Reply #14: As I said, Constitutionally.....

[suston96]

...Haig was incorrect.

Administratively, and de facto, he was "in charge here" at the White House.

It would have taken some time to crank in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Minutes? Hours? All those steps in the Twenth-Fifth, especially Section 4, take time. And....

....the Vice president was in an airplane and on his way back. The secretary of State was in the house - the White House - and he did what he should have done - take charge.

He wasn't doing any ridiculous power grab. He was a military man who knows the meaning of chain of command. Maybe he should have paid more attention to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment - you know, the one that practically no one understands, and next to the Twenty-Second, the stupidest amendment in the Constitution.

So stupid that it has given rise to a number of ludicrous movies and teleplays where the plots actually include a number of variations of that "power grab."