it was imagined, as you said, in the wake of the jfk assassination and also the illness of dwrooiight eisenhoweo the framer of the amendment was thinking mainly of the president being ill, but they did contemplate the possibility that he might be mentally disabled, and they decided that would be a political judgment by the vice president and members of the cabinet. so that s why section iv says, if the vice president and members of the cabinet by majority vote and say the president is disabled, they can remove him. if he says, hey, i m fine, i m not disabled, then congress decides by a two-thirds vote of both the house and senate. in other words, it s hard to remove the president through the 25th amendment than through impeachment, which requires a majority vote in the house and two-thirds in the senate. but ultimately, birch bye says it s a political decision about whether they think the president is unable to discharge his office. so because the bar for removing the president is as
welcome back. after the assassination of president kennedy, congress became quite concerned about what would happen in the event of a severely incapacitated president, wounded, unable to serve. so an amendment was drafted. devised to address a tragedy americans, of course, hope would never occur. now, principle author of the 25th amendment, which was drafted in 1963, and then historically ratiied quite soon after by constitutional standards in 1967 was senator birch bye of indiana. i m excited to say jay berman is the former chief of staff to senator birch bye. he was a congressional aide to the senator, working to get that constitutional amendment passed, which happened, of course. that is a rarity in and of itself. thanks for coming in. thank you. yes, it s very rare and it s even rarer, the fact that we have one senator who guided into passage two constitutional amendments. no one since the founding
starts with a conversation. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today. welcome back. after the assassination of president kennedy, congress became quite concerned about what would happen in the event of a severely incapacitated president, wounded, unable to serve. so an amendment was drafted. devised to address a tragedy americans, of course, hope would never occur. now, principle author of the 25th amendment, which was drafted in 1963, and then historically ratified quite soon after by constitutional standards in 1967 was senator birch bye of indiana. i m excited to say jay berman is the former chief of staff to senator birch bye. he was a congressional aide to the senator, working to get that constitutional amendment passed, which happened, of course. that is a rarity in and of itself. thanks for coming in. thank you. yes, it s very rare and it s even rarer, the fact that we
states that have become contests that many people thought were basically going to be not going to be looking good for the democrats. they weren t expected to be in play. for instance, republican linda mcmahon is proving to be a formidable opponent to chris murphy, the democrat in connecticut. that s for joe lieberman s old seat. in indiana joe donnelly is keeping up with tea party favorite richard murdoch. up in maine an inter three-way. angus king, an independent, jumped in the race when olympia snowe announced she was going to retire. but king is now facing a challenge from republican secretary of state summers. cynthia dill trails well behind. i m betting on king up there. let s talk about in fascinating race in indiana where the notre dame guy joe donnelly is running. normally indiana it s is a killer state for democrats. except for bye, birch bye and evan bayh. what do you think of that race? it gets to another point which we haven t discussed which is that in some of these ke
there yet, but they ve made concrete steps to move it in that direction. i think the country by and large is starting to buy it. let s take a look at the states that have become contests that many people thought were basically going to be not going to be looking good for the democrats. they weren t expected to be in play. for instance, republican linda mcmahon is proving to be a formidable opponent to chris murphy, the democrat in connecticut. that s for joe lieberman s old seat. in indiana joe donnelly is keeping up with tea party favorite richard murdoch. up in maine an inter three-way. angus king, an independent, jumped in the race when olympia snowe announced she was going to retire. but king is now facing a challenge from republican secretary of state summers. cynthia dill trails well behind. i m betting on king up there. let s talk about in fascinating race in indiana where the notre dame guy joe donnelly is running. normally indiana it s is a killer state for democrats. exce