Thursday 10/30RAP

•Which president was the first president to be born in a hospital?

•He was also the first president to go on record as having seen a UFO!!! Who was he?

Today:

•Turn in Ch. 13.3 and 13.4

•President FDR-finish, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush, and Obama

Friday 10/31RAP

•Which president vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister?

•President George Herbert Walker Bush (Sr), after he did, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.

Today:

•Presidents

Monday 11/3RAP•Which president was the only president to serve in both WWI and WWII?

•President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Today:

Finish President presentations-Clinton, Bush, Obama

Review Ch. 14

Analyze cartoon

Ch. 14.1 One president has been elected 4 times!!!!!! Do you know

which?• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), he was elected

President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. Roosevelt was the first and only President to serve more than two terms. People LOVED him!

• Soon after his death, Republicans in Congress began the work of creating the Twenty-second Amendment put a limit on how many times a person could be elected to become President. A person is limited to eight (two terms or possibly ten) years as president.

Powers of the President

The President is the single commandinghead of the executive branch.

Over time the executive departments have grown

As the United States has become moreindustrialized & technologically advancedpeople demanded the federal government

play a larger role in almost everything.

There are about 2.7 millionmen & women staffing agenciesthat are subject to the Presidents

control and direction

POWERS Ch. 14.2

Power to issue an executive order

Executive order: a directive, rule orRegulation that has the effect of a law.

During WWII President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued executive

orders requiring gasoline & other strategic war supplies to be

rationed (sold in limited quantities)• Why is it

important that the pres. have such a power, instead of congress?

One of President Obama’s Executive Orders

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13588 Nov. 2011 - REDUCING PRESCRIPTION DRUG SHORTAGES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. Shortages of pharmaceutical drugs pose a serious and growing threat to public health. While a very small number of drugs in the

United States experience a shortage in any given year, the number of prescription drug shortages in the United States nearly tripled between

2005 and 2010, and shortages are becoming more severe as well as more frequent. The affected medicines include cancer treatments, anesthesia

drugs, and other drugs that are critical to the treatment and prevention of serious diseases and life threatening conditions.

Executive Order -- Minimum Wage for ContractorsPresident Obama Feb 12, 2014

• By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 et seq., and in order to promote economy and efficiency in procurement by contracting with sources who adequately compensate their workers, it is hereby ordered as follows:

• Section 1. Policy. This order seeks to increase efficiency and cost savings in the work performed by parties who contract with the Federal Government by increasing to $10.10 the hourly minimum wage paid by those contractors. Raising the pay of low-wage workers increases their morale and the productivity and quality of their work, lowers turnover and its accompanying costs, and reduces supervisory costs. These savings and quality improvements will lead to improved economy and efficiency in Government procurement.

Appointment Power

With Senate consent the Presidentnames most of the top-ranking officersof the federal government.

Who does the President Appoint?

• Ambassadors & other diplomats

• Cabinet members & other top aids

• Heads of independent agencies (i.e.. Environmental Protection agency &

NASA.

Who Else?

• All Federal judges , US marshals and attorneys

• All officers in the armed forces

A majority of the Senates support is necessary for confirmation of

any of the appointments

Does the Senate need to approve theAppointment of White House Staff?

As far as Cabinet members go…• If the President is “displeased”

with a members performance, he can ask them to resign (remember in Dave when he says to his chief of staff “Bob I want your letter of resignation on my desk in 15 minutes”?) Essentially it is firing him/her. However, it is both better career wise and for the sake of history, for one to resign rather than be fired.

Tuesday 11/4RAP:•Which President was offered, not one, but two offers from professional football teams, while in college?

– Gerald Ford received offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but chose instead to take a position as a boxing coach and assistant varsity football coach at Yale, hoping to attend law school there.

•What makes a candidate charismatic? (What impresses the voters?) 

•Are the qualities that get a candidate elected to office the same qualities that make him/her a good leader?

Today:

•Finish Ch. 14 review

•Read and answer questions on the executive departments.

