It does not hail from the traditional English-speaking elite that produced Sri Lanka's other presidents.
Other Presidents would have already expended their political capital if they failed to meet their solemn pledges.
Now, this is a role that other presidents in both parties have taken on in the past.
Mr. Obama likes to convey the impression that he doesn't think or do business like other presidents.
It is true that other presidents have been caught out in bigger lies, and have been forgiven.
We've seen other Presidents and those that they defeated in presidential contests together.
Many of you all have traveled with the President -- this President or other Presidents -- in war zones.
And the President meets with him, as other Presidents have, in that capacity.
Has he consulted with other Presidents who have faced this same thing?
Other Presidents have followed Ronald Reagan's lead in using individuals seated with the First Lady to assign a human face to various policy points.
It is this delicate balance which will give the next president a chance to refashion the court in a way few other presidents have had.
Why not issue a written statement for a man who has come to this White House, visited other Presidents, been honored by other Presidents for his humanitarian efforts?
If he can get the other presidents to sign a paper calling for disbanding the Resistance prior to the elections in February, Ortega will have given his allies in Congress a powerful weapon to use in demanding a cut-off in humanitarian aid.
If they can get the other presidents to sign a paper calling for disbanding the Resistance prior to the elections in February, they will have given their allies in Congress a powerful weapon to use in arguing for a cut-off in humanitarian aid.
Besides, as a Mexican-American who -- as the president-elect famously said -- "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills, " I take enormous pride in what a 47-year-old first-term African-American senator from Illinois was able to accomplish with such grace as to make it look easy.
Insulza and other populist presidents said nothing about Zelaya's dictatorial conduct leading up to Sunday's events.
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The other vice presidents kept silent, says Steel, who had previously been chief financial officer at chipmaker Xilinx.
It is a lesson that other college presidents might take on board.
The medium has been similarly merciless in bringing us other modern presidents, such as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George Bush, Sr.
The other vice presidents kept silent, says Steel, who had previously been chief financial officer at chipmaker Xilinx (nasdaq: XLNX - news - people ).
According to Steel's rendition of the story, he was summoned into a meeting with Banatao, along with other vice presidents, to ask for unfiltered feedback about the company on the eve of the initial offering.
For some observers, Pena Nieto's first days are reminiscent of the splashy starts of other PRI presidents such as Carlos Salinas Gortari, who took office in 1988 and undertook a dramatic series of reforms but left office amid a devastating economic collapse fueled by overspending and budget mismanagement.
But if Obama embraces the soft presidential power strategy that was employed by FDR, Reagan and other successful presidents, he will find himself in a much stronger position than Bush and might very well be able to rescue this nation and build the long-term majority that so many Democrats are hoping for and so many Republicans lament having failed to achieve.
Other modern Democratic presidents have had much more success with very different governing strategies.
Other Latin American presidents have imitated Chavez populist undemocratic style, intimidating opponents, restricting the media and subverting the judiciary.
That's far more than two other ex-presidents - the first President Bush or Jimmy Carter - managed to spend in the same period.
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