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Vice President Gerald Ford said, " While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete characterization from people's minds with a wave of the hand.
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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 )
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His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3 ).
* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35 ).
Turner was dropped as head of cable networks by CEO Gerald Levin but remained as Vice Chairman of Time Warner.
Tyler's precedent made it possible for Vice Presidents Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson to ascend to the presidency ( Gerald Ford took office after the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment ).
Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.
* August 9 – Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford succeeds Richard Milhous Nixon as the 38th President of the United States of America.
* November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92 – 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
* December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387 – 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ; he is sworn in the same day.
** U. S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
Nixon replaced him by appointing by then House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to the office of Vice President.
However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to the Vice Presidency in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Nixon was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pardon of Nixon, immunizing him from prosecution for any crimes he had " committed or may have committed or taken part in " as president.
* There was no Vice President during the two months in 1973 between Spiro Agnew's resignation as Vice President and Gerald Ford's confirmation as Vice President.
* In 1974, during the four-month period between Gerald Ford's succession to the Presidency and the confirmation of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.
Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996.
Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford
On October 12, 1973, following Spiro Agnew's resignation two days earlier, President Richard Nixon nominated Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan to succeed Agnew as Vice President.
President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, resulting in Vice President Gerald Ford succeeding to the office of President.
This made Gerald Ford the only person ever to be Vice President, and later President, without being elected to either office.
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The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.
Subsequently, on December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal invalidated the Noriega regime's annulment of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón.
Ford and Rockefeller are the only two people to have served as Vice President without having been elected to the office, and Ford remains the only person to have served as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office.
The second time was when Ford, after becoming President upon Nixon's resignation, chose Nelson Rockefeller ( originally Agnew's mentor in the moderate wing of the Republican Party ) to succeed him as Vice President.
Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.
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