He needs to do his job right too, and if the president dies or cannot fulfill his duties then the vice president takes over and needs to be president.
No, the President's Oath is written in the Constitution. The Vice President's Oath is the same oath that members of Congress take and was not written in the Constitution, but the Constitution does require that the VP be bound by an Oath.
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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administers the oath to the President. There is no designated person to swear in the vice-president, however. That is up to the Vice President elect.
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will be sworn in prior to President-elect Obama.
John Tyler was the first person to take office after a president died.
Joe Biden has never been president, not for one second. At the time he was sworn in as Vice President, Dick Cheney ceased to be Vice President, but Bush was still President. Of course that only matters if you take into account the time of oath-taking. The law does not. The time of oath taking is unrelated to the time of accepting office. According to the constitution, at the stroke of 12:00, Obama became president, oath or no oath.
i guess in mrs. collins' class lol
The new president and vice-president begin their terms on this day and take the oath for their offices. The chief justice of the US administers the oaths. What other people are involved depends on the year and the President and the planners of the event.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting family in Vermont when President Warren Harding died. The oath of office was administered to the new President by his father who was a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took over the Presidency after the assassination of William McKinley in September, 1901.
The Oath of Office - Vice President-elect Jo Biden, Jr.administered by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens