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Skriven 2008-09-16 12:04:36 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 20903 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Things Change
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15 Sep 08 07:57, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RB> Roy Witt wrote to Bob Ackley on Sunday September 14 2008 at 13:02:

 RW>> The 25th amendment was ratified in 1973, just in time for Nixon to
 RW>> appoint a successor to Agnew. Had there been no provision for
 RW>> succession, it's possible Nixon would not have appointed a new vice
 RW>> president. His selection of Gerald Ford was approved by Congress
 RW>> about a year before Nixon resigned.

 RB> This is news to me, as I was under the impression there was no VP
 RB> after Agnew resigned under pressure.

Ford was selected as VP on October 12, 1973, two days after Agnew
resigned. The 25th amendment was proposed around July of 1965 and finally
ratified by the number of states required to make it an amendment to the
Constitution on February 10, 1967. Some 9 states ratified it after that
date.

 RB> The only order of succession I ever heard of, and that was prior to
 RB> 1966,
 RB> was:

 RB> President
 RB> Vice-President
 RB> Speaker of the House

That is how it's set up in the Constitution.

 RB> Whether that was based on a law or was only custom, I don't know.

 RB> In the case in Point, Ford was the Speaker of the House when Nixon
 RB> resigned, and since there was no VP, he was next in line for the
 RB> presidency. At least that was my understanding at the time.

That isn't correct. Ford was the Minority Leader in the Congress and he
was selected by Nixon as his VP on October 12, 1973. His VP nomination was
approved by Congress on November 27, 1973 by a 92-3 vote. On December 6,
1973, the House approved the nomination by a 387-35 vote and on the same
day Ford takes the oath as the 40th VP of the US in a joint session of
Congress.

If he had not been VP at Nixon's resignation, the Speaker of the House
would have been appointed VP and that would have meant a party change in
the WH. Nixon (thank God) saw to it that the Democrats didn't get their
hands on all three branches of government. This is why the Dems hate him
more than they hate him for Watergate. For which he was the scapegoat and
not the perpetrator.

                R\%/itt



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