1. Unit IV
Executive Branch

3. I. President & Vice President

4. 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

5. DC 2014

6. 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

7. Nixon Pres. Agnew VP resigns tax evasion
Nixon nominates Ford
Nixon resigns (Watergate)
Ford takes over & nominates Rockefeller VP

8. Nixon
&
Agnew
Ford
Rockefeller

9. 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

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

11. Foreign Policy Leader Military powers Treaty-making powers
Peace – Japan, Germany
Alliance – NATO, ANZUS, OAS
Commercial & trade – GATT
protective tariff
balance of trade

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 43rd – George W. Bush 44th- Barack Obama