covering all of US Presidential history from April 30th 1789 to today what is the worst possible Presidential Succession? (Ie the President is dead and what happens after that)
That's fairly easy, just follow present history until 2005, then have W. die in "mysterious circumstances and have Cheney take over....
The very thoguht of it sends shivers down my spine...
Or Nixon dies, Agnew resigns, Albert dies, and we get President Eastland and we all know what happens then.
Just think about what happens if Washington dies in his first term, and we have John Adams as president earlier. Some might not think that a problem, but consider what kind of Precedents that would set on early American Democracy.
ya the word ends, speaking of the end of the world, WI Cuban Missile Crisis, becomes the Cuban Missile War, DC is hit, President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Speaker of the House John William McCormack, and Presidents pro tempore of the Senate Carl Hayden a long with most of the government are killed
Spiro Agnew's tax fraud is not revealed until after he assumes the presidency upon Nixon's resignation. In terms of real historical potential, I would say Spiro Agnew.
I do not think George Eastland is likely, because if he becomes next in line for the presidency, the senate can quickly name a different president pro-tempore. It is tradition, not a requirement, that the position goes to the most senior senator of the majority party.
Spiro Agnew's tax fraud is not revealed until after he assumes the presidency upon Nixon's resignation. In terms of real historical potential, I would say Spiro Agnew.
I do not think George Eastland is likely, because if he becomes next in line for the presidency, the senate can quickly name a different president pro-tempore. It is tradition, not a requirement, that the position goes to the most senior senator of the majority party.
How about this one. In 2003 Bush chokes on a pretzel and dies. Cheney goes into cardiac arrest the next day. Dennis Hastert suffer from a clot that leaders to an aneurysm and we get President Ted Stevens.
Or Nixon dies, Agnew resigns, Albert dies, and we get President Eastland and we all know what happens then.
I did read that thread. It describes how George Eastland might assume the presidency in a time of intense turmoil and disaster. The thread is a great example of Murphy's Law, but in a more conventinal setting, I think the senate would have acted differently and put somebody else in line.