ABSTRACT
The constitutional amendment on presidential succession and disability raises in extreme form the problem of recommending policy for unique cases. The introduction of a second vice-president would also lead to what might be called the "politics of polygamy." The potentiality of conflict, favoritism, and intrigue would be multiplied with two vice-presidents looking for work, perhaps by encroaching on the secretary of state or other highly placed officials. Proposals concerned with presidential disability are designed to deal with four kinds of events: The president is so badly incapacitated that he cannot communicate with the vice-president, the president knows he is disabled and tells the vice-president to take over. Any person who succeeds to the presidency should belong to the same political party as the former president. The structure of problems like presidential succession and presidential disability is very different from that encountered in making most policy recommendations.
