EXOP Flashcards
What is EXOP?
The top staff and agencies in the White House that give the President help and advice
When was EXOP created?
1939
What are the most imprint bits of EXOP?
White House Office and the National Security Council
What was EXOP created after?
The Brownlow Committee declared “the President Needs Help”
Why did the “president need help”?
Because o the huge increase in the size and scope of the federal government caused by Westward expansion and industrialisation, as well as the emergence of the USA as a global super power and the New Deal
Give three of the President’s most trusted advisors
1) Press Sec
2) Chief of staff
3) Assistant to the President for legislative affairs
What are the 9 functions of the White House Office?
1) policy advice
2) Personnel management
3) crisis management
4) Liaison with federal bureaucracy
5) Liaison with congress
6) running the Whitehouse
7) deciding and executing the president’s daily schedule
8) Act as “ightnight conductors” for the President
9) Ensuring an orderly decision making process for the President
What term describes how the the White House Office are not policy makers but impartial advisors?
Honest Brokers
What term describes how the the White House Office are not meant to be in the spotlight?
They’re meant to have a passion for anonymity
What was Dick Cheney for Ford and what did he say?
He was Whitehouse Chief of Staff for Ford and he said “he takes the credit, I take the blame”
Who is the current Whitehouse chief of staff?
Reince Priebus
Who was a good Whitehouse chief of staff and for whom did he serve?
Andrew Card and Bush
Who was an overwhelmed Whitehouse chief of staff?
Mack McLarty Bill Clinton
Who was an obtrusive Whitehouse chief of staff and for whom did he serve?
John Sununu Old Bush
When was the NSC formed?
1947
What was the NSC formed to do?
Helps the President coordinate foreign and defence policy
What is the NSC essentially?
An internal think tank that gathers advice and information
What are the 5 locations that the NSC may gather information from?
1) State department
2) defence department
3) CIA
4) Relevant congressional committees
5) Joint chiefs of staff
What is the defence department also known as?
Pentagon
What is a relevant congressional committee for the NSC?
Senate foreign relations committee
How did Nixon greatly increase the role of National Security Advisor?
with kissinger who became a king of roving foreign policy maker for the President
What did Kissinger undermine?
The state department
Kissinger acted more as a ____ than a ___
Policy player than a mere facilitator
The newly enhanced role of NSA gave problems in what way for Reagan?
Iranian Hostage Crisis
The newly enhanced role of NSA gave problems in what way for Carter?
Iran Contra affair
Bush’s Condoleezza Rice has reverted to what?
The old, pre Kissinger model of NSA
Which NSA has resigned?
Michael Flynn
What are the two ways of structuring the EXOP?
Wheel or Pyramid
Which three Presidents favoured the Pyramid?
1) Nixon
2) Reagan
3) Bush
Nixon’s Pyramid structure was known as what?
His three close advisors were kwon as the Berlin wall
What is the benefit of the pyramid system for a President?
Less confusing
What happens to the president in the Pyramid model?
isolated
How does the Pyramid model give a lot of power to the advisors?
Everything has to pass through them in order to access the president
Which four democrat Presidents have favoured the wheel model?
1) Kennedy
2) Clinton
3) Carter
4) Obama
What can the wheel format be too?
Accessible
What could some advisors do in the wheel format?
take advantage of the confusion that it can sometimes create
