Doris Kearns Goodwin just said on MTP that “Nearly 1 out of 3 vice presidents have actually become president, mostly because of the death or assassination or the resignation of a president.”
Huh?
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John Tyler succeeded WH Harrison, who died in office
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Fillmore succeeded Zachary Taylor, who died in office
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Andrew Johnson succeeded the assassinated Lincoln
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Chester A Arthur succeeeded Garfield, who died in office
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McKinley was assassinated and succeeded by TR
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Silent Cal Coolidge succeeded Harding
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Truman succeeded FDR, who passed in office
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Johnson succeeded JFK, who was assassinated
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Ford succeeded Nixon, who resigned
So, Doris Kearns Goodwin, that exceptional presidential scholar and master of the obvious makes a statement that VP’s succeed presidents on the heels of their death, assassination (isn’t this death?), or resignation, then she demonstrates why she wasn’t a math major by inflating the number of VP’s who have succeeded Presidents for those causes, it’s less than 1 in 4, not nearly 1 in 3.
She’s another Democratic partisan hack and always has been.
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