Talk:Designated survivor

message: Who is it this year?
Fascinating! The kind of trivia that makes it all worth it for a encyclopedia-nut!!—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 10:34, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
How is the designated survivor chosen? United States presidential line of succession says that it's done at random, but is this really true, and if so who conducts the random selection and by what means? I would have thought they just agree it amongst themselves based on more practical considerations, but in any case we need a source. — Trilobite (Talk) 20:30, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Selection

message: Media guff at the time suggested the procedure applied for Ronald Reagan's state funeral.  Truth or hyperbole? Joestynes 17:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Likely hyperbole. Unless every other member of the Cabinet were at the funeral, this would've been unnecessary. It's possible, though. --BDD (talk) 20:26, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Reagan funeral

message: Does anyone know if this rule is also to do with the Supreme Court members? minnesotajohn29 24, June 2007
:The Supremes don't need an emergency continuity plan; they can be replaced as needed as soon as there's a president and a Senate capable of confirming appointments. - JasonAQuest (talk) 21:31, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Supreme Court

message: Why are several Senators/Reps. listed for 2005 and 2006? They appear to have no place in the presidential line of succession. Rmhermen 18:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the intro paragraphs mentions how Congress designates its own survivors so that the United States won't be completely without a legislature in the event of a catastrophe.  —Cleared as filed. 22:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, one of the Senators, Ted Stevens, actually is ahead of the cabinet designated survivor in the line of succession.  He is the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate. — Scm83x talk  22:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sen. and Rep.

message: Is this custom of having a designated survivor due to the Gunpowder Plot in the British Parliament?  The article doesn't say.  I'd modify it but I don't know this for sure, so I thought I'd throw it in here.
:I'm almost certain that it was more to do with the Cold War. In any case, given the multitudinous lines of succession (to the Crown), its very likely that there would be someone not far away who could take over. 68.39.174.238 04:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gunpowder Plot

message: On 24 January 2007 editor 207.188.199.227, a known vandal, added information that I am pretty positive is incorrect.  The Speaker of the House comes after the Vice-President in the order of succesion.  This information needs to be checked or deleted as unsourced. Simesa 17:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Information

message: With the upcoming Obama inaugural, I would like to know how the designated survivor is chosen. The article does not mention a situation like this. ABC101090 (talk) 15:43, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What about Inaugurals

message: The article say “Since 2005, members of Congress have also served as designated survivors. In addition to serving as a rump legislature in the event that all of their colleagues were killed, a surviving Representative and Senator could ascend to the offices of Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate”
According to Article One of the United States Constitution, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate each need a quorum of a simple majority of their respective members to do business. The Senate has the additional requirement in Rule VI of its standing rules of a "majority of the members duly chosen and sworn.”  If they do not have a quorum they cannot conduct business, so there cannot be a Rump Legislature nor can they ascend to the offices of Speaker of the House or President Pro Tempore of the Senate.--Lord Don-Jam (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rump Legislature?

message: While a reference might be appropriate, I think that instead a hatnote would work better and having that hat note at the end of the list, instead of with the references.Naraht (talk) 13:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clinton for 2010 

message: I've noticed that this article is majorly flawed. I hoped to fix this in the coming days. 
Simmons123456 6:24 31 July 2015  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simmons123456 (talk • contribs) 10:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No explanation of any kind as to what the flaws are. (The user also never came back to "fix" it.) 2603:8000:B600:4000:85B0:FE21:A40F:6898 (talk) 06:55, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major flawed article  

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message: I found this quote on http://uspolitics.about.com/od/antiterrorism/fl/Who-is-the-Designative-Survivor-During-the-State-of-the-Union-Address.htm: "The designated survivor, also jokingly referred to as the “Doomsday Successor" [...]." Would that term be worth mentioning in the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.59.83 (talk) 22:58, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that was intended as a joke.  I don't think about.com is a reliable source, but if it shows up more authoritatively elsewhere, it would be worth adding. TJRC (talk) 19:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doomsday Survivor 

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message: The TV show Designated Survivor depicts two survivors; one from each political party. I realize it's fiction but is it fiction based on fact or artistic license to further an already unbelievable premise? Just curious! ―Buster7 ☎  18:20, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: TV Show

message: My guess is that other governments have designated survivors in certain situations but that we don't know about it. Otherwise, this would be a series of pages on Wikipedia, not a one-off. The lack of information about how the US designated survivor is chosen is troubling to me. If the designated survivor is chosen by persons close to the President, then that kind of sets up a Caligula-Claudius-Praetorian Guard type scenario. Hope we can get some clarification on this page. Geographyinitiative (talk) 05:25, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only one on Earth? 

message: I think the main table listing the names needs a fairly prominent discussion of the source, or explanation of where this table is being compiled from.   Right now the table is just presented as is, no explanation of how these names were inferred.   For such a core aspect of the entire page, it is not backed up at all.   For example, if I wanted to verify any particular row was true, how would I do it? 
Supernova87a (talk) 02:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing main table