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?

• John Tyler succeeded WH Harrison, who died in office

• Fillmore succeeded Zachary Taylor, who died in office

• Andrew Johnson succeeded the assassinated Lincoln

• Chester A Arthur succeeeded Garfield, who died in office

• McKinley was assassinated and succeeded by TR

• Silent Cal Coolidge succeeded Harding

• Truman succeeded FDR, who passed in office

• Johnson succeeded JFK, who was assassinated

• 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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