A government official is chosen as the designated survivor during high-profile political events to maintain the presidential ...

President Trump will speak to a joint session of Congress 9 p.m. March 4 but it won't be a State of the Union address.

Any time all three branches of government are at the same place at the same time, a 'designated survivor' stays away to maintain the line of succession ... the United States is already ...

Being the actual designated survivor brings extra adrenaline jolts and humbling thoughts about being unwittingly catapulted ...

Usually, a cabinet member who is in the line of succession for precedency ... all of a sudden, you’re president of the United States,” historian and journalist Garrett M.

Candidates in the presidential line of succession as one of the 15 cabinet ... of succession in the event the president of the United States becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, is unable to ...