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Definition of Presidency
Presidency

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.

The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.

One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.

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Presidency Quotations

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
Moo-hyum Roh


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