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The Presidency: Powers and Practice
Partisan Support for the President in Congress
Growth in Presidential Speech Making
Trends in Presidential Use of the Veto
Pocket Veto
• Presidential veto after congressional adjournment, executed merely by not signing a bill into law.
Line Item Veto
• Presidential authority to negate particular provisions of a law, granted by Congress in 1996 but struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998.
Size of the White House Office
The Presidential Legislative Agenda: It’s Largest in the First Year
Executive Order
• A presidential directive that has the force of law, though it is not enacted by Congress.
Significant Executive Orders, 1900-1996
Executive Privilege
• The right of members of the executive branch to have private communications among themselves that need not be shared with Congress.
Impeachment
• Recommendation by a majority of the House of Representatives that a president, other official in the executive branch, or judge of the federal courts be removed from office; removal depends on a two-thirds vote of the Senate.
Decline in Presidential Popularity Over the First Term
Presidential Character