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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He did the same in the first hours of his presidency at the end of last year.
Obama's pledge to tackle immigration during the first year of his presidency ran into stiff opposition from congressional Republicans.
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.
First, the Mitterrand presidency moved from doctrinaire socialism towards pragmatic agnosticism.
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.
Mr Clinton spent the first two years of his presidency trying and failing to guarantee all citizens medical insurance.
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.
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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For weeks, we knew that Obama would win the Democratic nomination to the presidency, the first African-American ever to be chosen by a major US party.
Suleiman had initially said he would not seek the presidency in the first election for the post since the revolution that led to the toppling of Mubarak.
For the first two years of his presidency, Obama has been attacked by critics like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for not being friendly enough to the business community.
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EU, the Belgians insist that they are just as keen as the Swedes, who made it a central theme of their presidency in the first half of this year.
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Michelle and I both have very fond memories of the extraordinary hospitality that was shown to us when we traveled to Denmark in the first two years of my presidency.
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Kaur at the first state dinner of my presidency.
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At first it seemed like my faith was well-placed: within the first few months of his presidency, Obama led the way on economic policy I believed in, from the stimulus package to bailing out the auto companies.
It is true that beginning in the late nineties during the first year of the Khatami presidency there was a period of a year or so when the optimistic could believe that the forces of moderation might make substantial progress in Iran.
Egypt's new leader made the first foreign visit of his presidency to Saudi Arabia in what is seen as an effort to renew an alliance and offer assurances about his aims as the most visible symbol of the rise of political Islam in the region.
Many of you were here when I was honored to become the first President to help celebrate Diwali -- the Festival of Lights. (Applause.) Some of you were here for the first White House celebration of the birth of the founder of Sikhism -- Guru Nanak. (Applause.) Tonight, we gather again, for the first state dinner of my presidency -- with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs.
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Democrats controlled 62 seats during the first two years of the Carter presidency.
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And, as successor to Germany, Finland will be the first small country to hold the presidency since the launch of the euro.
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