Presidency
Ahmed became President of Bangladesh in 2002 after becoming the only candidate to register for presidential elections.
Mentionable, during his presidency two important research books namely Hundred Years of Bangabhaban and Bangabhabaner Shatabarsha were published by Bangabhaban with his supervision under initiative of Adviser Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, which was acclaimed worldwide for neutrality, integrity and professionalism unlike in Bangladeshi society.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidency:
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)