As for trying to arrest a former American president we all know what reaction that would bring.
All this has undermined the joint committee administering relief and rebuilding funds, co-chaired by Mr Bellerive and Bill Clinton, a former American president.
The pair join an elite list of those already given the accolade, including rock group U2, Mother Teresa and former American president Bill Clinton.
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He allowed Jimmy Carter, a former American president, to meet dissidents and speak freely on television during his visit to the island last month.
Bill Clinton, a former American president who is acting as a UN special envoy to the country, led a delegation of private investors there last year.
On a visit to Havana last year, Jimmy Carter, a former American president, gave the dissenters unprecedented publicity by praising the Varela Project during a televised speech.
The party takes its inspiration from a phrase of the former American president, John F Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
Also included in the auction is a signed photo of Charles and Diana with Lord Tonypandy, a signed colour photograph of former American president Ronald Reagan and a signed edition of the memoirs of President Nixon.
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That the two sides have since edged towards a vote to settle their differences owes much to outside pressure specifically, the mediation of the Organisation of American States and the Carter Centre (of Jimmy Carter, a former American president).
In addition, he demanded the right to call scores of high-level witnesses in his defence, including former American president Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany, Kofi Annan, the UN General Secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the former American secretary of state.
Glen S. Fukushima is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
The U.S. delegation is led by two former secretaries of state, George Shultz and James Baker, and other American politicians expected include former vice president Dick Cheney and Republican politician Newt Gingrich.
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Bork worked with Haig to appoint Leon Jaworski, a former president of the American Bar Association.
Anderson Cancer Center and a former president of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
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He is former president of the American College of Cardiology.
Too many people "think that more is better, that more treatment, more testing somehow results in better health care, " said Dr. Glen Stream, former president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which contributed to the list.
Dr. David Faxon , chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and former president of the American Heart Association, began using the device earlier this year to determine the role viscosity may play in clogging or hardening arteries.
Dr. Lawrence Ross, a professor of urology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former president of the American Urological Association, said the school's clinics have seen moderate increases in the last six months to a year and that vasectomies are growing popular among lower-income clients.
Among those on the fund's advisory board are former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians.
Of course, the former Iraqi despot and the one-time American president lived very different lives and, appropriately, came to very different ends.
"We are continually guilty of underestimating American voters, " said Lesley Israel, former president of Politics Inc.
And on the night of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, former President George W. Bush spoke to the American people from the Oval Office, to show he was in command and to reassure the nation.
The former president of Hollinger International struck a plea bargain with American prosecutors.
Obama and his media flacks would have us believe that by speaking of American values and by distinguishing friend from foe, former president George W. Bush raised the hackles of the world against America.
But the more important rebuttal is contained in a new study be Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and now president of the American Action Forum, who finds substantial and "underappreciated" fiscal and economic benefits from more immigration.
Among the key leadership moves announced Wednesday was the appointment of American Mark Hogan, an independent consultant and former GM group vice president, as a board director the first time in Toyota's 76-year history it is appointing board members from outside the company.
For two centuries, Georgia struggled to maintain its identity under czarist and then Soviet rule, and since becoming independent 13 years ago, Georgia has pursued perhaps the most pro-American foreign policy of any former Soviet republic, both under former President Eduard Shevardnadze and the new young leader who toppled him in the Rose Revolution of 2003, 37-year-old Mikhail Sakashvili.
Traditionally Democratic voters, they have grown increasingly disturbed by questioning new research that is being published about Israel's history and outspoken commentary by former President Jimmy Carter and others, who have brought home to some American Jews that their Israeli cousins were never as liberal as they seemed, and are becoming less and less so.
It has ties to Karl Rove's American Crossroads political action committee, whose president is the Chamber's former chief lawyer.
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