The president of the United States as one of the most powerful positions in the world, every four years the UNITED States election has attracted much attention from the world, compared with the president of the scenery, the vice president of the United States is bleak, there is a sentence metaphor for the embarrassing position of the vice president of the United States, the vice president of the United States is like a spare tire in the trunk of the car, only the current president has an accident to have a chance to take office.
Adams, the first vice president in U.S. history and later the second president of the United States, wrote to his wife about the vice president position this way: "This is the least important position that people can think of since genesis."
The vice president's founding grandfather has said this, you can imagine how little the power of the vice president of the United States is, according to the ranking of U.S. government officials, the vice president is second only to the president, the second-ranked official, is a position above ten thousand people under one person, but why would Adams say this? Let's talk today about the Vice President of the United States.
The first vice president, Adams
<h1>01. How did the Vice President of the United States come about? </h1>
Like the president of the United States, the vice president is born through elections, except that this election is an intra-party election rather than a popular election, and the candidate for vice president is also nominated by the president, that is, the vice president is basically selected by the presidential candidate. In the quadrennial U.S. election, presidential candidates from both parties choose a vice president candidate who will help them win as a running mate according to their own needs.
This vice presidential candidate may not necessarily be his favorite person, and may even have been a competitive relationship, but this person must be someone who helps him run for president and can make up for his shortcomings, such as Obama's choice of Biden as his running mate in 2008, because Obama, as a young black man with little political experience, needs Biden as an experienced white elite politician to solicit votes for himself.
Obama
Therefore, the vice president of the United States is produced along with the US presidential election, and the presidential candidate of the partner advances and retreats. The current vice presidents of the United States are all made up of people in their own party, and in the early days of American history, the vice president of the United States was sometimes held by people from the other party, such as Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States who succeeded Republican President Lincoln, who served as Lincoln's running mate as a Democrat.
At that time, the united States was a prominent period of contradictions between the North and the South, Lincoln and Johnson's partnership was very effective, which was a very strategic deployment of the Lincoln campaign, and Johnson, as a Southerner and a Democrat, could help the federal government better win the hearts and minds of the South.
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that the president of the United States must take the oath when he takes office, the constitution does not stipulate the official oath of the vice president of the United States, so since Adams was elected as the first vice president, there have been many versions of the oath, which also shows that the US political circles do not attach importance to the vice president.
Lincoln
<h1>02. What are the powers of the Vice President of the United States? </h1>
Although they are all called presidents, the addition of a subtitle in front of them is very different. So what are the powers of the vice president of the United States?
According to the U.S. Constitution, the Vice President of the United States has the following powers.
1. Acting presidency
When the President is unable to exercise presidential authority for any reason, the Vice President may temporarily assume the power of the President until the time of the presidential interim election.
2. The president's first successor
The vice president of the United States can immediately turn to the current president when the following circumstances occur, including the death of the current president, voluntary resignation, and impeachment and removal. It's really a lot like a car spare tire, and for the vice president, there's always an opportunity, albeit a small probability.
3. Concurrently Serve as President of the Senate of the National Assembly
The U.S. regime is divided into three powers, with legislative power in the hands of the U.S. Congress, and the Senate is one of the two houses of the U.S. Congress, with the power to ratify treaties, to approve or reject the presidential nomination of ambassadors, supreme court judges, and other executive officers, and to try when the president and his subordinate officials are impeached.
Therefore, the power of the Senate is very large, and the seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives are also the focus of competition between Republicans and Democrats. The 100 senators in the Senate are all political elites in the states, and they have high powers, almost equivalent to the level of central committee members in our country.
United States Capitol
Since the Senate has a lot of power, does the vice president as speaker also have a lot of power? The U.S. Constitution also stipulates that the president of the Senate is not eligible for senators, that is, the vice president as the speaker is not eligible to vote, and can only cast a decisive vote if the number of votes is equal.
In addition to the powers set forth in the Constitution above, the vice president of the United States may have other duties, but this depends on the attitude of the current president. If the current president trusts the vice president enough, and the vice president is indeed superior in some way, then the president can allocate some of the power for the vice president to exercise, but there is no possibility of overstepping the line.
For example, during the George W. Bush administration, his vice president Cheney was hailed as the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, and was even known as Bush's behind-the-scenes boss. The reason for this was that president George W. Bush jr. at that time had little personal experience in politics, and Cheney had been in the US political arena for decades, and he was even more the secretary of defense during the administration of George W. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, so when handling domestic and foreign affairs, George W. Bush relied more on Cheney.
It is worth mentioning that the vice president was also responsible for the moderator of counting electoral votes during the election, and in 2001, the then vice president, the Democratic presidential candidate Gore, personally announced his defeat to George W. Bush.
In general, the vice president of the United States is a mascot-like position, having the opportunity to be president, but it takes a lot of luck, and there are a total of 9 vice presidents in the history of the United States.
