Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on KPBS 2. The film tells the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence.
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson walk across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. to attend a ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first state Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted in Wisconsin in 1911, on the South Lawn. Secret Service Agent Bob Lilley follows. Aug. 31, 1961.
What happens when the President of the United States is unable to fulfill the duties of the office due to illness, incapacity or death? Incredibly, it is a question that went without a definitive answer for much of American history. The framers of the Constitution named the vice president the designated successor to the commander-in-chief but were vague about the myriad details that would necessarily attend such a transfer of power.
Amid the perils of the nuclear age, civil rights protests and a war brewing in Vietnam, the role of the vice president and the constitutional ambiguity around succession was now a matter of urgent national concern. Led by a freshman senator from Indiana named, Congress spent the next 18 months debating a proposed constitutional amendment, the 25th, which ultimately provided detailed procedures for both a transfer of presidential power and a means of filling a vice-presidential vacancy.
Ratified in 1967 the 25th Amendment was invoked for the first time in 1973, under circumstances that no one involved in its drafting had likely ever imagined, when Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced from office under the cloud of a corruption scandal.Left to right: Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Richard Nixon holding a meeting in the Oval Office, April 23, 1969.
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