CONTENTS

Opening statement of Hon. Estes Kefauver, a U.S. Senator from Ten-
nessee, chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.

Texts of-

Senate Joint Resolution 28..

Senate Joint Resolution 35.

Senate Joint Resolution 84..

Federal constitutional and statutory provisions governing presidential in-

ability

Statement of-

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Hansen, Richard H., attorney at law, Lincoln, Nebr

Katzenbach, Nicholas de B., Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Depart-

ment of Justice, Washington, D.Č..

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Keating, Hon. Kenneth B., a U.S. Senator from the State of New York

(S.J. Res. 35) _ .

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Koch, Robert A., member of the Committee on Federal Legislation of

the Association of the Bar of the City of New York..

Powell, Lewis F., Jr., president-elect nominee, American Bar Associa-

tion of Richmond, Va..

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Taylor, Martin, chairman, Committee on Federal Constitution, New

York State Bar Association, New York, N.Y.....

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Wyman, Louis C., a Representative in Congress from the First Con-

gressional District of the State of New Hampshire.

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Statement submitted by-

Hruska, Hon. Roman L., a U.S. Senator from the State of Nebraska

(S.J. Res. 84) __

Exhibits-

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Exhibit No. 1: Report of the Bar of the City of New York on the

problem of presidential inability, approved May 8, 1962-

Exhibit No. 2: Press release, dated August 10, 1961, from the White

House, regarding procedures adopted between President John F.

Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, with regard to

presidential inability...

Exhibit No. 3: Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States,

dated August 2, 1961, regarding presidential inability.

Exhibit No. 4: Excerpts from the book, "Six Crises," by former

Vice President Richard M. Nixon, discussing presidential inability,

pages 178 to 180 (1962)

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Exhibit No. 5: Letter dated June 21, 1963, to Hon. Estes Kefauver

by Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., president, American Bar Association,

American Bar Center, Chicago, Ill. -

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