You are a new country. You have a constitution. If anything goes wrong, don't worry, the constitution will tell us what to do.......or will it?

Learn about the death of President William Henry Harrison, the first time a President died in office, and the forgotten constitutional crisis that followed, as well as a deep dive into the 25th Amendment that tried to correct those errors.

Rob gives Ray a lesson in the history of the all too brief Presidency of William Henry Harrison, the controversial elections that got him into office, The Curse of Tippecanoe, the gentleman's agreement between Eisenhower and Nixon, why it is difficult to invoke the 25th Amendment, the wisdom of Al Haig, and tons of The West Wing examples.

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TEAM:

Ray Hebel

Robert W Schneider

Mark Schroeder

Billy Recce

Daniel Schwartzberg

Gabe Crawford

Natalie DeSavia

ARTICLES

His Accidency

How The Shortest Presidency Spurred A Brief Constitutional Crisis

Public Announcement of Harrison's Death

Did William Henry Harrison Really Die of Pneumonia

Did Tecumseh's Curse Kill Seven Presidents

What Really Killed The First President To Die In Office

Remembering William Henry Harrison

25th Amendment: Three Questions

What Is The 25th Amendment

Who's In Charge?

Reagan Aides Once Raised The Possibility Of Invoking The 25th Amendment

AUDIO/VISUAL

AL HAIG 

Music and Sound Effects

Yankee Doodle

“Junkyard Tribe” and “Fife and Drum” by Kevin MacLeod

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Door Closing Sound Effects

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