Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Preface to the Third Edition xiii
5. Acknowledgments from the 1992 Edition xvii
6. Foreword to the 1976 Edition xix
7. Preface to the 1976 Edition xxi
8. I The Problems
9. 1 Presidential Inability 1
10. 2 Vice- Presidential Vacancy 25
11. 3 Succession Beyond the Vice Presidency 33
12. II The Solution
13. 4 Early Steps to Solve the Inability Problem 47
14. 5 Senate Passage of S. J. Res. 139 [ 56
15. 6 Congress Acts 79
16. 7 Ratification 105
17. 8 An Analysis of Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Amendment 108
18. III Implementations of the Solution
19. 9 The Resignation of Spiro T. Agnew 123
20. 10 The Substitution of Gerald R. Ford 135
21. 11 The Resignation of Richard M. Nixon and Succession of Gerald R. Ford 158
22. 12 The Installation of Nelson A. Rockefeller 167
23. 13 The Uses and Non-Uses of Section 3 190
24. IV Continued Interest and Efforts to Change
25. 14 Congressional Action 205
26. 15 Symposia, Scholarship, and Commissions 221
27. 16 Representation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment in Popular Culture 254
28. V An Evaluation
29. 17 Appraisal 263
30. 18 Recommendations 291
31. Appendixes
32. Appendix A Section- by- Section Development of the Twenty- Fifth Amendment 297
33. Appendix B Constitutional Provisions on Succession 306
34. Appendix C Statutory Succession Laws 309
35. Appendix D Presidential and Vice- Presidential Vacancies 313
36. Appendix E Times During Which the Speaker, the President pro tempore, or Both Were from a Party Different from the President’s 315
37. Appendix F Rule Number 9 of the Republican Party 317
38. Appendix G Selected Sections of the Charter and Bylaws of the Democratic Party 318
39. Appendix H Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to House Speaker John W. McCormack 320
40. Appendix I Schedule of Gerald Ford for August 9, 1974 338
41. Appendix J Twenty- Fifth Amendment Memo Prepared for President Gerald R. Ford 340
42. Notes 351
43. Bibliography 399
44. Index 415