If the vice president is thrust into office, who selects the next vice president?

Question

If the vice president is thrust into office, who selects the next vice president?

Answer 1

Go back in time to when d**k Nixon's VP, Spiro Agnew stepped down.  The House approved Gerald Ford as the new VP.

Answer 2

This has happened before when Nixon resigned and when Kennedy was assassinated.  The new president selects a Vice President and Congress approves.  

There have been no Vice Presidents for periods of time.  For instance, Johnson had no Vice President from 1963 until 1965, after the election.  

Answer 3

The new president selects his VP, who must then be approved by both houses of Congress.

Answer 4

The new president can either accept the Speaker of the House of Representatives as his successor and have the President pro tem of the Senate as presiding officer of that body until the next scheduled election, as LBJ did; or he can nominate someone, and go through the confirmation process in the Congress, as Ford did.

Answer 5

Hillary

Answer 6

Why don't you check your history when any of the Presidents died in office, or left like Nixon, the Vice President took over his spot and another man was appointed by the new president.  That is why Gerald Ford was harassed so much he never was elected.

Answer 7

"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. "

Answer 8

The new president with the approval of Congress. All Presidential appointees have to be approved by Congress. Even the vice-President.

Answer 9

NOmination by Pres. Ratification by Congress. See 25th Amendment.

Answer 10

The "new" president.