Napoleonrules
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But more to the point of this thread, what if JFK isn't wearing the back brace and only takes the first bullet in his back and through his trachea, and then falls into the car? How incapacitated is he? Would he have to resign and be seriously disabled for the rest of his life? If someone had a the same wound with today's technology would the rest of their life look much different?
As long as he can communicate in some fashion the methods of "forcing" a president to resign can get tricky, especially in 1963 before the 25th amendment was designed. There was no way to force him to resign and he hasn't committed a high crime or misdemeanor so you can't impeach him, and trying to tie a disability to an impeachable offence isn't very PC even in 1963 and the people would be disgusted. You can end up having a Roosevelt or Wilson situation going on with Jackie and the cabinet in charge. Wilson's VP Tom Marshall was the only one who came closest to having set a precedent for removal of a President for disability and it was murky that what Congress' joint session was preparing to do was Constitutional. If Johnson used his Congressional influence to follow in Marshall's footsteps and Congress went through with it this time... you could have the issue go to the Supreme Court.