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Qualifications of President and Vice President

Explore the qualifications, salary, perks, and historical aspects of the President and Vice President roles in the United States, including terms, election processes, succession laws, pertinent amendments, and notable events.

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Qualifications of President and Vice President

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  1. Qualifications of President and Vice President

  2. Presidential and Vice Presidential Qualifications Age: At least 35 Native Born Citizen Must have lived in the United States for 14 years.

  3. Salary • 2001 – raised to $400,000.00 plus a $50,000.00 expense account (any unused part of the expense account must be returned to the treasury) • Vice President - $221,100.00 + $10,000.00 • Retired Presidents get a yearly payment of $196,700(Executive Cabinet head salary) + up to $150,000.00 a year for staff and office.

  4. Retired Presidents • It's estimated that the minimum amount President Clinton's pension and staff will cost U.S. taxpayers if his life span is average is $6,072,000. • President George H. W. Bush declined his pension • President George W. Bush will be the first president with a 10-year Secret Service limit

  5. Presidential Salary • 1789 $ 25,000 • 1873 $ 50,000 • 1909 $ 75,000 • 1949 $100,000 ($50,000 budget added) • 1969 $200,000 • 2001 $400,000

  6. Presidential Perks • Free room and board • Camp David, Maryland Originally called Shangri-la by FDR Renamed Camp David by Ike • Medical care • Car and driver • Office and house staff • There is a tennis court, putting green, jogging track, swimming pool, movie theater billiard room and a bowling alley.

  7. JFK and his son John Nixon and Soviet President Brezhnev Ronald And Nancy Reagan FDR and Churchill

  8. Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms • George Washington established the precedent of 2 terms for a President. • “I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. “ • Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first and last President elected to four terms. • 22nd Amendment limits the President to two elected terms.(Can serve 10 years.)

  9. Election • Originally the members of the Electoral College voted for two candidates for President. • First became President and the second Vice President. • Election of 1800 took 36 rounds of voting in the House to elect Jefferson over Burr • 12th Amendment let them vote separately. • No Vice President has ever served more than 2 terms. FDR’s Vice Presidents were: John Nance Garner, Henry Agard Wallace, Harry Truman http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x94g4k?autoplay=1&wmode=opaque

  10. Presidential Succession Act of 1947 • Vice President • Speaker of the House • President Pro Tempore of the Senate • Secretary of State • Secretary of the Treasury • Secretary of Defense • Attorney General • Secretaries of departments in theorder they were created

  11. Twenty-fifth Amendment • 1967 • If President dies or leaves office the Vice President takes the office of President. • A new Vice President is chosen. • Both houses of Congress must approve. • Allows Vice President to become acting President if President is incapacitated.

  12. Ronald Reagan • March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, and two others were struck by gunfire • John Hinckley, Jr. -would-be assassin - who said he did it for actress Jodie Foster • President Reagan was shot in the chest and lost almost half of his blood • Operation took three hours – George H.W. Bush became acting President during this time. • ARCHIVAL VIDEO: Ronald Reagan Survives an Assassination Attempt Video - ABC News

  13. TOOLS FOR FOREIGN POLICY • DIPLOMACY • ECONOMIC AID • MILITARY AID • HUMANITARIAN AID • TREATIES • SANCTIONS • MILITARY INTERVENTION

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