Lincoln's embalmment

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(01-08-2015 05:25 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Toia, on the same thread I posted above (see post #20 ff - http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...age-2.html ) we once discussed the possibility of Lincoln's present day survival in case of instant appropriate medical care. I personally believe he would have had a good chance of survival.

IF 1865 were 2015 .... Abraham Lincoln might have survived, who knows. And he might have been able to think. But IF he had lived, he would according to me, at the very least been (partially or totally) blind, inarticulate or unable to speak, unsteady on his feet, numb in certain regions of his body, maybe paralyzed. No normal communication possible. Lincoln would have been disabled and incapacitated. That would have caused an even more chaotic situation, because in 1865 no provision existed for the VEEP or anyone else to take over as chief executive for an incapacitated president. In 1865 the Costitution contained provisions for the transfer of presidential power only when a president died. There were (until the 25th Amendement in 1967) no procedures by which an incapacitated president could be replaced.