Focus (Forum & Focus)
Feb. 5, 2008
Expanded Succession Guidelines Would Protect Our Institutions
Forum Column - By Brad Sherman - The U.S. needs to establish legal succession guidelines in the event that a candidate, president-elect or vice president-elect is killed.
By Brad Sherman
This article appears on Page 6.
In Pakistan, the leading candidate for national office was assassinated just two weeks before the election, perhaps by the same terrorists who have attacked us. How well-designed are our institutions to deal with a similarly timed attack?
America is uniquely vulnerable from the date the two parties complete their nominating c...
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