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Right, but it doesn't make you ineligible to run for president, does it? It's just a removal procedure.
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25th amendment section 4 can be used as a back door impeachment and conviction.
If you have the votes, then skip a trial and declare the President unfit to serve.
But that’s not the intent of the amendment.
Not surprisingly, no such removal or disability provision exists for Senators etc.
Fetterman had a stroke and recovered and now is a different person and politician
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Succession and disability
It was ratified in 1967!
Maybe it had more to do with JFK assassination than Woodrow in 1920.
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The 25th amendment was passed in response to Woodrow Wilson and his wife.
Woodrow suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919 - he was incapacitated his last 18 months in office so the First Lady decided she is now in charge of the Oval Office and west wing. A de facto President while her husband was incapacitated physically and mentally