ROLES OF THE PRESIDENTE

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ROLES OF THE PRESIDENTE
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CHIEF OF STATE

• PLAYS BOTH KING AND PRIME MINISTER
• THROWING BASEBALLS
• CHARITY FUNCTIONS
• CONGRATULATING HEROS
• LIGHTS CHRISTMAS TREES
• DANCES

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE

• APPOINTS ALL TOP OFFICIALS IN FEDERAL GOV.
• SUCH AS
• JUDGES, ATTORNEYS, CABINET MEMBERS, EXECUTIVE
  DEPARTMENT HEADS, DIPLOMATS, AMBASSADORS
• http//www.whitehouse.gov/results/leadership/dept_
  DOJ.html

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE

• PARDONS
• Many pardons have been controversial.  Perhaps
  the most controversial was Gerald Ford's
  preemptive 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for his
  actions in the Watergate Affair.  More recently,
  George Bush's 1992 pardons of six Reagan
  administration officials involved in the
  Iran-Contra Affair, including Defense Secretary
  Caspar Weinberger, generated considerable
  negative comment.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE

• PATTY HEARST, 2001 The granddaughter of
  publishing titan William Randolph Hearst made
  headlines in 1974 when an urban guerilla group
  known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
  kidnapped her from her Berkeley, Calif.,
  apartment. Two months later the 19-year-old was
  photographed robbing a San Francisco bank while
  brandishing an assault rifle apparently she had
  taken up her captors' cause. At trial her defense
  lawyer focused not only on her abuse and the fact
  that the kidnappers forced her to take part in
  the robbery, but on the pervasive brainwashing by
  her attackers that caused her to sympathize with
  them. The defense didn't work and Hearst was
  convicted of bank robbery on March 20, 1976. She
  was imprisoned for almost two years before Jimmy
  Carter commuted her seven-year sentence and freed
  her from jail. But it was President Bill Clinton
  who granted her a full pardon on the last day of
  his presidency, January 20, 2001.

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COMMANDER AND CHIEF

• HEAD OF THE ARMY

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CHIEF DIPLOMAT

• HEAD OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
• TREATIES
• RATIFIED BY SENATE
• BUSH AND PUTIN/NUCLEAR ARMS
• OBAMA AND CHAVEZ ECONOMY

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CHIEF DIPLOMAT

• EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS
• COALITION OF THE WILLING

http//www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_or
bat_coalition.htm
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CHIEF LEGISLATOR

• HEAD OF DOMESTIC POLICY
• STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
• URGES PUBLIC OPINION IN CERTAIN DIRECTION
• WORKS CLOSELY WITH LEGISLATORS TO ENSURE HIS
  AGENDA

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GUARDIAN OF THE ECONOMY

• WATCHES OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY
• EXECUTIVES MAY USE CERTAIN MEASURES TO ENSURE A
  GOOD ECONOMY
• JENNY BANNING GAS PRICES FROM BEING BOUSTED AFTER
  BLACKOUT

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POLITICIAN AND PARTY LEADER

• MAINTAIN PARTY LEADERSHIP AND CAMPAIGN ROLES

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CHIEF CITIZEN

• REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE
• Moral High Ground
• Represents what America means
• Represents American Citizens to other countries.