Woodrow Wilson

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what the press called ‘the Secret President.’ In her memoirs, she defended herself, saying “I studied every paper sent from the different Secretaries or Senators and tried to digest and present in tabloid form the things that, despite my vigilance, had to go to the President. I, myself, never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs. The only decision that was mine was what was important and what was not, and the very important decision of when to present matters to my husband.”

Deciding what was important did not seem to Edith Wilson an arrogation of powers, but it finally occurred to Congress that it just might be and in 1965 the Twenty-fifth Amendment was passed. It spells out in detail how to determine if and when a president is incapacitated and what to do in the event.

Curiously, the determination of presidential disability can be a bit convoluted. Disability is declared if the Vice President and a majority of cabinet officers inform the ...

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