Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

150 Presidential politics The president has four main political functions. First, like Congress, al- though necessarily in a ver ...

Presidential politics 151 the overwhelming majority of the American people, and attempts must be made to attain these goals. For ...

152 Presidential politics American governmental structure should by now be apparent to the reader, but there are two further dim ...

Presidential politics 153 United States. The president could require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer of each o ...

154 Presidential politics appointments and treaties. The Supreme Court also stands as a potential check to the power of the pres ...

Presidential politics 155 others using public opinion to override contrary opinions in the party. In es- sence, presidential pol ...

156 Presidential politics disputes, throwing their weight behind one faction or another, and hoping to benefit one day from the ...

Presidential politics 157 different. In 1955 President Eisenhower allowed his press conferences to be filmed for television, and ...

158 Presidential politics blind us to the fact that the presidency is an institution, and that the modern presidency involves an ...

Presidential politics 159 meetings with the president of those members concerned with a particular problem. Presidents have used ...

160 Presidential politics nature of the cabinet, ensuring that the regions of the country are represent- ed and that no section ...

Presidential politics 161 interests that go to make up the American polity, but it represents very little in terms of actual dec ...

162 Presidential politics The White House Office The nerve centre of the Executive Office, and indeed of the presidency, is the ...

Presidential politics 163 charge against one member of the President’s staff, Sherman Adams. Presi- dent Eisenhower appointed Ad ...

164 Presidential politics and the Executive Office. A Domestic Council was established in order to coordinate the activities of ...

Presidential politics 165 hierarchy. President Ford returned to the pre-Nixon relationship between the cabinet and the White Hou ...

166 Presidential politics of interdepartmental committees. Under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, however, the Council met less f ...

Presidential politics 167 of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. We shall look more closely at this disaster in a later chapter. T ...

168 Presidential politics case, the felt need to coordinate government activities led to the creation of further agencies, so ag ...

Presidential politics 169 responsibility of seeing that presidential policy is carried through. However, the practical significa ...