Posted on 02/18/2008 2:57:49 PM PST by kellynla
YORBA LINDA – The first Amendment was alive and well today, Presidents' Day, as demonstrators for and against the war in Iraq displayed signs along Yorba Linda Boulevard, in front of the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
The larger group, a dozen strong, set up on a corner waiving signs criticizing the war and handing out slices of "Bring Them Home-made Pie" to passersby.
A man driving a yellow Hummer honked at the group and gave it a thumbs up. They responded in kind.
One of the demonstrators, Pat Alviso, waved a sign with a picture of her son.
"He is career Marine Corps," she said.
Though he is now stationed in Oahu, "He knows – we both know – he is going to go back. Some of these guys are on their fifth tour. It's a crime. We have to be out here.''
Across the street, a man stood alone most of the morning, holding a sign that said, "Support Our Troops.''
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Two Vice Presidents served under more than one President--George Clinton, who served under Jefferson and Madison and died with 10 months and a couple of weeks left in his second term, and John Calhoun, who served under J. Q. Adams and Jackson, but resigned shortly before the end of his second term to take a seat in the Senate.
After John Adams, the first VP, the next one to complete a full eight years in the office was Thomas Marshall (1913-1921). Since then Garner, Nixon, and G. H. W. Bush have done so, and Cheney will be the sixth assuming nothing unexpected happens between now and Jan. 20, 2009.
7 Vice Presidents died in office: George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, William R. King, Henry Wilson, Thomas Hendricks, Garret Hobart, and James Sherman.
The US had no VP for 7 out of 8 years in the 1880s--from Sept. 20, 1881 to March 4, 1885, then from Nov. 25, 1885 to March 4, 1889.
Dallas, Texas, is the largest city named for a Vice President of the United States.
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