Jill Lepore
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The things people want to do with constitutional amendments, they're like, nobody's going to win.
No one's going to look good.
It's going to be bad.
But he starts holding hearings on things.
I'll hold a hearing.
Let's hold a hearing.
I mean, that's a little bit later.
He's basically gets through four constitutional amendments in that decade.
And he also is significantly responsible for getting the Equal Rights Amendment out to the states.
And it's so he would say he would have said.
One of his great accomplishments was the 25th Amendment, which makes provisions for presidential disability.
So Eisenhower had like two heart attacks and then also a surgery.
Then Kennedy was shot.
People were like, what do we do?
You know, what if what if Johnson had also been shot in Texas or in Dallas that day in November of 1963?
So the 25th Amendment is sort of presidential succession and provisions for if a president becomes incapable of executing the office.