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