<h1>03. 9 vice presidents in the history of the United States who have successfully ascended to the throne</h1>
Eight of the nine alternate vice presidents died because of the incumbent president and one because of the resignation of the incumbent president.
Number one: John Taylor.
Taylor was the tenth president of the United States, and it took him only a month to go from vice president to president.
In March 1841, at the inauguration of the ninth president of the United States, Harrison, the sky rained heavily, but the president Harrison refused to wear a hat and raincoat in order to wear X, and finally after more than an hour of his inaugural speech in the rain, he had a serious head injury, causing fatal pneumonia, and died a month later, and the then vice president Taylor became the first vice president in The history of the United States to ascend to the throne because of the death of the current president.
Second place: Millard Fillmore.
Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the United States, and his predecessor, zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, died of illness a year and four months after becoming president, and Fillmore took over as president, ending Taylor's unfinished presidency without success in re-election.
Fillmore was once ranked 10th worst U.S. president by the U.S. media, and the biggest highlight of his tenure was sending Rear Admiral Perry to lead the fleet to Japan, opening the door to Japan.
Third place: Andrew Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, has been named one of the worst presidents in American history by the American media, and his predecessor, Lincoln, is one of the greatest presidents in American history.
Johnson was originally a Democrat, and later became Lincoln's running mate before changing to the Republican Party, after Lincoln's assassination, Johnson became president, but he had a compromise position on the reconstruction of the South, so he was impeached by Republican members of Congress, becoming the first president in American history to be impeached.
The greatest achievement of his time in office was the acquisition of Alaska for the United States.
Fourth place: Chester Allen Arthur.
Arthur was the twenty-first president of the United States, and his predecessor, President James Garfield, was assassinated six months after his election.
The greatest credit of Arthur's tenure was the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act, which completely reformed the civilian system in the United States, followed by the formation of the U.S. Modern Navy, which is known as the father of the U.S. Navy.
Fifth place: Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States, and to distinguish himself from another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, the Theodore Roosevelt was called Roosevelt the Elder, while his distant nephew Franklin Roosevelt was known as Roosevelt Jr.
His predecessor, President William McKinley, was assassinated, and Roosevelt, then 42, became president, the youngest president in U.S. history.
Roosevelt was a radical president with a passion for reform, one of the greatest presidents in American history, and was once named the 15th of the 100 people who influenced the United States.
Old Roosevelt
Sixth place: Calvin Coolidge.
Calvin Coolidge was the thirtieth President of the United States, and his predecessor, Warren Harding, died of illness during the third year of the presidency, and Coolidge was replaced as president and successfully re-elected the following year.
As a politician, Coolidge is known for his taciturnity, but is the first president in American history to give an inaugural speech on the radio, and there is also the Coolidge effect that bears his name: the phenomenon of male animals having intercourse with a new spouse immediately after intercourse.
Seventh place: Harry S. S. Truman.
President Truman is well known Chinese, he is the thirty-third president of the United States, his predecessor is the famous President Franklin Roosevelt, the only president in the history of the United States to be re-elected for four consecutive terms.
On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died of illness during his fourth presidency, and Truman took over as president and was re-elected.
Truman's most famous achievement during his tenure was the introduction of the Truman Doctrine, which began a nearly half-century-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, followed by the implementation of the Marshall Plan.
There was also the korean war, which was defeated by the volunteer army, and in 1945, the atomic bombing order was issued against Japan.
Eighth place: Lyndon Baynes Johnson.
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Then Vice President Johnson became the thirty-sixth president of the United States.
Compared with his predecessor, Kennedy, Johnson is not so famous, he is a hard-liner on the outside, during his tenure to expand the Vietnam War, intervene in Dominica, the American evaluation of him is mixed, and even many conspiracy theorists believe that Kennedy's death may have some connection with Johnson.
Kennedy
Ninth place: Gerald Rudolf Ford.
Ford was the thirty-eighth president of the United States, and his predecessor, President Nixon, did not die unexpectedly, and Nixon voluntarily resigned.
Nixon's resignation was caused by the watergate scandal, the most disgraceful political scandal in American history, and Nixon's campaign was arrested in 1972 when he was seeking re-election for the second term in 1972 when he installed wiretaps and secretly photographed documents in the office of the rival Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Building.
After Nixon's resignation, Vice President Ford took over and pardoned Nixon's crimes, which was one of the reasons why Ford did not succeed in re-election, making him the first president since 1932 to lose his re-election campaign.
The governing philosophy of Ford's tenure was basically that of Xiao Zhicao, continuing Nixon's policies.
This is the 9 successful vice presidents in the history of the United States, as for whether there is a tenth, it depends on the physical condition of the current president, after all, the assassination of this kind of thing should be difficult to happen again.
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