Word: successional
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Let me tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian...
Play a thought experiment on the decision by iran last week to restart the process of uranium enrichment that, under an agreement with the major European powers, it had ceased in 2004. Assume - as many fear - that Iran wants highly enriched uranium not so that it can develop nuclear power...
The vice-presidential term of Al Gore ’69 would have ended on January 20 as well, so the next in line for the White House, under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, was the speaker of the House: J. Dennis Hastert.
With the outcome of the 2000 presidential election unclear, it was conceivable—or, at least, not inconceivable—that a succession crisis would have vaulted Summers from Treasury secretary to commander-in-chief.
After Thurmond, the next person in the order of succession would be the secretary of state, who at the time was Madeline Albright. But Albright, a Czech immigrant, was born in Prague, and Article II of the Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen...