ORDER OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION:
The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John Ashcroft
Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Melquiades Rafael Martinez
Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshiro Mineta
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
Secretary of Education Roderick Paige
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi
Constitutionally, Congress is to decide who is next beyond this point.
I don't think you need to worry about Tommy running the country (assuming you meant other than the subtle way he's trying to do so now).
ORDER OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION:
The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
"Today, my dear friends and colleagues, I rise not as President pro tempore of the Senate, the House of Lords, this grand and great cloud of hoary witnesses to glory uncommon, but as your President, your great white father, Commander in chief, yea, the Big Man.
And I am reminded of my humble but honest beginnings in the coal mines of West Virginia, or "Byrdland" as one of my marvelous and wise constituents has called it...
And that brings to mind my little dog Sweet Potato, and my little cat "Pork and Beans" and the sight of a small, hungry child doing his chores in his humble Pappy's cabin that sat upon the smoking ruin of a mine long rendered unfit by the men in the tall, black hats...
President Byrd. It might have a funny side to it.