveling to Minnesota for a speaking engagement on the day of the September 11 attacks. George W. made multiple calls to get in contact with his father before the two men reconnected"
"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,"