commander in chief
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C: Maybe we should expect more from someone serving as president and commander in chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
But wars inevitably cost those who fight in them; ideally, the commander in chief would start them only after carefully weighing those costs.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Under the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act, if a president dies in office, the vice president immediately becomes president and commander in chief.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Mike Makowsky’s dramatic miniseries “Death by Lightning” faithfully preserves the stirring rhetoric of the man who would become America’s 20th commander in chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
It was the same process Washington had developed with his staff as commander in chief of the Continental Army, then implemented with his cabinet as president.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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