Talk:Hal Gardner

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Since the provisions of the 25th Amendment say that the Vice-President is to become president upon the removal of the President, and since it's guaranteed that Logan won't finish out his term, isn't it a given that Gardner will become president? Therefore, shouldn't we put that on this page? 208.29.10.202 13:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, unless the Powers That Be decide they want to do something else. They could still write Gardner out if they want (for instance, if Ray Wise decides not to return). We won't know for sure whether Gardner is the president until we see it on the show, so we've got what we do know at this point: Bill Buchanan thinks Gardner will be sworn in soon. --StBacchus 14:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, even if they were to say "Gardner will be sworn in at 7:05am", we still can't include it since the show ended at 7am. It's entirely possible that Gardner suffered a heart attack at 7:04am. All we can say is that Bill thinks Gardner will be sworn in. --Proudhug 15:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I think it's safe to assume that Gardner did serve as President, even though nothing was said about it. The 24-verse follows the conventions of U.S. Constitutional procedure, which means the Vice President becomes President if the President does not complete his term, but given the nature of 24, it is likely that Gardner's Presidency is a Presidency we'll never see on screen. Hypnometal 05:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, with much of 24, we often have to make leaps of assumption, and this is probably one of those situations. The original problem here, however, was that it hadn't happened yet, so we couldn't include it as having happened. Now, the time has passed and we've yet to be given a reason to assume it didn't happen, so we can include Bill's comment as assumed fact. --Proudhug 06:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll accept that.  :-) Hypnometal 06:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)