...Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that...to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. SEC. 4. Whenever the...

...Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that...to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. SECTION 4. Whenever...

...declares in writing that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties-of his office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. This section authorizes the President to announce his own inability and allows him to do so, knowing...

...resignation or removal of the President. My resolution provides that the President may himself proclaim that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office and that when he does so, the Vice President shall succeed him as Acting President. It also provides that...

...Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that...to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. SEC. 4. Whenever the...

...Congress announce that he has an inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as acting President. "'(b) If the President does not so announce but the Vice President or person next in line of succession...

...declare in writing that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his Office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. Here I might interpolate the point sometimes overlooked, that the President may be en route abroad...

...provides that "whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President."...

...provides that "whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President."...

...that because of illness or any exceptional circumstance, to be determined solely by the President, he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and so on. However, since brevity should be the cardinal rule of constitutional language, we can make that...