Vice president

Electoral College for President the House can pick the President and the House also has the power to impeach (throw out of office) any federal official. The senate also has its own powers. The senate has the power to confirm any Presidential…

vote for our nations chief executive, the president. During campaign season we hear a lot of talk about electoral college. What is electoral college? Well Its not a college at all, but a process. Its how americans elect a president and vice president every four years. Who came up with this process, none other than our founding fathers, the framers of the constitution. Under this system americans do not actually vote directly for a president and vice president, instead they select a group of…

Becoming my grade school's president was a way to show how responsible of a person I could become. Initially deciding to run, campaigning, writing a speech, speaking in front of my whole school, eventually becoming President and doing my part in school government, genuinely shaped me as a person. This may seem like an easy undertaking, but to me it was a major step in getting me out of my shell. First, let me explain the way my grade school ran elections. The election process was to have those…

In Recent news it has finally been reported that Joe Biden is running for president. However, in other recent news it is said he isn't running for president. In this article, Dana Milbank implies that nobody honestly knows what vice president, Joe Biden, is going to do. It is said from his close friends that he will but other friends say he will not run. Some visitors say "Yes he will" others say "No won't". It is both answers but at the same time not. Biden has delayed this decision for quite…

Gerald Ford was the only United States President and Vice President to never officially be elected. Some might ask how is it possible to become both without getting elected. The answer is simple, it happened because of the resignation of the current President and Vice President. This is the long journey of how Ford became the 38th President of the United States. He did not have the easiest time as a child, but was soon able to find his way. Gerald Ford 's presidency had an immense impact on the…

Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. Truman was the Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, when FDR died Truman became president in 1945. He was only FDR’s Vice President for a few months before he was elected. Truman’s first shining moment was when he had to meet with Joseph Stalin and Clement Attlee for the final wartime conference at Potsdam near Berlin. Originally, at the Yalta conference, the Soviets wanted to take reparations from Germany to…

When running for a second term as president in 1900, William McKinley was in need of a vice president. Republican Party bosses of New York eagerly nominated their governor for the position so that the state Republican political machine could be reserved and because vice president was seen as a dead end job. After McKinley was elected, the hope was that the former New York governor, Theodore Roosevelt, could no longer affect the state of New York, or the nation as a whole. Mr. Roosevelt was an…

Adams was favored by New England. The Mid-Atlantic states had well-organized parties. Adams won the electoral college vote with 71 and Jefferson had 69. It was set up in the Constitution that the runner up would be vice-president. After a very brutal campaign, John Adams became president in a very close race. Thomas Jefferson became…

This article from The New York Times describes Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States and the chain of events that led to his victory over other presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Early in the presidential campaign between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump the majority of the polls indicated that Hillary would secure the presidential title. However Hilary's inability to gain the country’s trust and her multiple email scandals vastly affected…

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America, he served from January 20,1969 to August 9, 1974 (Funk & Wagnalls). Nixon is widely regarded as one of the most controversial presidents in all of history, he is the only president in history to resign the office of the presidency (Barone). Amid the controversy the Nixon administration is notable for creating change in American political, military, and diplomatic history (Funk & Wagnalls). Nixon is almost universally…