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US Vice Presidents
The Vice President of the United States is second on line for presidency. In case of a presidential death, resignation, or dismissal, the Vice President would become president. He also has other duties, as laid out by the Constitution.
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What Democrat presidents served in the 20th century?
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton
282 if you count each once
Who is The President of England 2010?
Great Britain does not have a president. The United Kingdom uses a parliamentary form of government, in which the Parliament holds powers much like those of the executive and legislative branches of the US government.
As of August 2010, the prime minister of the UK is David Cameron.
Who is the vice president of Tanzania?
Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda is the Prime Minister of Tanzania.
Pinda became the 11th Prime Minister of Tanzania in 2008 February 9, appointed by President Jakaya Kikwete. He also has a law degree from the University of Dar es Salaam.
What was the reason that Aaron burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a dual?
Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel primarily due to a longstanding personal and political rivalry. The immediate catalyst was Hamilton's derogatory remarks about Burr during the 1804 election campaign for governor of New York, which Burr found deeply insulting. Feeling that his honor was at stake, Burr sought to defend it through the duel, which ultimately resulted in Hamilton's death.
The negotiator of a plan to reschedule German reparations payments was Charles G. Dawes. He served as Calvin Coolidge's vice president after 1925, holding the position until 1929. The Dawes Plan, formulated in 1924, aimed to ease the financial burden on Germany following World War I by restructuring its reparations payments.
What Vice President of Andrew Jackson became his bitter enemy?
Andrew Jacksons rivals were the Whigs.
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What were Richard Nixon's political views?
Nixon said that most of his views were the same as those from Kennedy. Only the means by which they should be realized were different.
An important difference was that Nixon wanted a strong America. Not to fight wars, but to have a good position to negotiate from.
So he succeeded years later with China and the Sovjet Union. But not with Vietnam, because they did not want to negotiate at all.
What are aaron burr's most important achievements?
Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, is best known for his pivotal role in early American politics and his duel with Alexander Hamilton, which resulted in Hamilton's death. He was also a significant figure in the founding of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, and played a crucial role in the establishment of the New York City street grid system. Burr's controversial legacy includes his efforts to expand the United States westward and his involvement in a purported conspiracy to create an independent nation in the Southwest, which ultimately led to his trial for treason.
Who was Abraham Lincoln's assistant?
Lincoln did not have anyone whose job title was "personal assistant". He did have two secretaries, both named John - John G. Nicolay and John Hay. They lived in the White House and shared a room beside the family quarters. They had one room for an office, and their bedroom was off of that room. Presidents did not have large staffs like they do today, and these two handled all of Lincoln's correspondence, kept up with his papers, kept files of newspapers clippings cut from papers from all over the country, attended cabinet meetings to keep notes of what was said, and were generally very helpful. Since the president was given no budget money to pay for any staff assistants, they both held a clerk's job in some other department of the government, but that was just on paper. Both were young, unmarried men in their 20s. Nicolay was somewhat older, and had come to America as a child, and still had a slight accent. Hay was a recent college graduate, hired on the recommendation of a lawyer who knew him and who had the law office next door to Lincoln's in Springfield, Illinois. Both were hired after the election, but before Lincoln went to Washington and was sworn in. Thus these two were present from the very beginning of the Lincoln Administration and privy to all that went on during those tumultuous years, though Hay left after Lincoln was reelected in 1864. Hay and Nicolay collaborated on one of the best biographies of Lincoln, a huge effort in ten volumes, which still must be consulted by anyone wanting to write a serious book about Lincoln in the Civil War years to this day. Hay went on to be the Secretary of State during the McKinley Administration, and is perhaps best remembered today for saying that the Spanish-American War of 1898 was "a splendid little war". When Lincoln had trouble sleeping, what with the pressing problems of the war and his disturbing dreams, he would often drop in to the bedroom his two secretaries shared, and talk with them in the middle of the night, his long legs sticking out the bottom of his nightshirt. Johnny Hay seems to have been somewhat sweet on Kate Chase, the older daughter of Lincoln's rival and the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase. Chase's wife had recently died and Kate served as his hostess in the endless round of parties and dinners that go on in Washington. She was the prettiest girl in Washington, and had a brilliant mind. (In Richmond there were a half dozen girls who were "the belle of the Confederacy", but in Washington there was no one to rival Kate Chase). When Salmon P. Chase decided to try to challenge the president of his own party in the election of 1864 and run against Lincoln in the primaries, Kate, who loved her father, made a loveless marriage with a bizarre but incredibly wealthy man from Rhode Island, Sprague, who had basically bought himself a seat in the US Senate in 1864, in order to gain access to Sprague's money for her daddy's presidential campiagn. That came to nothing because scandals were about to develop over revelations that Chase had signed permits for Sprague to trade with the enemy, to obtain cotton from the south to feed his Rhode Island textile mills. This allowed Lincoln to rid himself of Chase, by making Chase Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, after old Roger B. Taney finally died in 1864. But by then it was too late for Kate Chase and Johnny Hay; Kate was stuck with the alcoholic, abusive Sprague. Kate had a notorious affair with New York politician Roscoe Conkling in the 1870s, after which Sprague divorced her, and she died at a relatively young age, in poverty, around the time her old beau Johnny Hay was at the heights of Washington power.
Hubert Humphrey lost the 1968 presidential election primarily due to the deep divisions within the Democratic Party over the Vietnam War, which alienated many voters. His association with the Johnson administration's policies, particularly the war, hurt his appeal, especially among anti-war activists. Additionally, the rise of third-party candidate George Wallace and the appeal of Republican Richard Nixon, who promised law and order, further contributed to his defeat. The tumultuous political climate and protests during that era also played significant roles in shaping public sentiment against Humphrey.
Who was the vice president under James Madison's?
He had two. George Clinton was VP during his first term, dying in office in April 1812. He was the first VP to die in office and one of only two to serve as VP to two different Presidents, as he had also been VP during Jefferson's second term. Madison' second VP was Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who also died in office in November 1814, making Madison the only President to have both his VP's fail to finish their terms. Gerry is also remembered for a salamander-shaped legislative district which he drew earlier in his career, giving rise to the term "gerrymander" (though he did not invent the practice itself, which was far older).
George Clinton: 1809-1812
Elbridge Gerry: 1813-1814
James Madison was the only president to have two vice presidents that both died while in office.
Who was the president in 1941 to 1984?
The American president in 1941 was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was re-elected, but only served until 1945, when he died suddenly. His vice president, Harry Truman finished out FDR's term and then won re-election. The next president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was elected in 1952 and served two terms. Then, in 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected, but sadly, he was assassinated in 1963, so his vice president Lyndon B. Johnson became president. In 1968, the new president was Richard M. Nixon. Nixon resigned in 1974 because of the Watergate Scandal; his vice president Gerald R. Ford became president. Next came Jimmy Carter, who won the 1976 election and served one term, before he was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980. Reagan was still president in 1984.
