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Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
The 25th Amendment has been formally used multiple times since its 1967 ratification: Section 2 (to fill a vice‑presidential vacancy) was used twice in 1973–74 when Nixon and then Ford nominated Geral...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used, but not in the way some headlines imply: its provisions have been invoked multiple times to fill vacancies and to temporarily transfer power when presidents w...
The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, sets procedures for presidential succession and for filling a vacant vice presidency; Congress passed it in 1965 and states ratified it by February 10, 1967 . It ...
The 1975 Senate change lowering cloture to 60 votes is portrayed in the documents as a driven by multiple senators rather than a single architect. Contemporary accounts and later summaries credit a co...
The 25th Amendment has four sections: Section 1 makes the vice president the president if the president dies, resigns or is removed (e.g., Ford succeeded Nixon) . Section 2 requires the president to n...
The phrase "Rockefeller rules" is best read as shorthand for the set of business practices, family governance habits, and philanthropic strategies that defined the Rockefeller dynasty's rise and persi...
The only fully documented, formal uses of the 25th Amendment in U.S. history were the procedural appointments that filled vacant vice presidencies in 1973 and 1974 after Spiro Agnew’s resignation and ...
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
has been used in three distinct ways since ratification: to clarify succession when a president leaves office, to fill vice‑presidential vacancies, and to allow temporary transfer of power when a pres...
The 25th Amendment clarified presidential succession and incapacity after Kennedy’s assassination, creating four operative sections that have been used routinely to fill vacancies and temporarily tran...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been formally invoked in several distinct ways since its ratification in 1967: its temporary-transfer clause (Section 3) has been used three times, its vacancy-filling c...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment codifies how the United States fills presidential and vice‑presidential vacancies and how presidential inability is managed, providing four sections that collectively govern...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used several times since ratification in 1967, primarily to fill vice‑presidential vacancies and to allow presidents to temporarily transfer power under Section 3; ...
The 25th Amendment provides a legal framework for replacing a president who dies, resigns, or is incapacitated and for filling a vacant vice presidency, and it has been used repeatedly to clarify succ...
The Constitution delegates initial authority on succession to Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 and the Presidential Succession Act, while the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment (ratified 1967) now supplies the pri...
The available record shows that Section 4 of the 25th Amendment — the provision allowing the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or another body Congress may establish) to declare a presiden...