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| Abe Lincoln, George Washington, FDR, and some polls say Ronald Reagon. |
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| Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, and depending on who you ask, Jimmy Carter and/or Bill Clinton. |
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| Constitutional powers of president |
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| leading our military as Commander-in-Chief; negotiating treaties; making appointments; enforcing the law; vetoing legislation and calling Congress into special session; and the pardon power |
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| Institutional powers of president |
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| Chief of State, chief diplomat, chief administrator, chief legislator, manager of the economy, leader of their political party, and shaper of public opinion |
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| Whats the greatest check on presidential power. |
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| How the president is impeached. |
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| First the House of Representatives must vote Articles of Impeachment, which are in effect “counts” in the political “indictment” of the President.The passage of one or more of these articles triggers a trial in the U.S. Senate, in which the House acts as prosecutor and the Senate as the jury, with the whole process traditionally overseen by the Chief Justice of the U.S. The Senate must vote to convict on each article, with two-thirds of the Senators present needed to convict and remove a President from office. |
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| Two presidents that were impeached and tried but not found guilty. |
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| Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton |
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| How presidents exert powers |
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| under Executive Orders, Executive Agreements, and Executive Privilege. |
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| issued directing the employees of the Executive Branch to change rules or policies. These actions affect only the Executive Branch and can be found unconstitutional. |
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| reached between the President and foreign leaders. These have an affect similar to a treaty. These agreements are in effect only so long as honored by sitting or future Presidents, and can be rescinded. |
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| definitely established as a presidential power in the 1974 Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Nixon (the Watergate Tapes case) which said the privilege exists, but did not set any boundaries on its use except to say the President cannot withhold evidence that could be used in a criminal trial proceeding. Privilege covers all presidential conversations, memos, phone conversations, emails, letters, etc. with their advisors or other government leaders. |
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| Two model of organzing the White House |
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| The wheel which is favored by the democrats and the pyramid which is favored by the republicans. |
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| begins with the Spanish-American War and the presidency of William McKinley. McKinley became the first of many Presidents to take advantage of changes in communications technology to help him make decisions when be instituted the “War Room” in the White House to process battlefield reports from the war. McKinley is the first President to use a telephone regularly. |
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| First president and the best president on the radio. |
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| Calvin Coolidge was the first president with a radio. FDR used the radio the best. |
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| First and best president on the tv. |
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| Truman was the first to use the tv. JFK and Reagon were the best. |
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| Presidents track their “favorability” in the polls, usually expressed as the President’s “job approval rating.” Presidents sometimes say they don’t pay attention to the polls when making decisions, but every President since JFK has paid for weekly polling. |
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| Who gave the first in-person State of the Union Address? |
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| Woodrow Wilson and it is now the biggest speech presidents give. |
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| First professional speech writer |
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| First professional pollster paid by White House |
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| Executive Office of the President |
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| Active – Positive presidents |
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| they like being President and try to do a lot with the position (Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, FDR) |
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| Active – Negative Presidents |
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| they don’t enjoy being President, but still try to do a lot (Johnson, Truman, Taft) |
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| Passive – Positive Presidents |
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| they are content to let others make many decisions, but really enjoy being President (Reagan, Eisenhower 1st term, George H. W. Bush) |
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| Passive – Negative Presidents |
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| they let others make decisions, and don’t enjoy the presidency much (Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Eisenhower 2nd term, Bush?) |
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