Within months of this appointment Vance found himself at the centre of the escalating Vietnam conflict.
Some classrooms, in the converted exchange, had to be in use within six months of the appointment of the architects.
Rafael Benítez, and then the Brazilian Leonardo, were offered Mourinho's old team but were fired within months of their appointment.
He was a high-profile figure in banking and finance, and was one of a number of senior executives to leave Barclays' investment arm in 2013 within months of the appointment of Antony Jenkins.
Within a few months of her appointment, the chair of the trust, Rona Fairhead, indicated it was not fit for purpose and that its powers should be transferred to an external body dedicated to regulating the BBC.
His record - two cups within six months of his appointment, a domestic treble in his first full season, a second title in 2005 and reaching the last 16 of the Champions League - set the context for a rueful but masterfully understated parting comment: "I'm sure those people who look at the facts will say that during a period of downsizing, I was reasonably successful".
Within two months of his appointment the Central Bank gave Aeroflot its license exempting the airline from Russia's currency repatriation rules — rules that the prosecutor's office says Aeroflot may have been violating for more than a year.
Within five months of Innes' appointment, Horatio Sharpe relieved him of his command, and Innes stayed on at Fort Cumberland as its "campmaster general".
Toombs, who had wished to be president himself, was frustrated as an advisor and resigned within a few months of his appointment to join the army.
