He eventually circled back to his announced topic: "What the reciprocal organization of the cerebral hemispheres could tell us about some problems in philosophy".
He had lost in a washout, but he had made a name for himself and a small amount of money: his announced payday was eight thousand dollars.
He launched his campaign and his announced his running mate at the Illinois State Capitol, site of Lincoln's famous "house divided" speech.
Leonard Slatkin, longtime director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was named music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; his announced successor at the National Symphony was Ivan Fischer.
If true to his announced schedule, he will shift to clay for Davis Cup, then back to hardcourts for the autumnal Asian swing in Beijing and Shanghai.
The latest Gallup poll found that 58 percent of the country favors his announced timeline, with its promise to start withdrawing troops in mid-2011.
He never married and was angry at those who called his announced, but later called-off, engagement to an American millionairess in 1987 a publicity stunt.
Further, he has outraged the far-right parties in his governing coalition with his announced intention to withdraw without a peace agreement from some of the territory that Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.
Despite his announced intention to retire soon, he maintains considerable political influence and has been a master throughout his career of using parliamentary rules to kill legislation he dislikes.
It ignited a political storm around him just as he was seeking American agreement to his announced plan to withdraw soldiers and settlers unilaterally from most or all of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
Conflicts with his superiors and members of his congregation, including a rift in 1977 over his announced intention to divorce his first wife, Margaret, cost him his church post, as well as his position as dean of the Mercer School of Theology in Garden City, the seminary of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.
