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When the election for the presidency of the United States approached in 1928 President Calvin Coolidge, who secretly aspired to a third term, announced that "I do not choose to run." Much to the President's discomfiture, this cryptic statement was taken to mean that he would not accept the nomination of the Republican Party even if offered to him. This misunderstanding opened the door for Herbert Hoover, who was serving as Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce at the time, to make a bid for the nomination himself.
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The role of the executive in the United States government has changed as office holders shaped the presidency and interpreted their powers in various ways. All members of the Constitutional Convention considered George Washington to embody the image of the American president. His leadership and commitment to the United States brought legitimacy to the newly formed government. Two of Washington's cabinet members, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, differed in their views of the role of the government, and their clashing political philosophies have characterized leadership styles adopted by subsequent presidents.
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This is a study of the relative decline of the American presidency in a period when the role of the United States as a world leader is diminishing. Michael Genovese examines the strategies used by presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, and how political and economic circumstance affected their performances. This analysis points ... to the ways presidents must govern to be successful in a new era. This short text is intended for students of the presidency and political leadership.
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Since 1960 the office of the vice presidency of the United States has evolved into a fundamentally different institution than the one the founders envisioned, attracting better-qualified aspirants who may be called upon to perform a variety of important tasks. This book offers a corrective to the overwhelmingly negative view that Americans have had of their vice presidents by demonstrating how the role has changed over time. In addition, Baumgartner examines those who were candidates for vice president but who were not elected. The book is organized thematically according to the career path of the vice president, from the selection process through campaign and nomination to election, service in office, and post-White House contributions.
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Introduction Article II of the United States Constitution provides a spare, even skeletal description of the role of the president of the United States. The president, it says, will be vested with “executive power,” will be commander in chief of the nation’s military forces, and will have the power to make treaties and appoint judges and executive officers with the advice and consent of the Senate. “He shall from time to time give to the Congress information on the State of the Union” and recommend measures for the legislature’s consideration. The president will receive ambassadors and will “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Otherwise, the Framers had almost nothing to say about what the president would do or what kind of person the president would be. Through most of American history... the presidency has been much more than a simple instrument of executive power. Presidents, far from merely executing laws conceived and passed by others, have been the source of some of the most important shifts in the nation’s public policy and political ideology.
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The impact of this amendment on the vice presidency was unfortunate. The office immediately declined in significance. The parties lost sight of the intimate relationship between the two top offices that originally had been intended. For nearly 150 years it was usually accidental if the political parties chose for the vice presidency a person whom they honestly believed capable of assuming presidential duties. Rather, vice-presidential candidates often were chosen because they were popular in important states.
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