Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!87064023 From: 87064023@sdcc3.UUCP ({|lit) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: what happens if Reagan dies? Message-ID: <2581@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 21:41:20 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2581 Posted: Thu Dec 20 21:41:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 03:06:37 EST References: <301@bonnie.UUCP> <412@ihu1h.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 10 > > 4) AND FINALLY, if both president- and vice-president-elect are dead by > Inauguration Day, the order of succession (Secy. of State, etc.) > hold temporarily until Congress chooses a president. > -- The secretary of state is not in the order of succession for president (nor is he mentioned in the constitution at all). The individual in line for the presidency after the vice president is the Speaker of the House.