If the U.S. president were to die, become incapacitated, resign or be removed from office, the U.S. Constitution and Presidential Succession Act of 1947 outlines who would be next in the line of ...

The Veterans Affairs secretary is 17th in the presidential line of succession, which was outlined in the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 and updated during the Truman administration’s ...

If the U.S. president were to die, become incapacitated, resign or be removed from office, the U.S. Constitution and Presidential Succession Act of 1947 outlines who would be next in the line of ...

To understand why, read the 25th Amendment. Ratified in 1967, it clarified the rules of presidential and vice-presidential succession and disability.

If the U.S. president were to die, become incapacitated, resign or be removed from office, the U.S. Constitution and Presidential Succession Act of 1947 outlines who would be next in the line of ...

The tradition calls for a member of the president's cabinet to be absent from speeches to joint sessions of Congress to ensure the line of succession stays alive.

If the U.S. president were to die, become incapacitated, resign or be removed from office, the U.S. Constitution and Presidential Succession Act of 1947 outlines who would be next in the line of ...