POLS 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Helen Herron Taft, Cuban Missile Crisis, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Good perks: salary of ,000 a year, room and board (great house, private chef, use of a country retreat (camp david) and a private 747 (air force one) Constitutional qualifications: natural-born citizen, at least 35 years old, resident of u. s. for at least 14 years. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the united states at the time of the adoption of this. Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the united. States. u. s. constitution, article ii, section i, clause5. All presidents have possessed three characteristics: ambition, note: an exception might have been william howard taft, who claimed he wanted to be a. Supreme court justice but his wife pushed him to be president.
