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FrontPage : OL on your desk. How is the EoP different from the cabinet departments and IAs?.
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FrontPage: OL on your desk. How is the EoP different from the cabinet departments and IAs? A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second -- enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. The revolutionary snapper may have a fast shutter but the long time it takes to process the images have earned it the nickname of the "the world's slowest fastest camera." Homework: Executive Branch Test Monday
Chapter 8, Section 4 The Executive Office of the President
What is the “Executive Office of the President?” • Small group of advisors and offices, mostly located in the West Wing • Closest to the President; most may work with him nearly every day • Includes: • Chief of Staff • National Security Advisor • Senior Advisor • Personal Secretary • Chief White House Counsel (lawyer for Prez) • Personal Aide to the President • Press Secretary • Other aides
How is the EoP different from the rest of the Executive branch? • EOP • Considered “staff” agencies: • advise the president • Provide information, advice and support • Cabinet depts, IA’s • Considered “line” agencies (on the “front lines”) • carry out the laws • “do the work” of executing laws of US