Donald Trump’s speech: Do you know US president has successor if tragic event occurs? What designated survivor means
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Donald Trump’s speech: Do you know US president has successor if tragic event occurs? What designated survivor means

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US President Donald Trump delivered the first joint congressional address of his second presidency on Tuesday night. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins was the "designated survivor" this year, a White House official told US media. The concept of designated survivor combines the people's inherent fascination with danger and the romance of an “everyman” being thrust into the presidency. The first time that a Cabinet member being kept away from a presidential speech to Congress was publicly divulged was President Ronald Reagan’s Education Secretary Terrel Bell in 1981. Here's presidential line of succession Doug Collins, who was confirmed as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on February 4, was this year's designated survivor.

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From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being a designated survivor is like
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From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being a designated survivor is like

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WASHINGTON — They start the day often as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. It also enhances your prayer that it doesn’t happen to you,” James Nicholson, who was President George W. Bush’s veterans affairs secretary and designated survivor during the 2006 State of the Union, said of possibly becoming president after a cataclysmic event. “The idea of, you’re just a random Cabinet …

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