In Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth
Amendment, the contributors explore not only the historical
beginnings and the subsequent development of the Twentty-Fifth
Amendment, but also its contributions to the health of the nation.
The Watergate scandal of 1973-1974 solidified the Amendment's
strength when it was invoked after the resignation of Vice
President Spiro Agnew, and again after Richard Nixon's resignation.
President Reagan's failure to use the Amendment in 1981 after being
shot and seriously wounded disappointed those who championed its
provisiouns but the strong backlash he received actually
strengthened the Amendment and convinced subsequent Administrations
to develop plans for its use. The President who takes office in
2001 is likely to devise similar plans. The Amendment is positioned
to be a crucial tool if, as seems inevitable, the country again
confronts a case of presidential inability, whether the inability
entails illness or even kidnapping. It respects the presidency by
making it difficult to oust a Chief Executive from exercising his
powers and duties, giving a decisive role to those likely to
protect the president and embodying checks and balances at every
point in the processs.It avoids a definition of the term
"inability" so as to provide decision-makers with flexibility and
escapes the legalisms that such a definition could cause in a time
of political turmoil. Both a legal and a political document, the
Amendment deals with its subjects practically and in a manner
consistent with the principle of separation of powers. It is likely
to ensure stability and continuity in the event of a national
crisis. The contributors to this essentialvolume are: Birch Bayh,
three-term United States Senator from Indiana, who authored and
sponsored both the Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments; John
D. Feerick, Dean of the Fordham University School of Law and author
of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment; Robert E. Gilbert, Professor of
Political Science at Northeastern University, and author of The
Mortal Presidency, which was designated a 1998 outstanding book by
Choice; Jeol K. Goldstein, Professor of Law at St. Louis University
School of Law and author of The Modern Vice-Presidency and
Understanding Constitutional Law; Robert J. Joynt, Distinguished
University Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy at the
University of Rochester; E. Connie Mariano; M.D., Personal
Physician to President Clinton and Director of the White House
Medical Unit; Lawrence C. Mhr, M.D., White House physician from
1987 to 1993, serving Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, and
currently professor of Medicine and Director of the Environmental
Biosciences Program at the Medical University of South Carolina;
Jerrold M. Post, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the
Political Psychology Program at the George Washington University;
Robert S. Robbins, Professor of Political Science at Tulane
University and co-author of When Illness Strikes the Leader;
Kenneth W. Thompson, Director of the Miller Center at the
University of Virginia frm 1978 to 1998; James F. Toole, M.D.,
Teagle Professor of Neurology and Professor of Public Health
Sciences at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest
University; Tom Wicker, former Washington Bureau Chief for the New
York Times, and James M. Young M.D., White House Physician serving
Presidents Kennedy andJohnson, from 1963 to 1966.
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