Talk:Fiction regarding United States presidential succession

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[edit] Battlestar Galactica

User:Husnock removed the section I added on Battlestar Galactica on the grounds that it "doesnt belong on this article...article is about U.S. Presidential succession". I contend that it does in fact belong in the article since (as is often the case in Science Fiction) the events and political system portrayed reflect and discuss issues pertaining to the real US form of government. Science fiction is often used as a way to set up premises where controversial issues from reality can be examined from a different angle, and many of the events in Battlestar Galactica certainly treat issues that the real US government has dealt with in the recent years. Indeed, the authors of the 2003 BSG series have said in interviews that many of the events in BSG are inspired by real events in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA. Really, treating this subjcet from a science fiction point of view is not very different from the other fictional settings (after all, the events and people in question are equally fictional, in BSG it's just that the name of the country is also changed). TH 23:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

  • While you have some good points, the very point of this article is to list novels, films, and television which give fictional accounts of the United States presidential succession procedures. Clearly, Battlestar Galactica is not set in the United States. The rules of U.S. Presidential succession in no way apply. And, if this edit is allowe din, then the article could be filled with non-U.S. references such as those from Buck Rogers and Star Trek, both of which have had mateiral about presidential succession. So, this is not appropriate for this article any more than info about succession of the President of Mexico would be. Indeed, your own edit opens up with "Although not set in the United States..." Its a good bit of info, but it simply doesnt belong here. Maybe start a new article like "Fiction regarding Presidential Succession" or "President (Battlestar Galactica)". Thats my thoughts. -Husnock 23:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
If I created a new article for "Fiction regarding Presidential Succession", I'd argue that it should also include the material from this page in any case. How about moving this article to "Fiction regarding Presidential Succession"? It would make the article broader, currently its subject is quite narrow. The counter argument could be that the resulting article might be too large, but my feeling is that most fiction about presidential succession is about the US anyway, so the article probably won't even double in size. TH 08:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Lampoon

There was a satire in National Lampoon magazine once that some low level cabinet member in the Nixon administration decided to move up to the Presidency by eliminating all of the people ahead of him in the line of succession. He supposedly organized VP Agnew's bribery scandal and Nixon's Watergate scandal. If anyone can find out more details on this story it should be mentioned in this article. MK2 06:03, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

A comment at the Daily Kos [1] says the object of the satire was Claude Stout Brinegar. --Mathew5000 20:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

The "In fiction" section at Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution should be merged in this article. The 25th Amendment is entirely about presidential succession, so fiction relating to the 25th amendment always relates (at least indirectly) to presidential succession. --Mathew5000 20:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)