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The US Constitution provides instructions for how to remove a president from office if they are unfit to do their job—gravely wounded, for example, or mentally unstable. The instructions were ratified as an amendment in 1967, after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Until that point, the Constitution just vaguely referred to the fact that a president could be removed for “Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of said Office.”When can the 25th amendment be invoked for an unfit president? Whenever the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet are ready to do so. One anonymous “senior official” wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that Cabinet members were afraid of “precipitat[ing] a constitutional crisis” by invoking the amendment, and instead chose to lie to the president and disobey him instead. But invoking the 25th amendment would not be a constitutional crisis, a problem in government that the Constitution cannot solve. It does not say when a president is unfit to se...

The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced By MATTHEW HICKLEY Last updated at 00:13 10 November 2007 Published:  10 November 2007 When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders. That is the theory. Or, rather,  was  the theory. The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced By MATTHEW HICKLEY Last updated at 00:13 10 November 2007  Published: 10 November 2007 When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technic...