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Whose approval is required to override a presidential veto?
legislative branch
Final jeopardy question presidential names?
This was the final Jeopardy from Friday, Oct 30 2009 category, question and answer. PRESIDENTIAL NAMES He's the only president whose first & last names contain the same pair of double letters Millard Fillmore
How is the lame duck period shortened by the 20th Amendment?
A lame duck is an elected official whose tenure is about to end. The 20th Amendment shortened the lame duck period by moving the beginning of the new Congress to January 3 and the presidential inauguration to January 20.
How did California vote in the 1960 Presidential election?
The 1960 presidential election was the closest election in history. In the popular vote, John F. Kennedy won over Richard Nixon by only 118,550 out of 69 million votes. The electoral vote gave him a majority of 303 to 219, though.
What is the significance of the 2008 election?
It was the first election of a U.S. President whose ancestry is half European/ half African. It was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes since Jimmy Carter did in 1976, and it was the first time that a Democratic presidential candidate both received more than 50% of the nationwide popular votes and carried more than 50% of the states since Lyndon Johnson did in 1964. It was also the first U.S. presidential election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate.
