President’s Job

-As the nation has grown so has the job of being President

-Examples:

• Just like the many roles we play, as does the President.

President

& his ROLES!

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As NHHS Students Our Roles May include:

Son/ Daughter/ Family Member Student/ Peer Classmate Friend Employee Teammate Etc.

Chief Executive

-Head of the Executive Branch

-Bureaucracy (all the people who work for the government)

-Duties

-Carry Out the Laws

• Enforce the law!

-Issue Executive Orders--Term for orders given by the President in order to carry out his duties as Chief Executive— the orders have the same force as law

-Appoint Government Officials

•Appointing someone to serve as head of the

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

• •Holding a Cabinet meeting to discuss

government business. • 

•Reading reports about problems of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Chief Diplomat

-Deals with Foreign Governments

-Duties

-Appoints Ambassadors w/ Senate Approval

• PRESIDENT APPTS, SENATE APPROVES!

-Make Treaties w/ Senate Approval

• PRESIDENT APPTS, SENATE APPROVES!

-Act as Mediator between Nations

•Traveling to England to meet with Parliament and other British leaders.  •Entertaining Japanese diplomats in the White House.  •Writing a message or a letter to the leaders of Russia.

Commander in Chief

-Leader of the Armed Forces

-Duties

-Command Our Troops

-Picks Military Leaders

•Inspecting a Navy yard.  •Deciding, in wartime, whether to bomb foreign cities.  •Calling out troops to stop a riot.

Legislative Leader

-Tries to get laws passed that benefit the nation as well as his Party

-Economic leader in legislative role

-Uses Presidential Influence

-State of the Union Speech-- Speech given by the President each year to describes the situation of the nation and the speech is required by the Constitution

-Uses the media

•Inviting members of Congress to lunch in the

White House. • 

•Signing a bill of Congress. • 

•Making a speech in Congress

(joint-session)

Economic Leader

Meeting with economic advisers to discuss ways to reduce unemployment.  

Meeting with business and labor leaders to discuss their needs and problems.

Anytime pres. meets w/ ppl to discuss economy

Party Leader

-Is the Visible leader of his political party and Pursues policies favorable to his party goals

-uses patronage system

the patronage system gives out gov’t positions to those people who gave support to the candidate and share their ideas(not allowed anymore)

-gives endorsements in campaigns-- Process where famous or influential people give their support to someone who is seeking office

•Choosing leading party members to serve in the Cabinet.  •Traveling to California to speak at a rally for a party nominee to the U.S. Senate.

Judicial Leader

-Head of the Law Enforcement System

-Power to appoint Federal and Supreme Court Judges with approval of the Senate

-Has certain Judicial powers:

immunity– making someone free from prosecution

pardon--forgiving someone for a crime

reprieve-- delaying the punishment given to someone

commutation– reducing a person’s sentence

amnesty– legal term for granting pardons to a group

Chief of State

-Is the symbolic leader of the nation

-Meets foreign leaders

-Make patriotic speeches and visits

-mostly symbolic gestures

•Awarding medals to the winners of college scholarships.

•Congratulating astronauts on their journey into space.

•Greeting visitors to the White House.

•Making a patriotic speech on the Fourth of July.

1)President Clinton appointed Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court.

•(Chief Executive)

2) Jimmy Carter brings Egypt and Israel together to sign the Camp David Peace

Accords in 1979.

•(Chief Diplomat)

•3) President Obama sends Michelle Obama to represent the United States at the funeral of Johnnas Ketye, government official in Australia.

•(Head of State)

4) President Kennedy orders America's nuclear forces on high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

• (Commander-in-chief)

5) President Carter placed restrictions on the sale of gasoline during the 1979 energy crisis.

(Guardian of the economy).

6) The president makes his annual state-of-the union address to Congress to outline his agenda for the year.

(Chief  legislator).

7) President Clinton may have broken federal law as he raised money for the Democratic National Committee in 1996.

(Chief of the Party)