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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: U.S. presidential succession - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 00:11:26 EST
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uokvax!rigney    Nov 15 01:17:00 1983

An additional question that's always interested me (but then, I
have a morbid mind):  we know the president is never far from 
"the football," a briefcase containing the codes to authorize a
nuclear strike.  If the president is killed or incapacitated, who
gets the football?  Is there a spare with the VP?  (Almost certainly
not!  Certainly not with the Speaker, etc., etc.)  Does the agent
with the football make a mad dash to the VP, and/or vice versa?
Just how far down does the line of succession go, and are all these
people in Washington at one time?  Of course the VP and P don't travel
on the same plane, but how far does that extend?

And has anyone seen the NatLamp cartoon about a Secretary of
some minor dept or another plotting to remove all those ahead of
him in the line of succession?:-)

		Carl
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