Vice President of the United States the Twenty-fifth Amendment established a procedure for filling such a vacancy: This procedure has been implemented twice since the amendment came into force. The first instance occurred in 1973 following the October 10 resignation of Spiro Agnew, when Gerald Ford was nominated by President Richard Nixon and confirmed by Congress. The second occurred 10 months later following Ford's August 9, 1974 accession to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, when Nelson Rockefeller was nominated by President Ford and confirmed by Congress. Had it not been for this new constitutional mechanism, the vice presidency would have remained vacant after Agnew's resignation and
Flag of the Vice President of the United States When Nelson Rockefeller, who was particularly critical of it, was nominated to the office under President Gerald Ford in 1975, he received permission to redesign the seal (and therefore the flag). The Army's Institute of Heraldry was asked to come up with an appropriate design. After several months of work, where about twenty models were rejected, a design was finally accepted and Ford issued on October 29, 1975, which redefined the coat of arms, seal, and flag of the Vice President. The use of the four stars (one in each corner) is a characteristic shared by the flags used by