19.3 - Informal Powers - Powers of persuasion Flashcards
Chapter 19.3 - Informal powers - powers of persuasion
powers of persuasion
What is a quote in a Professor Richard Neustadt book about a president’s power of persuasion?
‘the power of the presidency is the power to persuade’
What is the power of persuasion?
The power of the president to bargain and persuade those around him in order to achieve his policy goals
What is a Harry Truman quote about the powers of persuasion?
‘I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have enough to do without my persuading them. … That’s all the powers of the president amount to’
When did Obama appeal directly and morally to Congress?
In 2013 with his Rose Garden speech in which he maintained that military action in Syria was needed
What is a ‘bully pulpit’?
A strong and significant platform from which the president can advance his policy
What did Trump do in 2017 which is an example of him using his powers of persuasion?
He bussed the entire Senate to the White House for a briefing on North Korea
What did Obama use his platform to do in 2015?
To call for gun control after the San Bernardino shooting in 2015
What did Joe Biden promise to do if Republicans passed anti-abortion legislation?
He would ‘veto it’
What did Joe Biden tell the UN General Assembly about the war in Ukraine?
The war was ‘chosen by one man’
What did Obama’s deputy chief of staff Messina call senators to do?
Ensure they would still vote for Sonia Sotomayor after a difficult quote came to light in her confirmation hearings
Who was Obama known to have telephone and have private meetings with in order to advance his legislative agenda?
Republican Speaker John Boehner
