The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day 

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When he was asked about his "term" years later, he said he was proud to say his administration suffered no major scandals.

Simiar situation, however much darker, happened in Poland in 2010. In 2010 Lech Kaczyński, who was the President of Poland, was killed in a plane crash. The vacancy was filled by the Marshall of Sejm, and that position was held by Bronisław Komorowski. That meant, he was the acting President of Poland. It so happened, that Komorowski won the presidential election in the second round of voting on 4th of July, defeating Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech's twin brother. Unfortunately, you cannot be both President of Poland and the Marshall of Sejm, so he had to step down from his current office. He resigned on 8th of July, and because the first two positions in the hierarchy were vacated, the role of acting president was given to the Marshall of Senate. Bogdan Borusewicz held the role at the time, so he became the acting president. Few hours later at the same day, Grzegorz Schetyna was elected as Marshall of Sejm, taking over the role of the acting president from Borusewicz, and he held it until 6th of August, when Komorowski was sworn in, ending the reign of the three Acting Presidents of Poland. And here would be an ad for anyone who is sponsoring the comment, but no one does.

More like "The US didn't have a President"

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I actually did a report on David Atchison in eighth grade because of this. That was fun to research. A small part of Missouri is really proud of him.

And then he went on to found Gravity Falls

“He got through his term without tweeting” *Shots Fired*

As a U.S citizen I can confirm the existence of the 3 headed Uncle Sam, and yes he switches his ideals and opinion faster than the U.S debt can pile up

- "The guy who was NOT President for a day" - would be a more apt title given your conclusion at the end of the video.

HAI: "Totally fact." Also HAI: "Maybe"

IMO, you always go back to: if there was an emergency during that window, who would have acted on it. Chances are, it would've been Polk in consultation with Taylor until he could be sworn in and the hypothetical question would've been resolved later.

"And if there's one thing I know about American politics, it's that there are never double standards." *Laughs in dual party system*

I think I’m feeling ill. I just watched an HAI episode with no reference to an aircraft, airport, or flight logistics.

I like how you've started to do the Stephen Colbert "and man who" joke.

This is one of those times in history where you realize all the great leaders everyone idolizes were just people. The government is not intrinsic, it was created by humans, who are flawed and make mistakes. This is the government equivalent of "Huh, never thought about that. Whatever, it is what it is."

Didnt know that Severus Snape was President of the US once ! So many talents in that man

2:55 Normal office conversation: "Hello." "Hi!" "Do you know the 13th US predident?" "This guy?" "No it's the other guy." "No he's not..." "Yes he is!" "grrrumble!"

Since I’m learning 8th grade US history, this all definitely makes sense

There was a woman who was Queen of England for 9 days

You keep saying "Atchinson" but labelled him as Atchison

So basically "he wasn't but let me tell you a cool historical anecdote"

You're technically correct, and that's the best kind of correct" -bureaucracy guy from Futurama

Ya missed one: 2:44 Old Time Alec Baldwin

“President pro temporary” 😂

"Off brand count Dracula" haha

3:05 First, it sounds like due to religious convictions (1:27), a fundamental human right and a right enshrined in US Law (The Bill of Rights), Mr. Taylor was ' _unable_ ' to accept the Presidential duties right away. 3:42 Second, it sounds like the conclusion is that being sworn in isn't necessary to serve. (4:45). Lastly, it seems like Mr. Atchison was probably at least close enough to being in a position that could be described as President for a day in that he was recognized by the de facto powers of the land at the time as being in charge if anything went down, even if the de jure reality wasn't so. (2:16) Let the dead man have his novel little death plaque you monsters. ಥ╭╮ಥ

It wasn't "probably Zachary Taylor" it WAS Zachary Taylor! Even if he hadn't taken the oath of office he automatically became President at noon on March 4, 1849. While the oath is required of the office it is not required to attain the office. The oath follows the attainment of the Office of President. For that reason Lyndon Johnson was addressed as "Mr President" after President Kennedy was pronounced dead on November 22, 1963. He didn't take the oath until he was on Air Force One, but that could have been delayed until after his arrival at Washington without ant doubt as to who was the actual, lawful President.

5:07 man don’t get me started about the DMV

Why do presidents like to golf so much ?

Some guy: "are you the president?" That guy: " M A Y B E" Edit: OMG 7 likes?!

In Germany, we had a quite similar situation, but with the difference, that our very first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Arnold, only took office for 5 days and, despite being the first German president, is so forgotten about, that there isn’t even a photograph of him on Wikipedia.

United States: *Has a president for one day* Argentina: I am a joke to you?

HAI, the master of sorting through and finding creative ways to use stock video clips.

Remember that stop motion animation Christmas movie, The Year Without Santa Claus? Well that song could be slightly altered for this situation. The Day Without a President. 😁 You likey?

Videos about random aspects of American culture and politics are some of my favorite videos to watch. Keep up the good work!

I read a book as a kid that said David Atchison slept the entire day he was president.

Perhaps he could be considered an "acting" US president? There have been a few of those from time to time, and they are not given ordinal numbers.

He was my great great great great grandfather! Thank you for doing this tidbit about his life! 🙂

As a clerk at a DMV, I resent that accusation. We're also not sloths. I swear half my day is spent waiting for the computer to do something. I mean, hell, one of the systems we use is an emulation of a terminal from the '70's and which regularly crashes every 3-4-ish months.

Wait a second, if Taylor was unable to "execute the duties of his office," doesn't that mean he was unable to serve?

Seriously how can you afford so much stock footage?

This has to be one of the best videos put out on this channel. I consider myself to be a bit educated on US history and I've never heard about this. Amazing.

I'm watching this accidentally on the anniversary of him taking office

2:58 oh damn its james a janisse

0:29 And if you were a European Student you may not remember them at all

I'm not surprised. There was a week here in Argentina when we had 5 presidents

When I saw the video title, my first thought was when Alexander Haig said "I'm in control here" when Reagan was in the hospital after the assassination attempt.

I have suggested this video before.

"I am the president of the world" - Kim Jong-un

Dude!!! I've probably viewed like 70 of your videos so far & The Three headed Uncle Sam is the *funniest thing ever!!!* Nice!!

Funny thing is, I did a quiz on US presidents yesterday and found this out.

2:30 Come on man u could've said an "online influencer"

I’ve seen this guys, it was an episode of Gravity Falls

Even stranger: there were 7 Presidents of the U.S before George Washington.

Ah yes, the 8th ½ president, Quentin Trembley.

Quentin Trembley III

You’ve probably never heard of David Achtison me who had to learn about bleeding Kansas- 😑

The jags at 45 are hysterical.

We had a 45 minutes presidency in Mexico. (Pedro Lascuráin, feb. 19, 1913, 17:15-18:00)

Atchison or Atchinson? You say it differently to the spelling.

Ayyy March 5 my birthday!

The shade you throw in these videos is mildly impressive! 😂

0:50 i live in dc and can say that it is defensively not “notoriously temperate” in january. last year it differ snow once and i don’t particularly remember it getting below 25 degrees

"...much like the oval office on a nice golfing day, empty" I see what you did there

2:47 wouldn't "de jure" as opposed to "de facto" be more accurate in this case to describe such situation.

0:22 "If you were a good student, you may remember there faces from your high school history class, If you were a bad student, you may remember their faces from the money you used to buy exam keys." *bold of you to assume I was a student*

I first heard this story on an episode of ”Mysteries at the Museum.”

someone: are you president ? Atchison: *YES BUT ACTUALLY NO*

43 views 36 likes good job youtube you might not be wrong this time

Interesting video, thanks. I would just note that Article 2(1) at 3:24 of the video only seems relevant if we have already concluded (as indeed we might do, for separate reasons, for example as concluded at 4:53 of the video) that Taylor was indeed, from noon on 4th March 1849 despite non-inauguration, already President and not merely President-Elect (because Article 2(1) seemingly does not address Presidents-Elect).

6:01 wait it's illegal to keep a new year's resolution

Jajajajajaja, you should ser the Argentinian history. We had a once day president when the leaving president and the arriving one, four years ago didn't do the presidential act. Glory to president Pinedo. Ahhh and you MUST see the December of 2001 debacle. 5 presidents in one or two days.

0:21 "You've probably heard of most of these guys" ORR If you're from outside the USA, you might know like 10 of them at most.

Meanwhile in Cuba 1934 - *Manuel Marquez Sterling is only president for 4 hours*

The shade HAI is throwing

The sabbath is Saturday though!!!

I wouldn't mind if Mr. Beast would be President even just for one day

It actually (I think, correct me if I’m wrong) would have been Robert Charles Winthrop who was speaker of the house at the time and right below the president and Vice President in the line of succession.

I’m still waiting for that brick video.

Idea: how the US has gone 3+ years without a president

2085: The buy who said the biggest lie in US history - HAI " the to thing I know about US politics, there are no double standards"

Amazing, keep it up!

France : *Laughs in 21 minutes King.*

America needs my spirit to lead the nation

"You can still hold a job, even if you don't have the ability to perform the job the way you're actually supposed to. For proof, just..." ...look at the current president.

He was the best prez this country has or ever will see. Perfect record with 0 impeachments, 100% approval rating, 0 bans on Social Media, No hate spread, no scandals and no lies while in office. What a champ.

Actually in Argentina the president of the Senate was President of the country for only 12 hours.

Joe Biden be like:

For those 24 hours the USA was a headless chicken running with no direction, something, it seems, it has never recovered from.

Gotta say, this is a really good system with no flaws.

We currently have an orange president, or maybe thats just a cheeto thats gained sentience and i need my glases fixed. *shrug*

Fun fact: John Hanson was the technical 1st president of the United States, but was discounted because the United States wasn’t technically the United States yet.

I was top comment for one day.

This is one of my favorite pieces of trivia.

Makes you wonder about shenanigans in other counties political systems that don’t really get looked into

Last time I was this early jeffrey epstein didn't kill himself yet

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Me, only sticking around for the audible sponsorship to see if there is a mention of Hamilton: Wait for it.

Watching this on President's Day!