Which means he would have been passed over in the line of succession had it ever gotten that far. After the President pro tem of the Senate would have come the Secretary of the Treasury.
State, then Treasury.
-PJ
41 posted on 03/25/2009 1:00:54 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
(You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
We’re talking about when Henry Kissinger was at State. Had something happened to everyone in the line of presidential succession above him, he would have been bypassed in favor of the Treasury secretary.