Biden Floundering: Historical Precedents on Presidential Disability

It appears increasingly unlikely that President Joe Biden can finish this year, let alone his term, in the Oval Office.

Biden may either be persuaded to voluntarily resign or face a first-ever formal challenge to a president's continuance in office, per the 25th Amendment.

From October 2, 1919, to March 4, 1921, when Warren Harding became president, the nation was without a fully functioning president.

Regency on the part of Edith Bolling Galt, the prominent socialite and second wife of Wilson; Wilson's personal secretary, Joseph Tumulty; and the president's physician, Dr. Cary Grayson.

He told them that the vice president should step in, per the Constitution's 12th Amendment - "In the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president" - given Wilson's manifest inability to carry on.

Vice President Alfred Marshall, whom Wilson thought "a small-calibre man," was kept in the dark.

Two days into this last ordeal, Ike told his inner circle, "If I cannot attend to my duties, I am simply going to give up this job. Now, that is all there is to it." Top Eisenhower aide Sherman Adams then alerted Vice President Richard Nixon that he might become president in 24 hours.

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