Unit IV
Executive
Branch
I. President & Vice
President
A. Qualifications
1. Native Born
2. 35 yrs old
3. U.S. resident 14 yrs
B. Term
1. 4 yrs
2. 2 term limit – 22nd Amendment
C. Vice President
1. Take over for President
2. President of the Senate
http://www.termlimits.org/Current_Info/22nd-Amendment-text.html
D. Presidential Succession
1.
2.
3.
4.
Vice President
Speaker of the House
President Pro Tempore
Cabinet members (oldest to newest)
E. 25th Amendment
1. If President cannot serve & Vice
President takes over, he nominates new
Vice President
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html
2. Nixon Pres. Agnew VP resigns tax
evasion
Nixon nominates Ford
Nixon resigns (Watergate)
Ford takes over & nominates
Rockefeller VP
http://www.watergate.info/
Nixon
&
Agnew
Ford
&
Rockefeller
II. Powers & Roles of
the President
A. Influence legislation
1. State of the Union address
2. Budget for the U.S.
3. Veto power
B. Judicial Powers
1. Appoints members to Federal Courts
2. Grants pardons, reprieves
C. Chief of State
1. Symbol
2. Political party leader
D. Commander in Chief
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
State Dept
Defense Dept
Joint Chiefs of Staff
CIA
National Security Council
E. Foreign Policy Leader
1. Military powers
2. Treaty-making powers
a. Peace – Japan, Germany
b. Alliance – NATO, ANZUS, OAS
c. 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
F. Chief Diplomat
1. Diplomacy – personal,
summit conference
2. Diplomatic recognition
3. Ambassadors
Pres. Ulysses S. Grant greeting a
Japanese delegation in the White
House
March 23, 1872
III. Executive Support
A. Executive Office of the President
1. Council of economic advisors
2. Office of management & budget
3. Press secretary
B. Cabinet
1. Executive departments (15)
2. Secretary, attorney general
C.
Agencies
1.Independent
a.
NASA
b.
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
IV. Debate, Consensus,
Compromise, Negotiation
A. Resolving conflict
B. 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)
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
U.S. Presidents
1st - George Washington
4th – James Madison
2nd – John Adams
5th – James Monroe
3rd – Thomas Jefferson
6th – John Quincy Adams
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
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
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
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
43rd – George W. Bush
44th- Barack Obama