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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's dilemma is the VP can't be fired. The Cabinet serves at the
pleasure of the POTUS but the VP has a priority job to check on the health of POTUS and go hang out in the Senate.
So will he quit or make the convention pick his VP?????
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Trump's dilemma is the VP can't be fired. The Cabinet serves at the (Original Post)
CK_John
Jun 2016
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Skink
(10,122 posts)1. FDR went through em
CK_John
(10,005 posts)2. Don't understand.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. FDR had three VPs
John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, and of course, Harry S Truman. One wonders what postwar America would have been like if FDR and the Dem convention had not dumped the progressive Wallace in favor of Truman.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)3. He could either ask the VP to resign and then
Select someone else, if he wanted to, or he could just lock the VP out.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)4. If elected and sworn in the VP would have to be impeached to get him out of office.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)5. The VP could resign. Remember that Spiro Agnew
did exactly that in 1973. Nixon then appointed Gerald Ford who was confirmed by Congress. For several months there was no VP.