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It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley. [2] [3] The institution was registered as Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies and formerly known as the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. The current president of RUSI is the Duke of Kent and its director-general is Karin von ...
The incumbent president is Donald Trump, who assumed office on January 20, 2025. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises from two individuals elected to non-consecutive terms: Grover Cleveland is counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, while Donald ...
Royal United Services Institute, a British defence and security think tank Republic of the United States of Indonesia , a former federal state Rusi (film) , a 1984 Tamil-language Indian feature film
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He assailed the President as a "tired old man" with "tired old men" in his cabinet, pointedly suggesting that the President's lack of vigor had produced a less than vigorous economic recovery. [133] Roosevelt, as most observers could see from his weight loss and haggard appearance, was a tired man in 1944.
Acting President Term of office Main post Notes Alexander Rutskoy Александр Руцкой Born 1947 (age 77) 22 September – 4 October 1993 Vice President: Acting president during the 1993 constitutional crisis. His powers were not recognized by Boris Yeltsin. Viktor Chernomyrdin Виктор Черномырдин 1938–2010 (aged 72)
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the White House on July 2, 1964, as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on. The president's most significant legislative power derives from the Presentment Clause, which gives the president the power to veto any bill passed by Congress.
The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.