As the story goes, George Washington ordered a replica and its die destroyed after Congress suggested minting a coin bearing his image during his first presidency.
But the first and perhaps the biggest test for Finland's next prime minister, whoever he is, will come when the country embarks on its first presidency of the European Union in the second half of this year.
In the first Bush presidency the common enemy was Iraq.
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While this may not seem like a lot of jobs to show for the first four years of the Obama presidency, it must be remembered that an astonishing 4.316 million jobs were lost in the first 13 months of the Obama presidency including 800, 000 lost in the first month along creating a hole that was virtually impossible to climb out of in four short years.
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This may be too constraining for Poland, which sees its first-ever presidency as a step in the renaissance of a martyred nation.
EU unless that country is not a euro-member, as when Sweden holds the presidency in the first half of 2001, when the trinity will look to the next euro country in the presidency, in this case Belgium.
President Barack Obama is expected to make the first trip of his presidency to Israel next month.
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He did the same in the first hours of his presidency at the end of last year.
Many bosses were convinced, when Mr Obama first ran for the presidency, that he was listening to them.
Obama's pledge to tackle immigration during the first year of his presidency ran into stiff opposition from congressional Republicans.
Three sentences into his inaugural address four years ago, Barack Obama made the first mistake of his presidency.
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So we'll have to see if he's willing to cast his first veto of his presidency on a defense bill.
Mr Mutharika's first try for the presidency was in the 1999 elections but he came last among the five candidates.
But further reductions are unlikely in view of the political tumult during the first year of the presidency of Michel Martelly, a former musician.
Ong, who was diagnosed as suffering from lymphatic cancer in 1992, chose instead to run in the first elections for the presidency the following year.
Obama, for nearly the first time in his Presidency, emphasized the ideological divide between the two parties rather than offering bromides about what they shared.
He failed in his first bid for the presidency in 1995, but won the 2000 elections on a promise to sign Luis Figo from Barca.
First, the Mitterrand presidency moved from doctrinaire socialism towards pragmatic agnosticism.
His first run for the presidency in 1987 collapsed in ignominy when he was accused of plagiarising his stump speech from of all people Neil Kinnock, the dismal leader of Britain's Labour Party.
Mr Gul was first nominated for the presidency earlier this year but his candidacy was attacked by Turkey's secular establishment - in particular, the powerful military and outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
To be fair, the first years of his presidency did witness achievements: bold plans to end conscription and streamline the armed forces, to overhaul France's sickly public-health system, revamp the arms industry, sell off or deregulate swathes of the public sector.
With the commander in chief often making tough choices early on, while doing everything possible to spur the economy late in the four years to ensure personal or party re-election, it is not surprising that equities have performed less well in the first year of the presidency.
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He ended the Korean War within the first 6 months of his presidency.
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Mr Clinton spent the first two years of his presidency trying and failing to guarantee all citizens medical insurance.
The fundamental justification is that the President tries to force any difficult legislation into law during the first two years of his presidency.
Suleiman had said he would not seek the presidency in the first election for the post since the revolution that led to Mubarak's exit.
Having controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his Presidency, Obama could have passed any piece of legislation he wanted.
The main work of finding a compromise in all this will bear on Germany, which holds the Union's presidency during the first half of 1999.
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