About this Issue: In the current phase of his decades-old work in shaping the institution of the Presidency, Lyndon LaRouche is not only weaving together the institution of the next Presidency for after the scheduled 2016 elections, - for which Martin O'Malley is so far the only qualified prospective candidate on the horizon. Much more immediately, Obama's hand must be removed from the nuclear button now, if a likely war of nuclear extermination is to be avoided long before that next scheduled Presidential election. A transitional Presidency must begin to wield power immediately now. This issue of EIR is devoted to developing and elaborating the principles for that transition, as Lyndon LaRouche has pointed to them in organizing it.