Even though it was created forty years after the fact, it is perfectly built for a President Wilson-type situation. Because of the two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate...the odds are heavily in favor of it never being used, unless a Wilson-type scenario were to occur again.
Even though it was created forty years after the fact, it is perfectly built for a President Wilson-type situation.
By the time of Ike’s heart attacks we were already in the cold war/atomic age. Really bad things could to the country in minutes and hours, not weeks or months.
And then there was the nightmare scenario of Kennedy. What if he’d survived the attempt, but was mentally a vegetable? He couldn’t resign, I suppose he could be impeached, but for what?
The 25th provides a means of dealing with all three scenarios. It wasn’t designed to deal with an ORANGE MAN BAD!! situation.