Definitions
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- proper n. The person elected Vice-President of the United States between the time of the election victory on or after Election Day to installation in office usually on Inauguration Day.
Etymologies
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Both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect and their families stood and clapped for most of the song – Malia Obama even looked like she took some pictures.
The Scene at the Lincoln Memorial - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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There is also a provision in the 20th amendment, if a President-elect and Vice-President-elect fail to qualify, that the Congress can decide who will act as President.
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Today, once again, our country is piled high with difficulty, and Americans have put their trust in President-elect Barack Obama and Vice-President-elect Joe Biden to think and act anew.
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Interacting with the media upon Vice-President-elect Joseph Biden's return from a visit to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, Obama described al-Qaeda as number one threat for the United States.
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The caretaker option is legal and it was exercised last month by the Governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, when she picked a former aid of Vice-President-elect Joe Biden to succeed him as caretaker senator of Delaware.
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Days later she said that the President-elect and the Vice-President-elect called her to apologize.
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President-elect Obama and Vice-President-elect Biden understand that we can't recover from this mess and put people back to work if we are gutting the public services that are vital to our communities.
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Since then he has been very busy in the adjoining town of Fairfield, ostensibly collecting materials for a biography of Vice-President-elect Arthur.
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Sending Vice-President-elect Henry Wallace to the December inauguration, was the first public demonstration of how close the Avila Camacho camp and the Roosevelt Administration had become in the struggle against pro-fascist forces.
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President-elect Cannon consults with Vice-President-elect Matthew Fisher regularly and frequently as the appointments are made.
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