President of the United States
of America: George Walker Bush
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington,
DC 20500
Phone: 1-202-456-1414 Fax: 1-202-456-2461
(More numbers and contact information are online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
.)
Web site: http://www.whitehouse.gov
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
A brief biography of Mr. Bush is online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
Recent statements by the President are online at Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents.
A brief biography of the First Lady, Laura Welch Bush, is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/flbio.html
For information on previous Presidents, Vice Presidents, and their families, good online sources include the White House's own history pages, Encyclopedia Americana , and the National Archives' links to Presidential Libraries. The Library of Congress has an online gallery of portraits of Presidents and First Ladies.
The White House Greetings Office handles requests for greetings from the President for birthdays (of people 80 years old or older), wedding anniversaries (50th or higher), and certain other special events. In most cases, greetings will be mailed from the White House approximately ten days prior to the event.
The White House Kids' page has games, information on the President's pets, and other information designed to be fun for young people. Another site for kids of all ages about American history and Government is Ben's Guide to Government, hosted by a cartoon version of Benjamin Franklin.
The basic Federal law pertaining to the Presidency and the Executive Branch of the Government is Article II of the Constitution of the United States of America. (The Constitution is online at several places.)
Vice-President of the United
States: Richard
B. ("Dick") Cheney
A brief biography
of him is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/
His e-mail address: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
The Vice President is also President of the Senate.
There is also a brief biography of his wife, Lynne V.
Cheney.
The current terms of office of the President and the Vice President began at noon, January 20, 2005, and will end at noon, January 20, 2009. (See U.S. Constitution, Amendment XX, section 1.)
ORDER OF SUCCESSION:
Amendment
XXV of the Constitution of the United States states that, "In case
of the removal of the President from office or his death or resignation,
the Vice President shall become President", and then provides for naming
a new Vice President. The United
States Code, Title 3, Section 19, as amended, says that should
both
the President and Vice President die, resign or become otherwise unable
to hold office, the next-in-line is the Speaker
of the House, currently Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, then the President
Pro-Tempore of the Senate, West Virginia's own Senator Robert C. Byrd. Then, after him, come the members of the Cabinet in the
following order, which is the order in which the departments were founded. Any
person who succeeds to the office of the Presidency must meet the qualifications
for President listed in Article
II of the Constitution.
CABINET
MEMBERS-- Heads of Executive Departments and their departments'
web sites
These nominations are subject to Senate confirmation.