Huh?
In a normal transition the White House staff plans ahead and manages to move the outgoing president out and the incoming president in over the course of just a few hours. Most everything is done during the hours of the inauguration ceremony and ensuing celebrations.
I don’t know if it would be considered improper for the staff to conduct preplanning in advance of an impeachment vote. Might be a bit presumptuous having moving trucks pulled up to the White House as we watch the impeachment vote take place. So I suspect, from a practical standpoint, that moving the stuff out might take longer than moving the person out. Still a day or two tops and it should all be done.
Why on Earth couldn’t he?
I agree. Harry Hopkins moved into the White House when Franklin Roosevelt was President.
Barack Obama’s mother-in-law moved into the White House to help look after the daughters.
”AS WELL AS” occasional guests, not “AS” occasional guests.
That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t reverse his opinion if it suited him to do so.
When Tramp rips off his humanoid mask to reveal the insect insect inside, the Mole People will come for him. I read that somewhere.
Pure speculation, but I think the relevant decision maker would be the White House Chief of Staff. There are several things that need to be done quickly if a US President suddenly departs office. And there are almost surely plans for those things - presidential assassination is still a real risk. But as for removal from the White House, the Chief of Staff would probably ask the ex-President how he wanted to handle it, but also establish a timetable and boundaries. Most of the White House would probably be off-limits - the two exceptions being the Presidential offices and the Residence. The ex-President would probably be permitted to say goodbye to staff, have a couple of meetings related to the transition, and retrieve any personal items from the Oval Office, all presuming he wanted to, but I imagine he’d be given a day at most to do so. After that, he’d be restricted to the residence and given a clear expectation that he needed to leave as soon as possible. Pack what you need, and the cleaners will send the rest afterwards.
As for the new President? Switching bedrooms is probably well down his extensive list of things he needs to get done.
So while Nixon was in the air and Ford was in Washington getting sworn in…where was that one Secret Service agent who carries the briefcase with the “football” (nuclear launch codes)?
On the one hand …
I would presume that there are two or more footballs at all times so that there is a backup in case something happened to the main one. So one could have gone with Nixon and the other kept behind to be around Ford after the swearing in. The Nixon one would be sent back on the return flight of the momentarily former AF1.
But …
People were seriously concerned about Nixon acting crazy in his last days. The football may have been “forgotten” as he was flown off the White House lawn.
Normally, at the transition point, both the old and new Presidents are in the same location. Even with the JFK->LBJ one, LBJ went to Parkland Hospital and was there when JFK died. The football (which was a new thing then) was then following LBJ around, including his flight back to DC. The fact that JFK was killed on a trip with LBJ accompanying him resulted in no problem then.
But one wonders what the procedure would be if PotUS died at a location far from the Veep. It would seem to me that instead of the two scenarios given above, that there could be a football at least in the general vicinity of the Veep at all times to ensure an uninterrupted chain of possession of the codes and such.
The situation of an impeachment vote removing the Prez while the Veep is not near the former would be akin to the death-of-PotUS situation.