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The Presidency (Facts) Flashcards

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Obama’s flagship legislation?

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

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Example of President deploying troops through Commander in Chief role?

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Kennedy in Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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Example of Presidential Pardon

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Obama to Chelsea Manning 2017

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Powers of Vice President

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Presiding officer of Senate; break tied vote in Senate; count and announce results of Presidential elections; be acting president

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Acting Presidents?

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George H. W. Bush (13th July 1985); Dick Cheney (29th June 2002/ 21 July 2007)

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Features of Cheney’s Vice Presidency (2001-2009)

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Interviewed and suggested supreme court replacement for Reinquist in 2005; was in situation room after 9/11 whilst Bush was in Florida; ordered air strikes on 5th plane of 9/11

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Features of Biden’s Vice Presidency (2009-2017)

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Always last man in room with Obama; mediator to Congress for 2009 economic stimulus package; drew up gun control measures after 2012 Conneticut shooting

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What percentage of federal civil servants work in the Washington area?

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11%

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Example of how federal bureaucracy executes laws?

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United States Postal Service - delivers mail

Internal Revenue Service - collects taxes

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What did the Civil Service Reform Act (1978) do?

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Established Office of Personal Management (OPM)

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How many political appointees did Kennedy have to make in 1961 and Clinton in 1993?

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Kennedy: 451
Clinton: 2000

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Percentage of civil service that was female in 1961 and in 2010?

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1961: 25%
2010: 44%

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What percentage of the federal civil service is made up of disabled war veterans?

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21%

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What percentage of federal civil service are ethnic minorities?

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33.1%

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Example of federal bureaucracy inefficiency

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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005

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Policy specialists in cabinet

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Education Secretary Rod Paige (2001-2005) had been a schools superintendent for 6 years; Secretary of HUD Shaun Donovan (2009-2014) had been a housing commissioner

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Rejected cabinet nomination by Senate

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John Tower as defense secretary in 1989 (47-53)

18
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Confirmed cabinet nomination by Senate

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Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State in 2017 (56-43)

19
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How many ethnic minorities were in Obama’s 2009 cabinet?

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6 (including Holder in Justice)

20
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How many ethnic minorities in Trump’s 2017 cabinet?

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2 (Labor and HUD)

21
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How many women in both Obama’s 2009 cabinet and Trump’s 2017 cabinet?

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4 in each

22
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Number of cabinet meetings in first year of first term: Reagan vs Obama?

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Reagan: 36
Obama: 5

23
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Examples of policy-specific cabinet councils

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National Economic Council; Domestic Policy Council; National Security Council

24
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Why can the heads of departments be said to have no real power?

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Article 2 of the Constitution vests ‘all executive power’ in the President

25
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Structure of Executive Office of President (EXOP)

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11 Offices

Over 2,000 staff

26
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How many offices in the White House Office?

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19

27
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Chiefs of Staff who were too powerful

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Sherman Adams (Eisenhower), Don Regan (Reagan), John Sununu (H.W. Bush)

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Well-balanced Chiefs of Staff

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Leon Panetta (Clinton) and Andrew Card (W. Bush)

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Example of EXOP and Cabinet disagreement

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Carter’s National Security Adviser Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance about a rescue mission of 52 American hostages in Iran 1980

30
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Bush legislation support score 2001 (Republican congress) vs 2007 (Democrat congress)

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2001: 87%
2007: 38.3%

31
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Party votes on 2009 Economic stimulus package in House (Yes-No)

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Democrats: 246-7
Republicans: 0-176

32
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Republican vote on 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Yes-No)

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House: 0-178
Senate: 0-40

33
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Example of Imperial Presidency action

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Eisenhower sent 14,000 troops to Lebanon in 1958 without congressional authorisation or backlash

34
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Acts limiting Imperial Presidency

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The Case Act (1972) and the War Powers Act (1973)

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