Mr. Maryk has taken command. Mr. Keith, what do I do? That's - that's where I had them. Lt. Keith At 0300 he calls an officers' meeting in the wardroom. As he wrote in his 1965 book, “From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession,” the lawyers reached a consensus that the vice president shouldn’t be allowed to decide for himself whether his boss was disabled in part because of what happened in “The Caine Mutiny.” After executive officer Maryk told Captain Queeg he was a “sick man” and took over the ship, both Queeg and Maryk attempted to shout orders, causing confusion in a crisis. One day Willie gets a message from Roland, who is on the aircraft carrier Montauk, inviting Keefer and Willie to the carrier. That night, Willie cries for his lost friend. : They're all wearing their helmets. Queeg sits slouched at the head of the table, staring at nothing, with his whole body bobbing rhythmically as he rolls the steel balls. Feerick said the framers of the 25th Amendment specifically decided not to define “inability” or “disability” because of the possibility that they could fail to anticipate unforeseen scenarios, resulting in too narrow of a definition. Lt. Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. Check out our picks for movies that (hopefully) won't keep you up at night. | : That day the Caine leaves Ulithi to escort the damaged carriers to Guam. This is the ultimate insult to a man’s intelligence: the suggestion that his intelligence is gone.”, Sutherland went on to advocate for an independent body to make such a judgment about a president’s capabilities, warning against the vice president having the discretion to “crown himself.”. He had recently ordered a sweeping investigation into who ate a missing quart of strawberries from the kitchen, believing the apprehension of this strawberry thief was of singular importance. Commander Philip Francis Queeg And for more than 175 years nobody cared to answer those original questions — even after Woodrow Wilson, after suffering a stroke, was so ill during the last segment of his term that he did not meet with his cabinet for weeks as he hid the extent of his disability. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. : A captain's job is a lonely one. I've relieved you. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. Have a question about our comment policies? Quotes . ” . everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Caine Mutiny. The USS Caine was on the verge of foundering, nearly drowning in the waves of a typhoon in the middle of the Pacific, and Capt. Most recently, the anonymous “senior administration official” who authored the New York Times op-ed, professing “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” suggested there had been “whispers” within the cabinet about invoking the 25th Amendment against Trump, painting the president as incompetent and impetuous.