This\u00a0is a good time\u00a0to test your knowledge of the vice presidency, which is receiving so much attention in the election campaign.<\/p>\n
Our quiz will begin with a question everyone should he able to answer.<\/p>\n
Q. What is unique about the 1984 vice presidential race?<\/p>\n
A. For the first time in history, a woman (Geraldine Ferraro) is the nominee of a major\u00a0political party (Democratic).<\/p>\n
Q. How many vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency!<\/p>\n
A. Nine. John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, at the death of the president; and Gerald R. Ford after the resignation of President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n
Q. What four vice presidents, having served out terms of chiefs executives removed by death, were elected to presidential terms\u00a0of their own?<\/p>\n
A. Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson.<\/p>\n
Q. What is the vice president’s salary?<\/p>\n
A. Originally it was $5,000. It was raised to $8,000 in 1853; $10,000, 1873; $12,000, 1907; $15,000, 1925; $20,000. 1946; $30,000, 1949; $43,000, 1963; $62,500, 1969; $65,000, 1975; $68,000, 1976; $75,000, 1977; $79,125, 1979, and $94,200, 1984.<\/p>\n
Q. How is a vacancy in the office of the vice presidency filled?<\/p>\n
A. The president nominates a vice president who takes the oath of office upon confirmation by the majority vote of both houses of Congress (25th Amendment).<\/p>\n
Q. What vice president, appointed under 25th Amendment procedures, succeeded to the presidency without being elected to either office?<\/p>\n
A. Gerald R. Ford.<\/p>\n
Q. How\u00a0many vice presidents have resigned?<\/p>\n
A. Two. John C. Calhoun resigned Dec, 28, 1832 to become a South Carolina senator. Spiro T. Agnew resigned Oct. 10, 1973. He pleaded no contest in U.S. District Court to a charge of evading income taxes in 1967.<\/p>\n
Q. What three Johnsons have served as vice presidents?<\/p>\n
A. Richard under President Martin Van Buren, Andrew under Abraham Lincoln, and Lyndon B. under John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Q. If by death, resignation, remove from office, failure to qualify, or any other reason there is neither a president nor vice president to discharge the duties of president, who would succeed to the office?<\/p>\n
A. Here is the line of succession fixed by law, last amended in 1979: Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of the Senate, then other U.S. officers in this order, assuming they qualify – Secretaries of state, treasury, defense,\u00a0attorney\u00a0general, secretaries of interior, agriculture, commerce, labor, health and human services, housing and urban development, transportation, energy\u00a0and education.<\/p>\n
Q. The Constitution makes the V.P. president\u00a0of the Senate. Does he actually preside over Senate meetings as regular practice?<\/p>\n
A. He did initially. Today the Senate elects a president pro tempore who presides\u00a0in the vice\u00a0president’s absence.<\/p>\n
Q. Where was Vice President\u00a0Coolidge sworn in when he succeeded to the presidency at the death of Warren G. Harding?<\/p>\n
A. At his father’s home in Plymouth, Vt. The oath was administered by his father Colonel John Coolidge. After validity of the oath was questioned, the new president was sworn in a second time in Washington, D.C. before assuming the duties.<\/p>\n
Q. What vice president was a Democrat elected on a Republican ticket?<\/p>\n
A. Andrew Johnson,\u00a0who became president\u00a0when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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