After the spill, the president asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reform the government agency that oversees oil drilling.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

By the time Bush asked me to be his WHCF in early 2006, I had already long experience working for the president.

当布什让我做办公室主任时,也就是2006年初，我已经有很长的时间,和他一起工作了。

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President Abraham Lincoln asked the states of the Union for seventy-five thousand soldiers to help end the southern rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Britain refused again. Finally,President Grover Cleveland asked the United States Congress to appoint a committee to decide the border.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Before the speech, a student at the school asked for advice about how to get the president's job.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In his first message to Congress, President Arthur asked for changes in the way government jobs were filled.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

After the earthquake, President Obama asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W.Bush to raise money for Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

It was a cancer. President Cleveland asked how long he could wait to have the cancer removed.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In nineteen thirty-five, the president of Purdue University in Indiana asked Amelia to do some work there.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

President Obama was asked this week by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation if Afghanistan is still winnable.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In nineteen seventy-eight, President Jimmy Carter asked Eartha Kitt back to the White House.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Daniel Webster, without even being asked, wrote an inaugural speech for the new president.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The tribal chiefs asked for the president's help with problems facing their people.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The governor asked President Lincoln to come to the ceremony.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

So the governors asked President Hayes for help.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The South Carolina Governor asked Lamon to give Lincoln this message: "Nothing can prevent war except a decision by the President of the United States to accept the secession of the South.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

He asked the president to do something.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Members of al-Zaidi's 25-member defense team had asked for the charges to be dismissed, arguing President Bush was never in danger.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The commander of U.S.and NATO forces in Afghanistan has asked U.S.President Barack Obama for up to 40,000 more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

And while much has been made of the public anger over the AIG bonuses, no one asked the president about them.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press program, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisors, Christina Romer,was asked if the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Secretary Clinton asked President Joseph Kabila about the case during talks in the eastern city of Goma.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

I have asked the prime minister and the president to continue these intensive discussions by sending their teams back to Washington next week,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

NDI president Kenneth Wollack was asked if his organization, which has monitored could consider the elections in Afghanistan to have been free and fair.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

In his concluding news conference, the president was asked about divisions on this issue.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Sotomayor recently told the CSPAN public affairs network that President Barack Obama asked her to make two promises shortly after accepting his offer for nomination to the Supreme Court.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Isn't that correct? " Hollis asked.Well, that is correct counsel," The former president is pleading not guilty to an 11-count indictment that includes murder,rape,enslavement, and conscription of child soldiers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Earlier,spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked if the president still has full confidence in Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

Regarding Iran's nuclear program, Jones was asked if the Obama administration would engage in dialogue with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following Iran's disputed presidential vote and subsequent protests and unrest.

VOA: standard.2009.08.09