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I thought he was already dead. Guess that is what I get for thinking.
Any of ya'll remember when President Reagan was shot and Haig created a furor when he said that he was in charge?
If you watch the clip of it, he was only saying he was in charge of the White House until the VP could take over.
If you watch the clip of it, he was only saying he was in charge of the White House until the VP could take over.
"Im in charge here in the white House" of coarse he was talking about the government. i sincerely doubt he was talking about running the mansion.
I'm not sure I agree with you on the meaning of "Im in charge here in the white House" . When I saw the clip the other day, I believed he meant the White House in general and not the whole country. And thats the problem with fairly generic statements like that - can go both ways.
I doubt Mr Haig was trying to reassure us that the lawn upkeep and was being done and the bills are being paid.
http://www.continuityofgovernment.org/SecondReport.pdf
Page 32.
The 1886 Presidential Succession Act turned the presidency over to cabinet members in the order of the creation of their respective departments, which were Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, Secretary of theNavy, and Secretary of the Interior.
The law included several other minor provisions. The 1886 Act did not require a special election when a statutory successor to the President takes office as did the first succession act. It did, however, require the statutory President (the Secretary of State or lower cabinet official who takes over as president) to call Congress into session within twenty days so that Congress would have the opportunity to provide for a special election by law if it so chose.