Historians react to former VP Mike Pence's saying it would be 'unprecedented in history' for him to summoned to speak before the Jan. 6 Committee
‘s second vice president, also testified before Congress, appearing for the Senate Committee on Banking and Commerce in December of 1942, regarding his role as chairman of the entity responsible for the procurement and production of exported materials for the war effort. The testimony was described in the New Yorkas related to a festering disagreement with Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones over a bill to increase the lending authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, run by Jones.
Colfax and Wallace may be the only sitting or former VPs to have testified before Congress—the Senate Historical Office told TIME their research on this topic has not been exhaustive—but they are certainly not the only members of the executive branch. In fact, several Presidents have been in that hot seat. None other than Abraham Lincoln was the first president to give testimony before a congressional committee.
The next president to face a committee was Woodrow Wilson, who accepted an invitation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about a peace treaty with Germany and the proposed League of Nations. In replying by letter to committee Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge, the president urged transparency and concurred with the committee’s desire that his testimony be made public.
Grayson continued, “They went after him with numerous already prepared questions—but he simply had too much brains for them…Several Republicans would go off into the corner of the room—the East room—put their heads together and then come back and propound a question and the President would answer them as if he already had the answer written out for them.”League of NationsOn Oct.
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