It was ratified in , after John F. The answer: whenever the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet are ready to do so. The amendment does not say when a President is unfit to serve. It just says this, under section Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Stop counting sheep today. Fall asleep to the sounds of nature or comforting ambient noise. So if this were to play out today, the Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the cabinet these folks would have to tell the Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the president pro tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley that they think the President Donald Trump should be removed. As soon as the message was delivered, Pence would be President.
It was invoked twice by President George W. Bush for short periods of time while he was sedated for a colonoscopy. But Section 4 of the amendment has never been used and it opens up a gray area around presidential capacity.
The wording leaves open the possibility that mental incapacity could become grounds for removing a president. Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide , transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
So, what would happen if the Vice President and other leaders get to the point where they go ahead and invoke the 25 th Amendment? If two-thirds of both houses vote to remove him, the vice president becomes the acting president. Of course, the big problem here is that no vice president in his right mind would do anything that looked like he was trying to unseat and then succeed the president. Vice presidents can do a great deal of damage to themselves and to our democracy by seeming to engineer a palace coup against the president who selected them.
Short of watching Donald Trump run naked and screaming down Pennsylvania Avenue on prime-time television, Mike Pence or any vice president would never begin such proceedings. Ditto for the Cabinet officers Trump appointed. And, of course, the President could always fire the Cabinet members that went along with such a movement—throwing the entire effort into chaos. Psychopathic attributes were identified by the Emory team as superficial charm, egocentricity, dishonesty, callousness, risk-taking, poor impulse control and fearlessness.
The research covered every president except the current one and Barack Obama. Professor Scott Lilienfeld, who led the study, says: "I suspect that in the long run these traits are going to catch up with people. LBJ, for example, had an ego the size of his home state of Texas. He brazenly stole his Senate election, then even more shamelessly joked about it, according to Robert Caro's multi-volume biography. Johnson thought nothing of casually putting his hand up another woman's skirt while his wife, Lady Bird, was sitting right next to him.
He liked to humiliate underlings by summoning them to take dictation while he urinated in a washbasin or defecated in a toilet.
However, LBJ may have caused his own political Alamo with widely suspected lies to the American people about a fake naval skirmish in the Gulf of Tonkin in Johnson used the incident to dramatically escalate the US war in Vietnam.
But amid the hecatomb of the Tet Offensive four years later, LBJ announced he would not run for a second term. Andrew Jackson - who signed the ethnic-cleansing Indian Removal Act - is remembered today more for his cruelty than for the enviable accomplishment of being the only president ever to fully pay off the national debt. And Bill Clinton's reputation, of course, was left in tatters by his sexual impulsivity. Some presidents have handled the strains of the Oval Office less well than others.
Even as vice-president, Richard Nixon was taking prescription drugs for anxiety and depression, along with sleeping pills washed down by alcohol. John A Farrell's biography details how the unstable Watergate leader drank excessively throughout his turbulent tenure. White House tapes record him slurring his words amid the tinkle of ice cubes.
Henry Kissinger, his top diplomat, once said Nixon couldn't take a call from the British prime minister during a Middle East crisis because he was "loaded".
His psychotherapist, Dr Arnold Hutschnecker, was the only mental health professional ever known to have treated a president at the White House. He said Nixon had "a good portion of neurotic symptoms". Prof Davidson's armchair diagnosis is no. He cites debate among psychiatrists internationally as to whether narcissism - a trait so often attributed to the current president - is even a bona fide personality disorder.
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