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 )

He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, Richard Nixon.

Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Washington 1957

* 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a " Kitchen Debate ".

Upon reaching Asunción during his 1958 tour of Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon praised Stroessner's Paraguay for opposing communism more strongly than any other nation in the world.

In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Prior to this amendment, Vice President Richard Nixon informally replaced President Dwight Eisenhower for several weeks on each of three occasions when Eisenhower was ill.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

Richard Nixon is also the only non-sitting Vice President to be elected President, as well as the only person to be elected President and Vice President twice each.

Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969

Richard Nixon reinvented the office of Vice President.

Nixon was also the first Vice President to assume temporary control of the executive branch, which he did after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on September 24, 1955, ileitis in June 1956, and a stroke in November 1957.

* 1968 – U. S. President Richard M. Nixon was elected defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in November.

* August 9 – Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford succeeds Richard Milhous Nixon as the 38th President of the United States of America.

* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.

** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.

* July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage ine the " Kitchen Debate ".

* December 7 – A visit to Iran by American Vice President Richard Nixon sparks several days of riots.

* April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “ putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support .”

In 1969 President Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

Vice President Gustavo Noboa took charge by vice-presidential decree ; Mahuad went on national television in the morning to endorse Noboa as his successor.

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 ).

In August Vice President al Baydh exiled himself voluntarily to Aden, and the country ’ s general security situation deteriorated as political rivals settled scores and tribal elements took advantage of the widespread unrest.

* 1961 – Newly elected President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1961 ; Kennedy established the Peace Corps.

* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey took office in January.

During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".

His son, Vice Admiral Lloyd Mustin ,( 1911 – 1999 ), a 1932 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, took part in developing the Navy's first lead-computing anti-aircraft gun sight, which proved of major importance in the air-sea actions of World War II, and served on the cruiser during the naval battle of Guadalcanal.

In May 2012 the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Funes took over as President June 1, 2009 together with Salvador Sanchez Ceren as Vice President.

" ( In 1988, Lloyd Bentsen, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of " Lyndon's law ," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis ' loss to George H. W. Bush.

Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoke of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President, Johnson took a much softer line, pardoning many Confederate leaders and former Confederates.

Under Nehru, who was styled the " Vice President of the Viceroy's Executive Council ," Patel took charge of the departments of home affairs and information and broadcasting.

Mulroney took the job of Executive Vice President of the Iron Ore Company of Canada, a joint subsidiary of three major U. S. steel corporations.

After the war, he failed to recover these massive loans, despite endless litigation, which took a toll on his health, and induced the alcoholism that affected his performance as Vice President.

In 1980 he took the job as Vice President of LTV Aerospace.

It is widely believed that Abbeville, Georgia was settled by French Huguenots and that it was home to Vice President John C. Calhoun, but it was neither ; these events took place in Abbeville, South Carolina.

It was here that the first Adlai E. Stevenson I ( 1835 – 1914 ), who held many important government positions and would become the 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897, courted Scott's sister-in-law, Letitia Green ; their wedding took place in this house in 1866.

The most famous was that between General Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, and Colonel Aaron Burr, sitting third Vice President of the United States, which took place on July 11, 1804.

In November 1950, the base took its current name in memory of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Muir S. Fairchild, a native of Bellingham, Washington.

De Ruyter took in the red flag and broke through the enemy line with Vice Admiral Johan de Liefde, while the rest of the Dutch fleet under Aert van Nes headed south.

For instance: former U. S. Vice President Al Gore, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN ( March 9, 1999 ) stated, " During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

* U. S. Vice President Al Gore ( Darrell Hammond took over once Ferrell started playing Bush ),