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...number of the bills call for Congress to elect a new vice-President when that office becomes vacant. A second group would have the President name a new vice-President. A proposed Constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) combines the best parts of these two proposals; Bayh's bill would have the President nominate a man, who would then have to be confirmed by Congress. This suggestion would avoid having Congress dictate its choice to the President; the need for Congressional confirmation provides a valuable cheek, on the President's decision...
...Presidential succession law ought to be changed now, but if it proves impossible to enact an amendment at this session, Sen. Bayh and his allies should keep trying. The country has learned how important the Presidential succession law is; it should not forget the lesson...
...providing for the election of two Vice Presidents to "strengthen the line of succession." New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Virginia's Democratic Representative J. Vaughan Gary proposed that the Congress be empowered to elect a new Vice President. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh suggested that the President himself nominate a new Vice President, his choice subject to approval by Congress. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "Whatever John McCormack's qualifications as Speaker of the House, it's hard to imagine that even he could consider himself fit for the presidency...
...Bayh, Ind. Mansfield, Mont...
Despite their common feeling that politics is not a matter of issues but of personalities, they disagree about where one can find his political friends in the Senate. Senators like Bayh ("It all depends on the circumstances; you look for help wherever you can get it") or Kennedy ("You look for votes where you can find them") display an essentially free-wheeling attitude; they are not committed to party label or ideology. Others, like McGovrn, look to men who think similarly, regardless of nominal party. There is a few-McIntyre, especially-who look to the other party, hoping that their...