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John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.
South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.
Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.
`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.
Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.
Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.
A half hour later the Vice President arrived.
The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.
The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.
Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.
In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.
A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.
Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.
* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )
* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

Vice and advised
From 1998 to 2005, he was Vice President of Corporate Affairs for AEC-International in Toronto and through the International Property Tax Institute, the Lincoln Institute on Land Policy, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, he advised governments in the developing world and in countries in transition in Eastern Europe on property assessment and tax policy.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times, however, advised people to “ stay home and watch Miami Vice or Cagney and Lacey ” instead.
In the filing, Fitzgerald states: It was during a conversation concerning Mr. Pincus ’ inquiries that the Vice President advised the defendant that Mr. Wilson ’ s wife worked at the CIA.
: The Vice President advised that it was conceivable that he may have had discussions about Joe Wilson during the week of 7 / 6 / 03 because the Tenet statement covered the bulk of the Wilson matter, namely that the CIA had dispatched Wilson to Niger on its own without direction from the Vice President ; Wilson's report had confirmed there had been an approach by Iraq to Niger at one time ; and the results of Wilson's trip were not briefed to the Vice President.
: Vice President Cheney advised that no one ever told him that Wilson went to Niger because of his wife's CIA status and, in fact, the Vice President does not have any idea to this day why Joseph Wilson was selected to go to Niger.
Libby " further testified that he at first advised the Vice President that he could not have this conversation with reporter Miller because of the classified nature of the NIE ", but testified " that the Vice President had advised that the President had authorized to disclose relevant portions of the NIE.

Vice and there
Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment replaced that provision of the Twelfth Amendment by changing the date for the commencement of Presidential terms to January 20, clarifying that the Vice President-elect would only act as President if the House has not chosen a President by January 20, and permitting the Congress to direct, through legislation, " who shall then act as President " if there is no President-elect or Vice President-elect by January 20.
However, there is no similar such limitation as to how many times one can be elected Vice President.
While the Twenty-Second Amendment generally restricts the President to two terms, there is no similar limitation on the office of Vice President, meaning an eligible person could hold the office as long as voters continued to vote for electors who in turn would renew the Vice President's tenure.
Thomas R. Marshall, the 28th Vice President, lamented: " Once there were two brothers.
According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.
Doubts at Purdue University's Nuclear Engineering faculty as to whether the positive results reported from sonofusion experiments conducted there were truthful prompted the university to initiate a review of the research, conducted by Purdue's Office of the Vice President for Research.
In the draft version of the Constitution, there was no Vice President, and the President of the Senate was to be the immediate successor to the President.
When there are several vice presidents in a company they are sometimes ranked by naming the highest-ranking Senior Executive Vice President which is next to President, the second highest-ranking Executive Vice President, then Senior Vice President and the remainder of the management team just VP.
In large brokerage firms and investment banks, there are usually several Vice Presidents in each local branch office, the title being more of a marketing approach for customers, than denoting an actual managerial position within the company.
While the 1792 act was never implemented, there were ten instances when the Vice Presidency was vacant.
As with the 1792 act, the act of 1886 was never implemented during its 61 years, but there were five instances where the Vice Presidency was vacant.
::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
* During the first two years of this act being in effect there was no Vice President, because Harry S. Truman had become President upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945.
* Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President and so there was no Vice President for fourteen months.
The following people have been next in line for the powers and duties of the Presidency of the United States ( i. e., to become Acting President, in the event of the death, resignation, or removal of the President ) when there was no Vice President of the United States:
PETA supports hearing dog programs where animals are taken from shelters and placed in appropriate homes, but does not endorse seeing-eye-dog programs because, according to one of their Vice Presidents, " the dogs are bred as if there are no equally intelligent dogs literally dying for homes in shelters.
For example, there was no Vice President for nearly four years after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Under Section 2, whenever there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, the President nominates a successor who becomes Vice President if confirmed by a majority vote of both Houses of the Congress.
It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.
The expression was used at least once, though, by Vice President Dick Cheney, in a June 2003 speech in which he said, " If there is anyone in the world today who doubts the seriousness of the Bush Doctrine, I would urge that person to consider the fate of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

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