So the Capital building has just been destroyed by bombs. So they put all the important people left in the Whitehouse? Don't you think maybe that might be the next target? Don't you think it more likely that they'd lock down and evacuate DC and move the New President and family away from DC?
sharePlease learn what a plot hole is. This isn't one.
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I was thinking some kind of bunker at the White House or Camp David or that place in Nebraska.
shareGranted it wasn't a plot hole, but it was in first thing that came into my head that late at night. What I also know is that LBJ recited the oath of the president on Air Force 1. So while the optics of the oath being taken in the WH is useful it's not needed. The difference here Is that after 9/11 our government was intact. No one on the line of succession was killed and I don't believe any elected official or cabinet member was killed.
So what we have here is keeping safe the last person who could be president without a constitutional crisis and he's being paraded around in a potential bomb zone. That is bad writing to me.
Granted it wasn't a plot hole, but it was in first thing that came into my head that late at night. What I also know is that LBJ recited the oath of the president on Air Force 1.
So what we have here is keeping safe the last person who could be president without a constitutional crisis and he's being paraded around in a potential bomb zone. That is bad writing to me.
That was in 1963, at the very beginning of media-run presidencies and in the middle of the Cold War. You couldn't get away with that now. Just think of the message it would send--"Hi, I'm the new President of the United States and I'm taking office on a military plane, surrounded by soldiers." Praetorian Guard, much?
That crossed my mind too after Maggie Q's character mentioned "this could just be the beginning".
While the White House is very secure, so was the Capitol and that didn't stop the bad guys from blowing it up.
In reality, the Designated Survivor wouldn't have even been in DC, in the event of a massive nuclear strike. I mean, the guy is the potential President and he is looking out his window at the Capitol building, which is on fire!
They likely would have moved him to a secure location (one of the command and control bunkers in Virginia or Maryland), Camp David or to Offut AFB in Nebraska, or some other location.
They would NOT have taken him back to the White House until the attack was sorted out and they could be sure that DC was safe.
Major plot hole.
It was a ploy designed to show strength a hey look you blew up the capital with the president but hey look WE GOT ANOTHER PRESIDENT You did nothing the government will go on business as usual . I believe its also stated that its important for them to do a show of strength and by having the president in the white house that shows strength so really no plot hole.
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And a decapitations trike was attempted the night Lincoln was shot and killed. At the same time, the Vice President and Secretary of State were attacked but survived. If the Vice President would also have been killed that night, there would have been no constitutional successor to the presidency, as the list was only one deep until the ratification of the 25th amendment in 1965.
shareAbraham Lincoln was shot about a century and a half ago. That is not much of an example since technology has improved drastically since then.
shareYou are right, they would not gather everyone together and especially not such a likely place as the Whitehouse.
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