Wirtz Dam Granite Shoals until 1965 when it was renamed for another advocate of the LCRA, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Witz Dam and Lake LBJ are located due west of Lake Marble Falls and the city of Marble Falls, Texas. Wirtz Dam Wirtz Dam (formerly Granite Shoals Dam) was constructed from 1949 to 1951 to provide hydroelectric power and to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (formerly Lake Granite Shoals), one of the Texas Highland Lakes. Lake LBJ ‒ as it is more commonly referred to ‒ provides cooling water for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant along
President Israel, Italy, Malta, Pakistan, Singapore. A variation of the parliamentary republic is a system with an executive president in which the president is the head of state and the government but unlike a presidential system, is elected by and accountable to a parliament, and referred to as president. Countries using this system include Botswana, South Africa and Suriname. Only a tiny minority of modern republics do not have a single head of state. Some examples of this are: In dictatorships, the title of president is frequently taken by self-appointed or military-backed leaders. Such is the case in many states: Idi