Daily Beast
Gil Troy 2/13/16
America's First Female President? Been There, Done That
OZY
Sorry, Hillary Clinton, but America has already had its first (acting) female president.
Three decades before Clinton was born, Edith Wilson, Woodrow Wilson’s
second wife, ran the Oval Office for 17 months. Nobody voted for her,
and she never actually referred to herself as president, but she did
take charge of many executive duties after her husband was left
incapacitated by a massive stroke.
Back then, the U.S. Constitution didn’t specify what to do if the
president was unable to fulfill his duties (it does now). There was no
mechanism in place for automatically transferring power to the vice
president. To further complicate matters, Wilson’s second-in-command was
an unambitious man named Thomas R. Marshall, who, even when Woodrow was
paralyzed, bedridden and suffering memory loss, vehemently refused to
assume the president’s duties for fear of assassination.
(Editor NOTE: There was no line of succession!)
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