The president who turned things around for the automobile was William Howard Taft, whose term was 1909-13.
Pérez Molina, whose term was scheduled to end in January 2016, was constitutionally prohibited from running again.
The request then came from a Republican president, with strong free-market credentials, whose term was nearly over.
Last week, Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose term was to end in July, pulled the bureaucratic equivalent of a "dead hand" maneuver.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) said in a statement on Friday that Pilgrim – whose term was due to expire on Monday – had been reappointed for three months.
Warren Harding, whose term was 1921-23, was the first actual driver in the White House, and the first to take the oath after a parade in an automobile, a Packard Twin Six.
Opponents of Hezbollah wanted to discuss disarming Hezbollah's militia, and replacing the pro-Syrian president, Émile Lahoud, whose term was extended by Damascus.
In a partisan confrontation last week, the Senate Commerce Committee rejected the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall, President Bush's choice to replace Ms. Brown, whose term was set to expire in 2006.
Prosecutors almost always provide clear direction to grand jurors, but Hallinan essentially left the decision about whom to indict in the hands of the jurors themselves, whose term was scheduled to end on the last day of February, 2003.
