The Ascent of Gerald Ford

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Source: face2face.si.edu --- Friday, August 09, 2013
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. / David Hume Kennerly / Color photograph on paper, 1974 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine, ? David Hume Kennerly AMENDMENT XXV Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified February 10, 1967. Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. (affecting Article II, section 1 of the Constitution) ***** The first time a vice president of the United States took the oath of office upon the death of a president was in 1841. John Tyler became president after William Henry Harrison decided to give his inaugural address in the cold and rain without proper attire for the weather. Harrison suffered a short illness and died one month after becoming president. Tyler was rebuked during his term and given the pejorative nickname, ?his accidency.? Tyler?s ascendency to the presidency was the first of nine times in our nation?s history that the vice president was called on to assume the chief executive duties. Four vice presidents have been elevated to the presidency because of the natural death of the president?John Tyler (Harrison), Millard Fillmore (Zachary Taylor), Warren Harding (Woodrow ...

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