25th amendment

After watching the West Wing i have decided to write about the 25th amendment. the 25th amendment is about how if the president is unable to do his duties he must sign a letter saying that the vice president is in charge. for example if the president is put under with anistesa he must sign a letter that puts the vice president in charge.
In the West Wing the president is shot and put under general anistesa. but he forgot one very important thing. he didn't sign the letter saying that the vice president took over. so for three whole hours there was no one in charge of the country. well you can see how bad this could be if someone had attacked us.
But the 25th has been used on several occations for example just recently Gorge Bush was put under anistesa to have a colonscopy. so he signed a letter that put Vice President Dick Cheney in charge untill he came out of it. this is a perfect example of how the 25th works.
The 25th Amendment provides two remedies when a president is disabled. 1. The president of his own volition may turn over the power of his office to the vice president. 2. The vice president, with the assent of a majority of the leading members of the cabinet, may make himself acting president on a temporary basis.
In 1985 President Reagan did not invoke the 25th Amendment, but he did at least seem to honor the intent of the law by notifying the leaders of Congress by letter that he was turning power over to the vice president. That a president can turn over his power without formally invoking the amendment is unclear and has never been tested in court. Oddly, Vice President Bush was not immediately informed about the letter giving him the power of the presidency.