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A designated survivor ( or designated successor ) is a member of the United States Cabinet who is appointed to be at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the President and the country's other top leaders ( e. g., Vice President and Cabinet members ) are gathered at a single location, such as during State of the Union addresses and presidential inaugurations.
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This is done so that, if the event is attacked and everyone else in the line of succession is killed, the " designated survivor " would become Acting President.
During the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, the Bush and Obama transition teams agreed to name Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the " designated survivor " and he was taken to a secure location instead of attending the ceremony.
On January 24, 2012 Secretary Vilsack was named the designated survivor by President Obama during the President's State of the Union address.
The University of Minnesota USA is testing various elms, including a huge now-patented century-old survivor known as " The St. Croix Elm ", which is located in a Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN suburb ( Afton ) in the St. Croix River valley — a designated National Scenic Riverway.
During Bush's 2004 State of the Union he was the designated survivor and spent the night in a secure undisclosed location.
Being the Secretary of the Interior, Salazar was the designated survivor for the 2011 State of the Union Address.
When President Bartlet is giving instructions to the one Cabinet member who is appointed the designated survivor during the State of the Union address, he asks the man if he has a best friend, if that friend is smarter than him, and if he could trust that friend with his life.
On January 20, 1989, he was the designated survivor at President Bush's inauguration.
** In the episode He Shall, from Time to Time ..., Josh is instructed to " pick a guy " ( referring to the designated survivor.
Were such an event to occur, killing both the President and Vice President, the surviving official highest in the line – possibly the designated survivor – would become the Acting President of the United States under the Presidential Succession Act.
The practice of naming a designated survivor originated during the Cold War amid fears of a nuclear attack.
The designated survivor is provided presidential-level security and transport for the duration of the event.
If such a legislative survivor were the sitting Speaker or President Pro Tempore – as for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 State of the Union addresses, in which President Pro Tempore Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ) or Sen. Robert Byrd ( D-West Virginia ) was also a designated survivor – he or she would become the acting president rather than the surviving Cabinet member.
For the 2010 State of the Union Address, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan was the designated survivor.
However, Secret Service rules prevented her from being named the designated survivor since it was public knowledge that she was at a conference in London during the event.
O ' Reilly began competing for the NWA Mississippi promotion, and won the vacant NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Championship ( also designated the NWA Southern Television Championship ) on June 5, 1999 in Grenada, eliminating the penultimate survivor, Big Don Brodie, to win a battle royal.
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* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
He had designated his nephew, Frederick von Staufen duke of Swabia, also known as Frederick II, Duke of Swabia as his successor.
In 1355 in Buda, Casimir designated Louis I of Hungary as his successor.
Henry's designated successor, Otto, was elected King in Aachen in 936.
On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.
Since 2007 Kuwait has been ruled by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah and his designated successor, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the prime minister and crown prince.
Originally Hitler's designated successor and the second highest ranking Nazi official.
Nichiren Shoshu believe that Nichiren designated five senior priests, and one successor, Nikko.
The present Sultan has no direct heir, and has not publicly designated a successor.
The latter refused on the grounds that their father had designated Orhan as sole successor, and that the empire should not be divided.
They believe Muhammad, before his death, designated Ali as his successor.
Gorazd, whom Methodius had designated as his successor, was not recognised by Pope Stephen V. The same Pope forbade the use of the Slavic liturgy and placed the infamous as Methodius ' successor.
The pre-existing notion of consortium imperii, the sharing of imperial power, and the notion that an associate to the throne was the designated successor ( possibly conflicting with the notion of hereditary claim by birth or adoption ), was to reappear repeatedly.
Hideyoshi's underaged son and designated successor Hideyori lost the power his father once held, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was declared Shogun following the Battle of Sekigahara.
* Toyotomi had two sons with Yodo, Tsurumatsu, who died young, and Hideyori born in 1593 who became the designated successor of Toyotomi.
Göring was at this time the second most powerful figure in the Nazi regime, having been given the special rank of Reichsmarschall and designated as Hitler's successor.
Rebellion of Marwan II against Yazid's designated successor Ibrahim, defeat of the loyalist forces under Sulayman ibn Hisham and accession of Marwan in December.
In return Sigismund designated him as his successor and granted him the title of a Margrave of Moravia in 1423.
* December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana, who is supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal.
On his deathbed, in the presence of only two witnesses, his nephew Frederick Barbarossa and the Bishop of Bamberg, he allegedly designated Frederick his successor, rather than his own surviving six-year-old son Frederick.
In the same month, at the 12th Plenum of the 8th Party Congress, Liu Shaoqi was " forever expelled from the Party ", and Lin Biao was made the Party's Vice-Chairman, Mao's " comrade-in-arms " and " designated successor ", his status and fame in the country was second only to Mao.
Owain had originally designated Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd as his successor.
Owain then designated Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd as his successor, but after his death Hywel was first driven to seek refuge in Ireland by Cristina's sons, Dafydd and Rhodri, then killed at the battle of Pentraeth when he returned with an Irish army.
The Earl of Lincoln, formerly the designated successor of the late King Richard III, joined the conspiracy against Henry VII.
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The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.
Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.
All information is carefully appraised and uncertain facts are designated by ( '?'.
It is designated as Stage 1 Residential on the Redevelopment Authority's master plan and will feature row houses, garden apartments, four small parks, schools, churches, a shopping center and several small clusters of stores.
The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.
; Assaulting a person designated under section 43 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005: This offence is created by section 51 ( 1 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.
Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman, Kirka or Krika, which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena, Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.
For aircraft with joint registration, one country is designated as the registration state for the purpose of the convention.
In spatial planning, Aalen is designated a Mittelzentrum (“ medium-level centre ”).
If two justices are appointed on the same day, the older is designated the senior Justice of the two.
In this regulatory scheme, every current polluting facility is given or may purchase on an open market an emissions allowance for each unit of a designated pollutant it emits.
In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher.
) For example, Aldebaran is designated α Tauri ( pronounced Alpha Tauri ), which means " Alpha of the Bull ".
Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.
British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).
The list of benzodiazepines approved for the treatment of insomnia is fairly similar among most countries, but which benzodiazepines are officially designated as first-line hypnotics prescribed for the treatment of insomnia can vary distinctly between countries.
Roughtor was the site of a medieval chapel of St Michael and is now designated as a memorial to the 43rd Wessex Division of the British Army.
Charles Hodge writes that " The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture " with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new creation, renewing of the mind, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to light .< ref name = Hodge1 > Hodge, Charles.
In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species ' names is L. In 1959, Carl Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens, which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.
Each numbered year is designated either H for Hijra or AH for the Latin anno Hegirae ( in the year of the Hijra ).
* A retirement community is designated and at least usually designed for retirees and seniors — often restricted to those over a certain age, such as 56.
It is designated as an illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland and as a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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