1. Chapter 10 The Presidency

2. Enduring questions
Did the Founding Fathers want the president to be stronger or weaker than Congress?
How does character influence how the president does his job?
Should we abolish the electoral college?

3. Powers the president shares with the Senate
Make treaties
Appoint ambassadors, judges, and high officials

4. Powers the president shares with Congress as a whole
Make laws
Administer the laws
Make war

5. War Powers Act (1973) (CRS report)
Catalyst
Provisions
Notification of Congress
Congressional action
Automatic withdrawal after 60 days unless
Declaration of war
Approval of undeclared war
Legislative veto within 60 days
Examples
Afghanistan
Iraq

6. Structure of the executive branch
White House Office
Chief of staff, counselor, press secretary, national security adviser, domestic policy adviser, Congressional liaison
Executive Office of the President
CEA, NSC, OMB
Cabinet departments
Independent agencies

7. Presidential popularity (Truman – Nixon)

8. Presidential popularity (Ford - Obama)

9. Presidential success in Congress (Eisenhower – Obama)
Source: Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, various years.

10. Four presidential character types (James David Barber)
Positive
Negative
Active
Jefferson
T. Roosevelt
F. D. Roosevelt
Truman
Kennedy
Lincoln
Wilson
Hoover
L. B. Johnson
Nixon
Passive
Madison
Taft
Harding
Reagan
Clinton
Washington
Coolidge
Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush (2nd term)

11. C-Span historians’ presidential rankings (2009)

12. Presidential succession
Death
Natural causes
Assassination
Resignation
Impeachment & conviction
Andrew Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton

13. Presidential disability
25th amendment:
Catalyst:
Provision:
vice-president can now become “acting president” in cases of presidential disability
Three scenarios:
President initiates process
President takes no action
President denies disability