Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Busted By The Constitution Cops!

My brother and son both pointed out to me that Nancy Pelosi would not assume the VP mantle if Cheney died or was incapacitated. Sigh.... My son reminded me of the Nixon VP thing where he appointed Ford after Agnew got into some serious trouble with the law. I should have remembered that because Ford died recently and there was a lot written about the fact that he was the only U.S. president never elected to office.

Oh well, you can't be right all the time. I stand corrected.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You weren't completely wrong. For the time period that we are without a VP, the Speaker is treated as one.

I was in DC when Agnew resigned (to go to prison?). Speaker Carl Albert, who was a very small man in size, was seen being protected by beefy security types because he was the next in line (until Nixon picked Ford, the minority leader of the House, to be VP).