Unit IV Executive Branch

I. President & Vice President

Qualifications Term Vice President Native Born 35 yrs old U.S. resident 14 yrs Term 4 yrs 2 term limit – 22nd Amendment Vice President Take over for President President of the Senate http://www.termlimits.org/Current_Info/22nd-Amendment-text.html

DC 2014

Presidential Succession Vice President Speaker of the House President Pro Tempore Cabinet members (oldest to newest) 25th Amendment If President cannot serve & Vice President takes over, he nominates new Vice President http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html

Nixon Pres. Agnew VP resigns tax evasion Nixon nominates Ford Nixon resigns (Watergate) Ford takes over & nominates Rockefeller VP http://www.watergate.info/

Nixon & Agnew Ford Rockefeller

II. Powers & Roles of the President Influence legislation State of the Union address Budget for the U.S. Veto power Judicial Powers Appoints members to Federal Courts Grants pardons, reprieves

Chief of State Commander in Chief Symbol Political party leader State Dept Defense Dept Joint Chiefs of Staff CIA National Security Council

Foreign Policy Leader Military powers Treaty-making powers Peace – Japan, Germany Alliance – NATO, ANZUS, OAS Commercial & trade – GATT protective tariff balance of trade http://www.oas.org/ http://www.awm.gov.au/korea/origins/anzus/anzus.htm http://www.nato.int/ http://www.natlaw.com/treaties.htm

Chief Diplomat Diplomacy – personal, summit conference Diplomatic recognition Ambassadors Pres. Ulysses S. Grant greeting a Japanese delegation in the White House March 23, 1872

III. Executive Support Executive Office of the President Cabinet Council of economic advisors Office of management & budget Press secretary Cabinet Executive departments (15) Secretary, attorney general

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html Attorney General Agencies 1.Independent NASA CIA 2.Regulatory a. FCC b. EPA c. CPSC d. Fed. Reserve Sys. Attorney General Eric Holder http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

IV. Debate, Consensus, Compromise, Negotiation Resolving conflict Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt Corollary, Good Neighbor Policy Both Monroe Doctrine & Good Neighbor Policy was designed to keep European influence out of Central & South America Wilson, League of Nations (WWI) Truman Doctrine – Berlin, Korea (spread of communism)

Kennedy – Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis Johnson Nixon Ford Johnson, Nixon, & Ford were tied to Vietnam Carter – Iran Hostages Reagan – Lebanon, Libya, Granada George H. W. Bush – Kuwait, Panama Clinton – Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo George W. Bush – Afghanistan, Iraq

U.S. Presidents 1st - George Washington 2nd – John Adams 3rd – Thomas Jefferson 4th – James Madison 5th – James Monroe 6th – John Quincy Adams

7th – Andrew Jackson 8th – Martin Van Buren 9th – William H. Harrison 10th – John Tyler 11th – James K. Polk 12th – Zachary Taylor 13th – Millard Fillmore 14th – Franklin Pierce 15th – James Buchanan

16th – Abraham Lincoln 17th – Andrew Johnson 18th – Ulysses S. Grant 19th – Rutherford B. Hayes 20th – James A. Garfield 21st – Chester A. Arthur 22nd – Grover Cleveland 23rd – Benjamin Harrison 24th – Grover Cleveland

25th – William McKinley. 26th – Theodore Roosevelt. 27th – William H 25th – William McKinley 26th – Theodore Roosevelt 27th – William H. Taft 28th – Woodrow Wilson 29th – Warren G. Harding 30th – Calvin Coolidge 31st – Herbert C. Hoover 32nd – Franklin D. Roosevelt 33rd – Harry S. Truman

34th – Dwight D. Eisenhower. 35th- John F. Kennedy. 36th – Lyndon B 34th – Dwight D. Eisenhower 35th- John F. Kennedy 36th – Lyndon B. Johnson 37th – Richard M. Nixon 38th – Gerald R. Ford 39th – James E. Carter, Jr. 40th – Ronald W. Reagan 41st – George H.W. Bush 42nd – William J. Clinton

43rd – George W. Bush 44th- Barack Obama