the 25th Amendment provides for an orderly succession if the president is rendered incapable of serving. But that sets up a palace coup.

So said radio host and fiction writer John Batchelor. In this 1994 interview he talks about his novel Father's Day, which imagines a constitutional crisis borne of the 25th Amendment.
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