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CHAPTER 7: PRESIDENCY:--POSITION OF STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS?

Pages 182-183, 186F, 192-211, (including 199F, and 208, footnote), 258, 274, 304, 802F, 807

KEY DATES

A. 1865: Civil War is ended President Lincoln assassinated/Jim Crow laws require segregation

B. 1929: Stock market crash begins the Great Depression that leads to the F.D.R.’s New Deal

C. 1945: F.D.R. dies/ World War II ends/atomic age begins/United Nations is founded in S.F.

D. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas overturns Plessy v. Ferguson

PRESIDENTIAL ABBREVIATIONS, SLOGANS AND ADMINISTRATIONS (pages 186F, 199F, 802)

A. Theodore Roosevelt /T.R.------ (R) ----------------- Square Deal/New Nationalism, p. 802

B. Woodrow Wilson/W. W. ------ (D) ----------------- New Freedom, p. 802

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt/F.D.R. (D) ----------------- New Deal, pp. 274, entire page; 802

D. Harry S. Truman/H.S.T. ------ (D) ----------------- Fair Deal, p. 802

E. John F. Kennedy/J.F.K. ------- (D) ----------------- New Frontier, p. 802

F. Lyndon B. Johnson/L.B.J. ---- (D) ----------------- Great Society, pp. 274, top; 802

VICE PRESIDENCY (pages 192-194)

A. Vice Presidents who became President after the New Deal

1. Truman (D) ---------------------------------- served with F.D.R.

2. Nixon (R) ---------------------------------- served with Eisenhower/Ike

3. Johnson (D) -------------------------------- served with J.F.K.

4. Ford (R) ------------------------------------ served with Nixon

5. Bush (R) ------------------------------------ served with Reagan

B. Other vice presidents and vice presidential nominees: chosen to “balance” ticket?

1. Geraldine Ferraro (D) ----------------------- ran with Mondale in 1984

2. Spiro Agnew (R) ---------------------------- served with Nixon

3. Nelson Rockefeller (R) ---------------------- served with Ford

4. Al Gore (D) ----------------------------------- served with Clinton

IMPEACHMENT (page 208, including footnote, and pages. 122, 258, 304)

A. Who impeaches? Who may be impeached? Has a President been impeached?

B. Who tries the individual who has been impeached? Who has been tried?

C. What follows conviction? Has a President ever been convicted? Has a federal judge?

RELIGIONS OF PRESIDENTS AND OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (page 158F)

CHOICES OF A PRESIDENT RECEIVING LEGISLATION FROM CONGRESS (pages 197-198)

A. Do something

1. Sign bill within 10 days (bill becomes law)

2. Return bill to Congress /veto (possible override of veto by Congress by 2/3 vote )

3. Item veto/line item veto (Not allowed to the president; allowed to some governors)

B. Do nothing

1. Allow a bill to become law without signature after 10 days while Congress in session

2. Pocket veto of a bill sent to the President within last 10 days of Congress’s session

EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY: reprieve/delay; commutation/shortening; pardon (or amnesty)/restoration of rights

PAGES FOR CHAPTER 8 (184-188, 191-192, 209F) AND CHAPTER 16 (187-188, 200-202)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/presidents-plain.html

http://www.ripon.edu/dept/pogo/Presidency/Pres.List.HTML

http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS

http://www.chapman.edu/nixon

http://www.watergate.com 8-31-98