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BREAKING: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Resigns

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/14/2017 1:24:04 am PST

re: #213 goddamnedfrank

Can’t happen until 2021 because VP’s have to be elected and there’s is no mechanism for replacing them. After Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973 there was no replacement, and ten months later when Nixon resigned and Speaker of the House Gerald Ford became President there still was no VP. The Vice Presidency was vacant until January 20th 1977 when Walter Mondale was sworn in.

Aha…I always thought that Ford had been named VP to replace Agnew before becoming Prez.

Thank you for filling in this gap in my knowledge of Rules of Succession.