31.   Sources said his successor is expected to assume the presidency by September.

32.   The search was abandoned about a year ago, after two candidates withdrew, one to assume the presidency of Grinnell College in Iowa.

33.   Thirty-two years later, when Bill Clinton assumed the presidency, it was a different story.

34.   Until assuming the presidency, Truman lived modestly in an unguarded apartment house.

35.   When Frederick Peters assumed the co-op board presidency at the White House, a grand old apartment building, he immediately found himself in the hot seat.

36.   When he assumed the presidency in November, Wahid inherited a bureaucracy that had been gutted by Suharto, who had the first and last word in government matters.

37.   When Johnson assumed the presidency, there were several Kennedy-introduced projects awaiting action in a Congress that showed little inclination to pass them.

38.   Paz Zamora and members of his family are also accused of maintaining close personal ties with Chavarria prior to and after assuming the presidency.

39.   After the invasion, Endara assumed the presidency.

40.   Armed forces chief Gen. Paco Moncayo stood at her side Sunday when she assumed the presidency.