Note C8-222 — Chapter VIII · The Protection of the President
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Even in the failure of the House and the Senate to agree, in 1902, as to whether this “line of duty” element was a constitutional requisite to covering officers in the line of succession, there was agreement in conference that this test need not be applied in the case of the President or Vice President, 36 Cong. Rec. 2407 (1902).