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Vice Presidents
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Experience: Jimmy Carter 
 Biographical material, timeline, and image gallery for the life and career of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. People and Events highlights information about other significant people, such as First Lady Rosalynn Carter, brother Billy Carter, and Vice President Walter Mondale, and about key events such as the Camp David peace talks and the Iranian hostage crisis. Includes several speeches, a teacher's guide, and more. Companion to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "American Experience" program of same title (includes transcript). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/ Topics: Notable People: Government, The United States Presidency Last updated Oct 11, 2004 Commission on Presidential Debates
Find history about U.S. presidential and vice-presidential debates, debate transcripts from 1960 to present, video reenactments of historical debates, news, and more. Includes tips for hosting a Debatewatch, which "brings citizens like you together to watch the televised debates." From an organization that has sponsored Presidential debates since 1988. http://www.debates.org Topics: Communications, Politics, The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 14, 2008 Presidents in Waiting
This exhibit focuses on the 14 U.S. vice presidents who became president though election, resignation of a president, or other means. Features essays about and images of the vice presidents who became presidents, and video interviews with four living vice presidents -- Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and Walter Mondale -- on what it is like to be a "president in waiting." From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/VicePres/ Topics: The United States Presidency Last updated May 13, 2009 Presidents Who Were Not Inaugurated
This site presents brief explanations for the five U.S. presidents who took the oath of office but were not inaugurated (and therefore did not give inaugural addresses): John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, and Gerald R. Ford. From the U.S. Senate's Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres12b.html Topics: The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 11, 2008 Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate)
Constitutional origins of and structural changes in the office and its duties, and biographies of all vice presidents. A note in Gerald Ford's entry explains "the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1967, allowing for the appointment and confirmation of a new vice president" if a vacancy should occur. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_President.htm Topics: The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 14, 2008 |
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