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the officer who holds the supreme command
in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief
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- Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments. War in the Wilderness
- Soon after the coup, Reza Khan became minister of war and defacto commander in chief of the armed forces.
- She has made the case that Barack Obama has not passed what they call commander in chief test, that he doesn't have enough experience, that he has not been involved in the kinds of things that are necessary to make some of the tough decisions, at least that's what Senator Clinton has argued. CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2008
- They also may target his qualifications as commander in chief and past opposition to balanced-budget amendments and Social Security reform ideas.
- When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
- He had to do something for the commander in chief.
- Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
- The nickname punned on CinCEur, which had been General Haig's designation as commander in chief of US forces in Europe, a position he held from 1974 to 1979. Boston.com Top Stories
- (Dutch: Willem van Oranje) (1533-1584), was the leader of the [[Netherlands, history | Dutch Revolt]] as first stadholder of the Netherlands The stadholder was the hereditary chief executive and commander in chief of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]