•If time permits, begin “Dave”

Power to make Treaties Ch. 14.3

A treaty is a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.

Senate must give its approval by 2/3 vote of members present.

Executive Agreement

A pact between the President & the head of a foreign state or between their subordinate. UNLIKE A TREATY, executiveAgreements do not require the senates consent.

Executive Agreement

• For example, after the outbreak of World War II but before American entry into the conflict, President Franklin D. Roosevelt negotiated an executive agreement that gave the United Kingdom 50 overage destroyers in exchange for 99-year leases on certain

British naval bases in the Atlantic.

What is the difference between a treaty and an executive

agreement?

Turn & tell your neighbor

Veto Power Ch. 14.4The President has four options when he receives a

measure passed by congress.

1.Sign the bill & make it law

2.Veto & it goes back to congress; can then be overridden with a 2/3 vote.

3.Allow it to become a law by not acting on it (within 10 days, Congress still in session)

4.Pocket veto- only at the end of a congressional session. If congress adjourns w/in 10 days of sending a bill and the Pres. does nothing, the measure dies. Congress can do nothing about it.

FYI

• Pocket veto was first used by President James Madison.

• The term was coined by critics of Andrew Jackson's Presidency. He carried a bill around in his pocket saying he would get to it later, and he didn’t.

Vocabulary please know• Pardon- legal forgiveness of a crime.• Pardon is a formal dismissal of charges against

a person• Amnesty – a blanket pardon offered to a group

of law breakers (ex: President Carter granted amnesty to all draft dodgers).

• Reprieve- a postponement of the execution

of a sentence (it will happen later)

*A commutation is a suspension of a punishment, for a less severe punishment.

Power to grant reprieves and pardons. (federal only)

The president’s power to grant reprieves and pardons is

absolute, except in cases of impeachment, where they may

never be granted.

Pardons in advance of a trial are rare• 1974, President Gerald Ford gave a “full,

free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he…has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 20,1969, through Aug. 9, 1974”.

• When a pardon is accepted prior to a charge or conviction, its acceptance is seen as an admission of guilt.

Constitutional Powers of the President Powers granted in the Constitution (Article II) know!!!

• Commander in Chief• Appoints heads of executive departments (also has

removal power)• Grants pardons and Reprieves• Makes treaties• Appoints ambassadors, judges, Supreme Court Justices• Gives the State of the Union Address• Calls Congress into special session• Veto power• Meets with heads of state• Commissions military officers• Ensures that the laws of Congress are faithfully executed

In your notes, please write:What the Presidents four options

are when receiving a measure from congress?

1. Sign the bill & make it law2. Veto & it goes back to congress; can then be

overridden with a 2/3 vote.3. Allow it to become a law by not acting on it (within

10 days, Congress still in session)4. Pocket veto- only at the end of a congressional session.

If congress adjourns w/in 10 days of sending a bill and the Pres. does nothing, the measure dies. Congress can do nothing about it.

Types of Presidential Power:Constitutional, Informal or NOT a power

Take out your slates; write either C, I or N

1.Call Congress into special sessionConstitutional

2. Tell the voters about a serious threat of war by means of a televised speech

Informal 3. Appoint his/her brother to serve as Secretary of State

Constitutional 4. Order the Internal Revenue Service to increase efforts to collect taxes that have not been paid on time

Not a power

5. Veto BillsConstitutional

6. Fire the Secretary of State, despite the fact that a majority of the Senate wishes to have the Secretary remain in office.

Constitutional…goes with appointment power (“the power of the President to remove Members of the Cabinet cannot be limited by Congress, because independence from the President is not desirable for those posts.”)

7. Remove the Speaker of the House from that positionNot a power (house)

8. Pardon all soldiers convicted of evading the draft and refusing to serve in the armed forces during a war.

Constitutional

Ch. 15 –Cabinet and Executive departments

• Please answer the questions on the Vice President and the Cabinet– Ch. 13.2– Ch. 15

• We will watch “Dave” the last 15 minutes of class.