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Our Standards Today
Today's State Standard
GC.23 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events through
textual evidence to analyze the scope of presidential power and
decision-making related to significant examples, including the
Cuban Missile Crisis, passage of Great Society legislation, War
Powers Act, Gulf War, and intervention in Bosnia. (H, P)
GC.24 Identify and explain powers that the Constitution gives to
the President and Congress in the area of foreign affairs. (P)
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Understand the President's powers.
POTUS
President
Of
The
United
States
whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/barackobama
Did You Know
A video about presidential facts.
Did you know????
Our objectives today
Identify
roles.
the
President's
many
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Understand the President's powers.
The President's Many Roles
1) Chief of State
2) Chief Executive
3) Chief Administrator
4) Chief Diplomat
5) Commander in Chief
6) Chief Legislator
7) Chief of Party
8) Chief Citizen
President as Chief of State
Chief Executive
Chief Administrator
Chief Diplomat
Commander in Chief
Chief Legislator
Chief of Party
Chief Citizen
The George Bush Library at
Texas A&M
The George Bush Library at Texas A&M describes each role:
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/education/lesson_plans/roles_of_the_president/Roles
_of_Pres.pdf
Our objectives today
Identify
roles.
the
President's
many
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary
to
become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Constitution States the Qualifications of
President
Article II of the Constitution:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii
Formal Qualifications to be President
1) Be a natural born U.S. Citizen
2) Be at least 35 years of age
3) Been a resident of the United States for at
least 14 years
Ted Cruz
Can Ted Cruz be President?
What does 'Naturally Born' mean?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/13/politics/natur
al-born-president/index.html
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary
to
become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
No More FDRs
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the
length of the President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
POTUS Salary
Effective January 1, 2001, the annual salary of the President
of the United States was increased to $400,000 per year,
including a $50,000 expense allowance.
The president's salary is set by Congress, and under Article
II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, may not be
increased or reduced during his or her current term of
office.
The increase was approved as part of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act (Public Law 10658), passed in the closing days of the 106th Congress.
POTUS Benefits
http://money.howstuffworks.com/5presidential-perks.htm#page=0
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Describe the President's Powers
Vacation Days?
How many vacation days does the President
get?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/postpolitics/wp/2013/08/09/watch-which-u-spresident-took-the-most-vacation-time/
Retirement Perks
After leaving office?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/politics/paysto-be-president/
Wealth of Presidents
What was the wealth of our Presidents?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2
010/05/the-net-worth-of-the-us-presidentsfrom-washington-to-obama/57020/
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Understand the President's powers.
Our Standards Today
Today's State Standard
GC.23 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events through
textual evidence to analyze the scope of presidential power and
decision-making related to significant examples, including the
Cuban Missile Crisis, passage of Great Society legislation, War
Powers Act, Gulf War, and intervention in Bosnia. (H, P)
GC.24 Identify and explain powers that the Constitution gives to
the President and Congress in the area of foreign affairs. (P)
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
We almost had the war to end all wars!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig8UdfQKX
SY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZVRDKERhc
Great Society Legislation
LBJ Made some Speeches
1964 at University of Michigan:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?153610-1/greatsociety-speech
1965: State of the Union Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuEFTg
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Primary Source
The Speech:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience
/features/primary-resources/lbj-michigan/
What did the Great Society Involve?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/special/national/great-society-at-50/
Civil Rights
War on Poverty
Education
Health
Arts and Media
Environment
Housing and Urban Development
Consumer Protection
Immigration
Nixon
War Powers Act
1973 – Vietnam (Cambodia!)
Congress has to approve any military action
by the President:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4399286/warpowers-act-1973
Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm
Iraq Invades Kuwait
http://video.about.com/history1900s/Overview
-of-Gulf-War.htm
Bosnia
Genocide
Killing of many because they are different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vI18HJ
M2o
Bosnia
Did everyone just watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxXekP
_bSs
Why didn’t someone do something???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYXS9p
miZQ
Enough Was Enough?
Clinton was being forced to act:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDEukyR5fU
Srebrenica was the last straw.
https://www.hmh.org/la_Genocide_Bosnia.shtml
Clinton Spoke on the Issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGW--P1o2E
Our Constitution Sets the Rules
http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/backgroundhistory/a/whomake
sforpol.htm
Article II
Article II of the Constitution says the president has the power to:
make treaties with other countries (with consent of the Senate),
appoint ambassadors to other countries (with consent of the
Senate) and receive ambassadors from other countries
Article II also establishes the president as commander-in-chief of
the military, which gives him or her a lot of control over how the
United States interacts with the world. As Carl von Clausewitz
said, "War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means."
Our Standards Today
Today's State Standard
GC.23 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events through
textual evidence to analyze the scope of presidential power and
decision-making related to significant examples, including the
Cuban Missile Crisis, passage of Great Society legislation, War
Powers Act, Gulf War, and intervention in Bosnia. (H, P)
GC.24 Identify and explain powers that the Constitution gives to
the President and Congress in the area of foreign affairs. (P)
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Understand the President's powers.
What Did We Learn Today?
On a separate sheet of paper, answer these questions for
me to take up and review.
Assessment Questions
Explain the President's Roles as Chief of State.
What are the formal qualifications to become
President?
What was the purpose of the 22nd Amendment?
What is the salary of our President?
Understand the President's powers.