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First -- we've had a number of successions -- LBJ vs JFK -- in what was a planned coup --
Truman dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki --
And a near succession of Bush 1 vs Reagan . . . tho Reagan survived.
Being VP makes candidates more viable--?? Nixon was disappointed; rejected for JFK. But Bush 1 made it.
And, Cheney has used the VP office to act as president, it seems --
Nixon's Agnew, of course, resigned -- guilty of graft -- to make way for an unelected Ford Vice Presidency and shortly thereafter, an unelected Ford presidency.
Personally, I think we'd be better off ridding ourselves of the VP office -- and simply letting the Majority leader in Senate take over until there are new elections. One month would be sufficient, I think.
Otherwise, let's ELECT the VP -- with separate campaigns for VP -- and not let the candidates pick their running mates.
I think within the VP has lain a lot of mischief --
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