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Tools of Influence • Issues Executive Orders: rules that have the force of laws • Makes Appointments – The President appoints about 2,200 top-level federal officials • Removes officials they have appointed • Not always easy if have a lot of support (i.e. J. Edgar Hoover) • Impoundment: the president sets aside or refuses to spend money that Congress has appropriated for a certain purpose • Appoints federal judges • Issues Reprieves: delays punishment • Issues Pardons: forgiveness of a crime, and the associated punishment • Examples: Clinton took a lot of heat for pardoning a bunch of big donors just before leaving office; many of them were relatives. • Ford pardoned Nixon, saving the former President from future prosecution • Amnesty – A group pardon to people for offense against the government • Example: Ford and Carter to draft dodgers during Vietnam
Example of Chief Legislator President Bush issued the first veto of his five-year-old administration yesterday, rejecting Congress's bid to lift funding restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research and underscoring his party's split on an emotional issue in the 2004 fall elections.
Page 1 and 2: The Office of the President Executi
Page 3 and 4: Informal Qualification • Belongs
Page 5 and 6: Office of the Vice President •
Page 7 and 8: Other Constitutional Amendments and
Page 10 and 11: The Roles of the President
Page 12 and 13: Chief Executive/Administrator • A
Page 14 and 15: Example of Chief Diplomat Camp Davi
Page 18 and 19: Chief of Party • Presidents help
Page 20 and 21: Examples of Commander in chief •
Page 22 and 23: Implied Powers • Executive orders
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Page 26 and 27: Expansion of Presidential Power The
Page 28 and 29: Signing Statements • A “Signing
Page 30 and 31: Why does it fluctuate?
Page 32 and 33: White House Staff • Immediate sta
Page 34 and 35: Forms of Organization • Circular
Page 36 and 37: • Cabinet • Heads of Cabinet De
Page 38 and 39: Council of Economic Advisors • to
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