STYLES OF LEADERSHIPMR. YOUNG

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Unit 6Chapter 9, Section 3

Essential Questions

What leadership style and leadership quality do you think is best for a President?

I Can:

Analysis and Explain different leadership qualities and skills each President will perform

Compare and Contrast the different styles of Presidential Leadership

Determine if Executive Privilege is something that should or should not be offered to a President

Increased Responsibility

The founders anticipated that Congress, not the president, would lead the nation

1.Demonstrated leadership by introducing bold new Ideas

2.Lead by responding to crises, problems, or opportunites as they occur

Crises Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMiqEUBux3o

Bush’s 9/11 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjXjfxoNXM

Regan Challenger Speech

Leadership Qualities and Skills 1) Understanding the Public

Understanding the people is necessary to gain and hold their support

When a president is popular, presidential proposals and policies are better received by Congress

Failure to understand the public can be disastrous

2) Ability to Communicate

Successful presidents must be able to communicate effectively, to explain their polices clearly, and to present their ideas in a way that inspires public support.

Communication Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNJOdJJ0zg&feature=fvst

Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Speech

3) Sense of Timing

A successful president must know when the time is right to introduce a new policy or to make a key decision as well as when to delay doing so.

Skillful presidents often use their assistants or cabinet secretaries to test a position on a controversial issue.

Sense of Timing Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPu1UIBkBc

Reagan/Mondale Debate

4) Openness to New Ideas

Good leadership also requires the capacity to be flexible and open to new ideas

This may mean engaging in informal give-and-take sessions with their advisors

5) Ability to Compromise

A Successful President must be willing to compromise to pass legislation

Presidents who will not compromise risk accomplishing nothing

A tragic example is Woodrow Wilson

6) Political Courage

A successful leader must have political courage

To be great leaders, president must at times have the courage to make decisions they know will be unpopular with the voters

Presidential Isolation

1. Modern president see themselves as receiving special treatments

2. Staff members feel in awe of the President and may not give him criticism or bad news

3. Political power can be measured in access to the President

Presidential Isolation Cont.

4) Top staff members use their closeness to the President to control other’s accessDe Facto- existing “in fact” rather than legally (Donald Regan)Covert- secret (Iran-Contra Affair)

Iran-Contra Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs

Reagan Speech on Iran-Contra

Executive Privilege

Executive Privilege

President and other high ranking Executive officers does not have to give or provide information to Congress or the courts

Necessary to get honest opinions and advice from their assistants and advisors

United States vs. Nixon- President had to surrender tapes, but Executive privilege is constitutional.