Still the policy remained peculiarly an exercise in presidential diplomacy.
Meanwhile, more states, including Ohio, began the process of early voting in the presidential election.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Obama depart a press conference at the presidential Blue House.
But many Nigerians still thirst for new presidential elections-and still quietly hope against hope that they will be held.
But it wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.
The CPAC meeting is, among other things, a beauty contest for presidential wannabes, and most of the most ambitious Republican leaders did indeed turn up to strut their stuff.
Russia's presidential contest stands in sharp contrast to America's hotly-contested presidential primaries.
Republican presidential contenders often go to great lengths to appeal to social conservatives as a first step toward winning the party's presidential nomination.
But they and others are also said to harbour presidential ambitions of their own.
It also looks at Haiti's efforts to rebuild from last year's devastating earthquake as it holds a presidential election, and a new rivalry emerging between Mexico's monopolists.
Against that is an interesting argument that at least in the first round of the presidential election, the opinion polls represent public opinion more accurately than the results themselves.
Operating under the United States Patriot Act, as well as on the basis of a presidential directive adopted in2005 to target the funds of proliferators, officials from America's Treasury Department have been criss-crossing the globe to persuade governments and banks to curb their business with Iran.
This week, however, the countdown to the 2012 presidential election seemed to begin for real.
On February 2nd, echoing Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, he said he would not run in the presidential election, due in 2013.
So thin is the ideological divide, for example, that the two main rival presidential candidates could be the incumbent and his deputy.
Plus, his presidential limo is nicknamed "The Beast".
The results for the presidential vote go directly from the polling stations to Harare.
It will be a year of manoeuvring, manipulation and mischief in France, as politicians of all stripes gear up for the 2012 presidential election.
The presidential candidates went for each other in the papers
The job was agony for him, when he had to set foot on the sequoia, the presidential yacht.
Mr Baduel was once an ally of Hugo Chávez, the president, but became one of his most outspoken critics once Mr Chávez began a successful campaign to remove presidential term limits.
The presidential candidate who loses the election will return to Capitol Hill as a U.S. senator, but likely with a higher profile than before his White House campaign.
The Socialists are promising to reverse it if they win the presidential election next year.
He said she never supported any particular presidential candidate.
A further sign of the presidential trappings that will soon be part of his daily life was the motorcade.
Voting got off to a slow start in the uncontested presidential runoff poll in Zimbabwe in which President Robert Mugabe is seeking to entrench himself as president for an another five years.
Mr Putin, who has maintained a stony public silence on Mr Luzhkov's fate, still looks like he is considering a return to the Kremlin in 2012, when the next presidential election will be held.
