1. Warm Up Who becomes president if the president dies in office?
Who becomes president if both the president and v.p. become deceased?
Opinion: What has been one of the most significant presidential contribution in our history?
Vice President
Speaker of the House

2. Presidential Powers Civics Standard 12.4
Learning Goal: I will identify the presidential powers by listing examples.

3. I. Executive Powers
Executive Order: directive, rule, or order that has the effect of a law
Appoints cabinet
Senate approves cabinet

4. Executive Order 9066

5. Notice of Removal

6. Newspaper Headline

7. Desert Internment Camp

8. II. Diplomatic Powers
Treaty: formal agreement between 2 or more countries & requires 2/3 approval from the senate
Negotiated by Sec of State
Executive Agreement: a pact between Pres and head of foreign gov’t
1. Does not require Senate approval

9. Treaty of Versailles

10. The Treaty of Versailles, 1919

11. Reagan and Gorbachev at their first (of four) summit meetings
Reagan and Gorbachev at their first (of four) summit meetings.They ended up becoming close friends, and peacefully ending the Cold War.

12. III. Military Powers Commander in chief
War Powers Resolution, 1973: w/in 48 hours of sending troops the President must report to Congress about the reasons
1. Came out of Vietnam

13. US president Lyndon B. Johnson

14. USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin

15. Marine gunner John Wilson, shouldering a rocket launcher, was part of a Marines reconnaissance  force. He was killed in action twelve days later.

16. IV. Legislative Powers Options Sign it Veto it
Allow it to become law by NOT acting w/in 10 days
Pocket veto: doesn’t act w/in 10 days but in the meantime Congress adjourns => bill dies

17. V. Judicial Powers
Reprieve: postponement of the execution of a sentence
Pardon: legal forgiveness of a crime
1. Ex., Ford pardoned Nixon
Commutation: reduce the length of a sentence or a fine imposed by a court
Amnesty: a general pardon offered to a group of law violators

18. “I am NOT a crook”

19. “Impeach Nixon”

20. immigration

21. Lethal Injection

22. Electric Chair

23. Clinton Pardon

24. Bush Pardon

27. 1. George Washington Key Decisions:
President for 8 years from Virginia, no party affiliation
1st president of the new nation soon after the Revolutionary war
Key Decisions:
The Judiciary Act of 1789 established the federal court system
The Bank Act 1791 established a federal banking system
Adopted a stance of neutrality during the French Revolution
The two term precedent has been upheld by every president except one
He was the only president to be unanimously voted!

28. Presidents Exchange:
You will have your research from yesterday with you at all time.
You will stand in front of your shoulder partner outside. (see diagram below)
You will each have one minute to share what you have learned about your president
You will write down on your paper one of the Key Fact from each president.
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