Cracker Barrel offered to nominate two independent director candidates to its board chosen by Biglari Holdings as long as those two people were not affiliated with any restaurant company.
Mr. Rove's third intervention came last year when the state's chief justice retired and Gov. Rick Perry privately offered to nominate Justice Owen to the post, senior Texas Republicans said in interviews.
Davis had offered to nominate Eichelberger for a place at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
The outgoing president, Fillmore, offered to nominate Benjamin, a fellow Whig, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy after the Senate Democrats had defeated Fillmore's other nominees for the post.
The way is open for ordinary citizens to reject the options that our dysfunctional party system offers and go online to nominate the people who we think are most qualified to be president and vice president.
The next year, 1876, he declined an offer to be nominated for the Board of Overseers at Harvard "for reasons very conclusive to my own mind".
To be sure, he is getting an assist from Gannett itself, which announced its offer after the deadline to nominate directors to Tronc's board, removing any leverage it could have had to force Tronc to negotiate.
Last week, it won enough support from shareholders that Microsoft offered it the right to nominate a member of its board.
Other universities offer awards that allow schools to nominate a student who has the potential to succeed but may not have achieved the necessary cut offs.
