Programs, Perks

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Programs, Perks Stresses of Presidents

• Chapter 14, Theme D

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The Presidents Program

• Demands are great once inaugurated
• Appointments
• State of the Union Address
• Budget
• Who do you confer with for a program? Use gun
  control as example.
• Interest Groups
• Campaign and staff advisors
• Bureaucrats
• Specialists and experts
• Is your program extensive or concentrated?

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The Best Laid Plans

• What constraints interfere with a Presidents
  program?
• Public opinion
• Time
• An unexpected Crisis
• Congress
• Rules for getting your programs done
• Move it or lose it (Strike while the iron is
  hot!)
• Avoid details (Pick a few focus!)
• Choose good people

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What shapes Popularity?

• Compare First 100 days of FDR, W. Bush, and
  Obama? What is the difference?
• Does a honeymoon period exist in a second term?
• What factors help success popularity?
• Strong Economy
• Peace
• Lack of Scandals
• Continuity in second term
• Unified Government

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Second Term Curse?
President Barack Obama's approval rating
currently stands at 56 in the latest three-day
Gallup Daily tracking average -- seven percentage
points higher than the average of his monthly
approval ratings (49) for the first 48 months of
his administration, between January 2009 and
December 2012.
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Outsmarting the Curse

• Reagan and Clinton Only Ones Who Scored Better
  During Second Term

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What caused their decline?
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Stresses of the Presidency

• Discuss Obamas agenda from blog.
• What do you make of a typical day?
• http//www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete
• Show clip of how Presidents age
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?vL-479M7alGU
• Why few friends? Why weight gain? Why so much
  stress?
• Is the job worth the stress?

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Perks of the President

• Discuss inset, p. 380
• Go to websites to show perks
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v5Z38KpsBI7A
• http//www.channelone.com/news/gal_presidential_pe
  rks/
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGumf5ggG_zA
• Podcast if you want more
• http//castroller.com/podcasts/StuffYouMissed/1082
  814-Presidential20Perks

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Keeping the House in Order

• How does a person win re-election to the
  Presidency?
• What factors hinder re-election?
• Discuss assassinations impact.
• Vice President
• Disability
• Act of Succession
• 25th Amendment

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Impeachment

• Review the process.
• Who can be impeached?
• Why impeach a President?
• The case of Andrew Johnson
• http//education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-imp
  eachment-of-andrew-johnson-conflict-between-presid
  ent-and-congress.html
• The case of Bill Clinton
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4GgPo2cHFq0

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Informal Power

• What is an executive order?
• For your document, answer the following
• Why was the order issued?
• Under what formal power or role was the President
  acting? Cite language.
• What did the order actually do?
• What was the response of at least one other
  branch of government to this order?