Archive Report
Archive Report
New Tests in Transfer of the Presidency
Passage of Two Decades Without a President-Elect
Whatever the outcome of the November election, the United States will have a new President next January. Not since 1933 has there been a change of White House occupants as the result of an election. Roosevelt's long tenure through repeated re-election, Truman's succession from the vice presidency on the death of Roosevelt, and Truman's subsequent election for a full term have made it 20 years since a President-elect waited to take over the reins from an outgoing President. Now, with Truman not running, the country of a certainty faces the almost forgotten problems of a changeover in national administrations.
Although the Roosevelt administration gave way to the Truman administration in 1945, Truman undertook ...