According to Howling Wilderness, a number of successors did survive. They all dropped out for one reason or another until there weren't any more. The Joint Chiefs took over not because it would have been impossible to pick someone but because everyone in the legitimate chain was out of action by one means or another.
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“We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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