George H W Bush dies in office, what happens?

Well, that's at the very end of his reign anyway, so I'd say there'd be very little effect on American politics at all.
 
If he dies before January 20,1993 then the Vice President Quayle becomes President until the next President takes the oath of Office.
The same holds if President GHW Bush dies earlier. The only difference means that there will have to be a new vice President selected by Quayle and approved by the congress.
 
If he dies before January 20,1993 then the Vice President Quayle becomes President until the next President takes the oath of Office.
The same holds if President GHW Bush dies earlier. The only difference means that there will have to be a new vice President selected by Quayle and approved by the congress.

Dan Quayle president...that's scary
 
A Dan Quayle presidency has potential to be really quite interesting, and not just in the cliched comic relief sense. Quayle was, we forget, really quite the right-wing radical: very hawkish on foreign policy (that was his platform in his ill-fated 2000 presidential run), a family steeped in the more unfashionable trends of American conservatism, and his wife was a strict evangelical before evangelicalism was cool. Hendrik Hertzberg did a very good profile on him in 1988. His essential insight was that, if H W Bush did die:

For a while, Quayle would perform as he performed in the debate, fearful of ignoring the instructions of his programmers. But as President Quayle gained confidence, the struggle between the Republican moderates and the ideological hard right, formerly assumed to have been settled in the moderates' favour by the nomination and election of Bush, would flare up again...The instincts of the vain and unreflective young president would begin to reassert themselves.

On the foreign policy side, out of favour right-wingers who had been careful to praise Quayle during the post-convention days when everybody else was damning him -- Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Adelman -- would ascend to glory. On the domestic side, on-the-shelf 'cultural conservatives' such as William Bennett and Gary Bauer would stage a similar comeback...

...conflict between the White House and the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate would escalate to red alert. In 1992 President Quayle would run for a full term as the feisty Midwestern underdog giving 'the do-nothing, blame-America-first 102 Congress' hell.

I've excised some of the more out-of-date predictions -- this was 1988, after all, and he was trying to make a point, not history -- but I think that might be the basic shape of it. A doctrinaire, politically inept presidency that divides the Republican Party, extends Cold War ideological conflicts further into the 1990s, and probably ends in electoral defeat.
 
That seems to be a good method to prevent against assasination: get a wack-job for a VP.
 
At the most Dan Quayle would be President for three weeks. This changes nothing that Ï can see. Oh yeah, breaking William Henry Harrison and three, instead of two, President who should not be ranked.
 
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