Doctor Selanikio says he first recognized a need when he worked for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

In his inaugural speech, Van Buren noted that he was the first American born after the revolution to become president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He first gained wide attention in two thousand four when he won a talent competition on Jamaican television.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

He united the nation. And he took the first steps that destroyed the institution of slavery in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

In India,he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: special.2010.11.13

And he was the first black director of the United States Information Agency which at the time supervised the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

It was there he first developed two ideas that were important for the rest of his life.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

He first became interested in studying infectious disease when he volunteered in Surinam during his medical training.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

He says he first heard about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He became the first known American suicide bomber last October when he blew himself up in Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

A writer for the magazine "American Speech" said he first saw the expression used in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2010.05.16