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