[justiceseeker93]

In ALL of the federal government, the NBC requirement applies to only ONE person: the President.

Not quite. The NBC requirement also applies to the Vice President, according to the last sentence of the Twelfth Amendment:

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.

[BP2]

> In ALL of the federal government, the NBC requirement
applies to only ONE person: the President.

>> Not quite. The NBC requirement also applies
>> to the Vice President

True. And that's a scary thought as well,
but I'd take stupid over EVIL.

With the exception of perhaps the SECDEF,
there's a little bit of BOTH on this list after Obama:

US Presidential line of succession after Obama

#	Office	Current Officer
1	Vice President and President of the Senate	Joe Biden
2	Speaker of the House of Representatives	Nancy Pelosi
3	President pro tempore of the Senate	Robert Byrd
4	Secretary of State	Hillary Rodham Clinton
5	Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner
6	Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates
7	Attorney General	Eric Holder
8	Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar
9	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack
10	Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke
11	Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis
12	Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius
13	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan
14	Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood
15	Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu
16	Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan
17	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki
18	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano