Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Cast of Characters 11
5. 1 The Assassin 17
6. 2 Before the Attack 32
7. 3 The Shooting and Its Aftermath 48
8. 4 The President's Men 81
9. 5 Confusion: In the White House and the Hospital 104
10. 6 How Well Was the President's Condition Reported to the Nation? 136
11. 7 Was His Capacity for Decision Making Unimpaired? 154
12. 8 A Response to Presidential Disability: The Twenty-fifth Amendment 164
13. 9 The Failure to Invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment 178
14. 10 The First Use of the Disability Provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment 197
15. 11 The Next Time 215
16. 12 Looking Back and Looking Forward 249
17. Postscript Presidential Health and the Public Interest: The Campaign of 1992 265
18. Appendix 1 : Laws on Succession 313
19. Appendix 2: The National Command Authority 321
20. Appendix 3: The Situation Room 329
21. Appendix 4: The Interregnum -Election Day to Inauguration 333
22. Notes 343
23. Acknowledgments 403
24. Index 409