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Unit IV

Unit IV. Executive Branch. I. President & Vice President. Qualifications Native Born 35 yrs old U.S. resident 14 yrs Term 4 yrs 2 term limit – 22 nd Amendment Vice President Take over for President President of the Senate.

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Unit IV

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  1. Unit IV Executive Branch

  2. I. President & Vice President

  3. Qualifications • 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 http://www.termlimits.org/Current_Info/22nd-Amendment-text.html

  4. 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html

  5. Nixon Pres. Agnew VP resigns tax evasion Nixon nominates Ford Nixon resigns (Watergate) Ford takes over & nominates Rockefeller VP http://www.watergate.info/

  6. Nixon & Agnew Ford & Rockefeller

  7. 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

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

  9. Foreign Policy Leader • Military powers • Treaty-making powers • Peace – Japan, Germany • Alliance – NATO, ANZUS, OAS • Commercial & trade – GATT protective tariff balance of trade http://www.oas.org/ http://www.awm.gov.au/korea/origins/anzus/anzus.htm http://www.nato.int/ http://www.natlaw.com/treaties.htm

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

  11. III. Executive Support • Executive Office of the President • Council of economic advisors • Office of management & budget • Press secretary • Cabinet • Executive departments (15) • Secretary, attorney general

  12. Agencies 1.Independent • NASA • CIA 2.Regulatory a. FCC b. EPA c. CPSC d. Fed. Reserve Sys. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

  13. 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)

  14. 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

  15. U.S. Presidents 1st - George Washington 2nd – John Adams 3rd – Thomas Jefferson 4th – James Madison 5th – James Monroe 6th – John Quincy Adams

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 43rd – George W. Bush 44th- Barack Obama

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