"Presidency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was not next to the presidency," declared Peter, laughing. "But just keep in mind that we are not ...
— The Story of Leather • Sara Ware Bassett
... Mr. Seward was then held by his own party. It is, perhaps, the worst defect in the constitution of the States, that no incapacity on the part of a minister, no amount of condemnation expressed against him by the people or by Congress, can put him out of office during the term of the existing Presidency. The President can dismiss him; but it generally happens that the President is brought in on a "platform" which has already nominated for him his cabinet as thoroughly as they have nominated him. Mr. Seward ran Mr. Lincoln very hard for the ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope
... be respected. Notwithstanding this, I am sorry to see, that, before my arrival, I have been charged with intermeddling with your presidential election, because in one of my addresses in England I mentioned the name of your fellow-citizen, Mr. Walker, as one of the candidates for the Presidency. I confess with warm gratitude, that Mr. Walker uttered such sentiments in England, as, if happily they are also those of the United States, will enable me to declare, that Hungary and Europe are free. Therefore I feel ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
... granted to troops in India, varying somewhat with the nature of the service they are employed upon, and their distance from the capital of the presidency. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... Washington to act as special envoy to Spain did not tempt him, but he allowed his name to be put forward as a candidate for the presidency in 1796. John Adams received 71 votes and Jefferson 68, which in accordance with the law at that ...
— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.
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