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| Â | NSPD-1: Organization of the National Security Council System |
 | | Management of the development and implementation of national security policies by multiple agencies of the United States Government shall usually be accomplished by the NSC Policy Coordination Committees (NSC/PCCs). |  | | National security includes the defense of the United States of America, protection of our constitutional system of government, and the advancement of United States interests around the globe. |  | | When international economic issues are on the agenda of the NSC, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy shall perform these tasks in concert. |
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| Â | The United Europe Foundation |
 | | President Jacques Chirac of France called Friday for a strong Europe to balance U.S. might even as he and other leaders appeared to back away, at a European Union summit meeting here, from proposed reforms to resuscitate Europe's economy. |  | | The future of Ukraine is in Europe", European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said after a meeting with Kiev's new prime minister Yuri Yekhanurov in Brussels. |  | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president and chief architect of Europe's draft constitution, has backed a growing campaign to offer Turkey a “privileged partnership” with the European Union rather than full membership. |
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| Â | United States budget process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The budget process begins in February with the submission of the President's budget. |  | | In contrast to most legislation passed by Congress, the budget resolution is a concurrent resolution and thus does not become law and does not require the signature of the President. |  | | The President's Budget of the United States Government, FY 1996 -- present |
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| Â | President of the United States - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
 | | The United States presidential line of succession is a well-detailed list of government officials to serve or act as President upon a vacancy in the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and conviction). |  | | The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years. |  | | Through the Department of State and the Department of Defense, the president is responsible for the protection of Americans abroad and of foreign nationals in the United States. |
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| Â | Social Security (United States) - encyclopedia article about Social Security (United States). |
 | | The law was drafted by President The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. |  | | Because of the superpower status of the United States, the American President is considered by many to be the most powerful person on Earth, and is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. |  | | Social Security in the United States United States of America—also referred to as 'the United States', 'the US', 'the USA', 'America' (more loosely), 'the States' (colloquially), and 'Columbia' (poetically)—is a federal republic of 50 states, located primarily in central North America. |
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| Â | U.S.A. Presidents' Theme |
 | | George Washington was the 1st president of the United States. |  | | About Famous People: The Presidents of the United States |  | | He was the third president of the United States. |
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| Â | United States National Security Council - SourceWatch |
 | | Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. |  | | The Chief of Staff to the President, Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy are invited to attend any NSC meeting. |  | | "The National Security Council is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. |
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| Â | U.S. CONSTITUTION |
 | | Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. |  | | Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789. |  | | On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced. |
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| Â | Executive Order, January 25, 1993 (Press Release) |
 | | By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 105, 107, and 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: |  | | The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as the President's principal budget spokesperson, will continue to be the senior budget official in the executive branch. |  | | (d) The Secretary of the Treasury will continue to be the senior economic official in the executive branch and the President's chief economic spokesperson. |
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| Â | Budget of the United States Government: Main Page |
 | | Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. |  | | Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year. |  | | Find the Federal budget (including issues prior to 1983) at a local Federal depository library. |
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| Â | President Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) |
 | | Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) |  | | The official title of the Prime Minister of Serbia is Chairman of the Government, while the country has a President of Serbia. |  | | Though the prime minister remains an appointee of the president, the president must obey the rules of parliament, and select a leader from the house's majority holding party. |
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| Â | Presidents' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Presidents' Day is the common name for the United States federal holiday officially designated as Washington's Birthday; it is celebrated on the third Monday of February. |  | | In American schools the days leading up to the holiday are often used to educate students on the history of the Presidents of the United States, especially Washington and Lincoln. |  | | By tradition, the holiday also honors at least Abraham Lincoln and often other Presidents of the United States as well. |
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| Â | United States budget process - encyclopedia article about United States budget process. |
 | | United States Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) which is tasked with coordinating United States Federal agencies. |  | | The budget process begins in February with the submission of the President The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. |  | | Because of the superpower status of the United States, the American President is considered by many to be the most powerful person on Earth, and is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. |
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| Â | United Fruit Company-Jacobo Arbenz |
 | | This standoff led to worsening diplomatic relations between his country and the United States which saw his initiatives as too radical. |  | | The Guatemalan government did its valuation by using the information provided by the tax forms filled by United Fruit itself and, according to this information, this was the actual value of the land. |  | | The Guatemalan government refused to pay that amount and continued to expropriate United Fruit's lands in October 1953 and February 1954 offering the company a total of $500,000. |
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| Â | Philippine president - encyclopedia article about Philippine president. |
 | | Manuel L. Quezon is considered to be the first president by the United States and the first to win an election. |  | | Despite the differences in constitutions and government, the line of presidents is considered to be continuous. |  | | The official title of the president is the "President of the Philippines," as specified in the present Constitution of the Philippines (1987). |
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| Â | United Utilities, Incorporated ( Now Sprint ) |
 | | Later, in 1964, when Paul H. Henson – a 1995 KBHF Contemporary Honors Award recipient – became president of United Utilities, Inc., he almost immediately reorganized the company in accordance with C.L. Brown’s belief that centralizing some of the company’s functions would result in greater efficiency, cost reductions, and growth. |  | | UT&E was dissolved, and its assets placed under the new company, United Utilities, Incorporated. |  | | United Telecom was founded in 1899, by C.L. Brown and Jacob Brown, to deploy reliable, reasonably-priced telephone service to the rural area around Abilene. |
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 | | In April the SEC accused United Brands of bribing the President of Honduras, Osvaldo Lopez Arellano with $1.25 million, with the promise of another $1.25 million later, in exchange for a reduction in the export taxes Honduras committed under the light of UPEB rules. |  | | United Fruit Company signs an ninety-nine year concession with Guatemala President General Jorge Ubico and opens its second plantation in the country in the region of Tiquisate. |  | | United Brands admits that it had paid a bribe of $2.5 million to the former Honduran minister of economy, Abraham Bennaton Ramos. |
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| Â | Budget of the United States Government: Main Page |
 | | Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. |  | | Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year. |  | | Budget of the United States Government: Main Page |
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| Â | BOWSHER v. SYNAR, 478 U.S. 714 (1986) |
 | | United States, 272 U.S. At issue in Myers was a statute providing that certain postmasters could be removed only "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." The President removed one such Postmaster without Senate approval, and a lawsuit ensued. |  | | The Comptroller General heads the General Accounting Office (GAO), "an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments," 31 U.S.C. 702(a), which was created by Congress in 1921 as part of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, 42 Stat. |  | | In preparing the report, the Comptroller General is to have "due regard" for the estimates and reductions set forth in a joint report submitted to him by the Director of CBO and the Director of OMB, the President's fiscal and budgetary adviser. |
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| Â | Presidents' Day: Activities |
 | | Students can learn more about the first President of the United States by going on an Internet treasure hunt. |  | | Students will read Sections 1–4 of Article II of the United States Constitution, learn more about powers granted to the President of the United States, and write a “Help Wanted” advertisement for the job. |  | | Have students watch an animated growth chart of the United States from President Washington's time to 1907. |
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| Â | CIA - The World Factbook -- United States |
 | | Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for life on condition of good behavior by the president with confirmation by the Senate); United States Courts of Appeal; United States District Courts; State and County Courts |  | | Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. |  | | During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. |
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 | | The Senate Finance Committee of the United States includes bananas in the proposed Underwood-Simmons Tariff. |  | | United Fruit Company signs an ninety-nine year concession with Guatemala President General Jorge Ubico and opens its second plantation in the country in the region of Tiquisate. |  | | United Fruit's Home Economics Department publishes the school teacher manual entitled "A Study of the Banana: The Everyday Use and Food Value." The manual gave a detailed description of the food value of bananas and gave suggestions of preparation. |
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 | | Monnet and his Action Committee were unofficially supervising the negotiations and as soon as obstacles appeared, the United States diplomatic machinery was alerted, mostly through Ambassador Bruce... |  | | An idea of revolutionary daring had been launched and was being acclaimed by the Six and the United States -- a minerals and metals superstate.... |  | | At that time there were many campaigns underway to create a United States of Europe. |
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| Â | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 276, UNITED STATES NOTES.: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | They were to be issued in payment of the debts of the United States to any creditor who would receive them, and were to be receivable in payment of all debts and dues to the government. |  | | The treasury notes would have two advantages over exchequer bills; one, the superior credit of the United States; and the other, that they were receivable for taxes and public dues. |  | | A brief sketch in reference to the bills of credit or treasury notes, issued by the government, by the colonies, and of the circulating notes issued by the banks previous to the adoption of the constitution, is given in the article on "Banking in the United States," in the first volume of this Cyclopædia. |
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| Â | The President of Finland: United for Europe |
 | | Only an economically strong Europe, united in solidarity, can shape the forces of globalization and give globalization the social dimension we deem necessary. |  | | For todayÂ’s youth, war between the states of the European Union is unthinkable - and rightly so. |  | | Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and outgoing President of the EU Council, noted that anyone with doubts, anyone despairing of Europe, should pay a visit to the war cemeteries. |
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| Â | Philip Murray: Information From Answers.com |
 | | However, Murray was elected president of the United Steel Workers of America in 1942 when that union was formed. |  | | In 1905 he was elected president of the United Mine Workers local in Horning, Pennsylvania. |  | | Lewis was also president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the umbrella body for industrial unions, and appointed his close associate Murray to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in 1936. |
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| Â | Secret Service, United States - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Secret Service, United States |
 | | The Secret Service enforces federal laws relating to currency, coins, obligations, and the securities of the United States and foreign governments, including forgery and fraudulent electronic transfer. |  | | Secret Service, United States, a law enforcement division (since 2003) of the Dept. of Homeland Security. |  | | This protection was later extended to the members of the immediate families of the president, vice president, president-elect, and vice president–elect; major presidential and vice presidential candidates; former presidents and their spouses; widows of former presidents until their death or remarriage; minor children of a former president; and visiting heads of state. |
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| Â | Clinton Praises A United Europe - May 13, 1998 |
 | | Thursday, the president will travel to England for the annual summit of leaders from Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, the United States and Russia. |  | | The president spoke of a shared vision for a united Europe and a strong U.S.-Europe partnership. |  | | BERLIN (AllPolitics, May 13) -- President Bill Clinton pointed to Germany's post-Cold War reunification as an example for all of Europe, speaking before the German government and people Wednesday. |
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| Â | United States Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
 | | To link its vast territories, the United States built a network of high capacity, high speed highways, of which the most important aspect is the Interstate Highway system, commissioned in the 1950s by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and modeled after the German Autobahn. |  | | The largest trading partner of the United States is Canada (20%), followed by Mexico (12%), China (Mainland 10%, Hong Kong 1%) and Japan (8%). |  | | The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America. |
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