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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
actually, you're wrong.
President Gerald Ford was Speaker of the House when Nixon resigned. Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew had already resigned and did not have a VP during that period.
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Not quite how it happened. Ford was nominated to VP and confirmed in late 1973 and ascended to POTUS with Nixons resignation in August 1974.
So a Speaker has never immediately ascended to the POTUS position.
In today's world that would be like Pence resigning and Trump appointing a replacement, which obviously wouldn't be Pelosi.
So I stand my statement that there is no major concern based on precedent alone.