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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1447887, member: 66&quot;](If I dood it I get a whippin.........I dood it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But one of the selling points they used for the state quarters, the President dollars, and the ATB quarters was the teaching potential of the coins.&nbsp; Teachers could use the quarters to &quot;Learn all fifty states in the order that they joined the Union&quot;!!!&nbsp; Of course it took ten years and by the time little Johnny learned the last state for the series he started in elementary school he was ready to graduate from high school.&nbsp; And of course from going through our change we now find that the last President was Abraham Lincoln.&nbsp; (&quot;He must have been the last, I haven&#039;t seen anything later than him on dollar coins from the bank.&quot;)&nbsp; But that&#039;s all beside the point, we need these coins for TEACHING!&nbsp; So we NEED those VP dollars.&nbsp; After all if you think it is bad that kids don&#039;t know all the Presidents, how many of the VP&#039;s do they know?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And yes I knew the Gerald Ford answer.&nbsp; I&#039;m old enough I lived through the era.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t see much of it because I was still in elementary school, but I knew about it.&nbsp; Does bring to mind an interesting question I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; How many other VP&#039;s gained the office by appointment?&nbsp; I know Ford was appointed after Agnew resigned, and Rockefeller was appointed after Ford moved to the Presidency, but I don&#039;t know if any of the other VP&#039;s that ascended to the Presidency after the death of the President appointed a new VP to fill the vacancy&nbsp; Or if any VP&#039;s died in office and had replacements appointed.&nbsp; Or did the office remain vacant until the next election?</p><p><br /></p><p>SEE those questions could be answered by a Vice President of the United States circulating (insert denomination here) coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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