Adopted on February 10, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for the Vice President to become Acting President in certain situations. Highly likely to be applied at some point in a drama in which the President is a major character, mostly for reasons of the Rule of Drama—in reality, the Amendment has only been applied six times. Of these, three had to do with the debacle that was the Nixon presidency and three had to do with the health of the Presidential