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Vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973
Several past U.S. presidents and high-level officials have faced serious legal exposures—including impeachment, criminal investigations, pleas, and convictions of associates—but , making his convictio...
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 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 25th Amendment has been used in U.S. history both to fill vice presidential vacancies and to temporarily transfer presidential power, most notably in the 1970s and across several administrations s...
A former two-term president can be nominated and confirmed as vice president under the 25th Amendment because the Amendment’s text allows the president to nominate a vice president to fill a vacancy w...
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 ...
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...
No vice president of the United States has ever been impeached by the House of Representatives, though the Constitution explicitly makes the vice president removable by impeachment for “treason, bribe...