But people still need to recognise we have an institutional responsibility to do oversight on the President” Garry Bass, Congress. This quote supports my view on the Congress being a watchdog. If the Congress is a lapdog, the President can have a free ride on running the country how he wishes and not represent the people’s view. However that is not the case as the President cannot do everything which pleases him. However, looking at the statistics such as Bill Clintons presidency, in the first 2 years which was a united government, Congress exercised limited oversight, and when needed to, asked softball questions, however , when Republicans took over Congress, things got much harder as they seek to hold the President to account, and after a while, impeach.
• Nixon was the first president-elect since 1848 to not bring in one house of congress for his party in an initial election. • Wallace did worse than expected. He won 9,906,473 popular votes. • Wallace had also demonstrated the power of the continuing power of the populist politics. The Obituary of Lyndon Johnson • Lyndon Johnson returned to his ranch in January 1969 and died there four years later.
He was victorious in accomplishing a healthy peacetime economy however, only some of his social program plans became law. During his presidency, the Congress was more Republican in its membership than it had been during Roosevelt's time, and did not frequently share Truman's desire to build on the heritage of the “New Deal.” The Truman government went significantly beyond the New Deal in the part of civil rights. Even though the conservative Congress frustrated Truman's wish to attain significant civil rights legislation, he was able to use his Presidential powers to accomplish some significant changes (Hamilton 10). By so doing, Truman issued executive commands uniting the armed forces and forbidding racial inequity in Federal employment. President Truman established a Civil Rights Committee and permitted the Department of Justice to dispute before the Supreme Court on behalf of plaintiffs against
Romney lost as freshman as unknown Politian, but that defeat experience made him better and stronger Politian to lead him to become the 70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) the State always has been Democratic State. During his tenure as the Governor he accomplished economy revenue to its State by raising special gasoline retailer fee by two cents per gallon lead to $60 million, raising various fees by more than $300 million, including those for driver’s licenses, marriage licenses, and gun licenses. The most significant notable accomplishment as Governor the “Romneycare” one of kind the nation has now the health care requiring nearly all Massachusetts residents to buy health insurance coverage or face escalate tax penalties such as the loss of their personal income tax
Warren G. Harding once declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment…” A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding's speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. "1 Their very murkiness was effective, since Harding's view on the League of Nations remained unclear. As it turned out he was against the League of Nations, but this was not found out until after he became the twenty-ninth president. As a result of rarely taking a stand on an issue, he had few enemies to make any. Who would have suspected that the man to succeed Woodrow Wilson, America's most visionary President, would be a man who some considered one of the worst?
Considered by many, one of these extraordinary speakers is our one and only President Clinton. William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas August 19, 1946. Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States. Serving two terms in the White house from 1993 to 200, he was inaugurated at age 46 and was the third-youngest president in U.S history. Clinton took office at the end of the Cold War which made him the first president of the baby boomer generation.
In history, there have been many American presidents to change and alter the United States into the modern-world it is today. One of the most prominent United States Presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, served the U.S. four presidential terms. He help change the U.S into what it is today. Franklin Roosevelt served as the thirty-second president in 1933, he was one of the only men to serve 4 terms as president. FDR beat out Herbert Hoover in the elections of 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression.
For many in western Europe and Japan, the united States looked like the ‘good’ power in the Cold War compared to the evil of Soviet Communism. The Untied States was never a police state although it did support police states elsewhere in the world so long as those police states were opposed to Communism. The National Security Act of 1947 established the basic national security organizations of the United States–the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense the institutions that dominated the United States throughout the Cold War. President Truman had to struggle between paying the bills of the military to fight the Cold War but not to overburden the economy through excessive government expenditure. The Americans found the right balance
He was elected as the Attorney General of Arkansas in 1976 and served until 1978. In 1978, at age 32, he became the Governer of Arkansas. This put him in the position of being the youngest Governer in that state,and in this country in the last fourty years. Later, in 1992, Mr. Clinton was elected as our President. He was later impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became effective January 1, 1994 to implement a free trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico and reduced tariffs and some fees to make it less expensive for companies to do business in one of the countries listed. They also help with disputes but does not include a common currency. (Daniels, Radebaugh, Sullivan, 2013 pp. 302-303) The NAFTA was signed by President George H. W. Bush, Mexican President Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1992. Some changes had been made by the 3 countries involved in 1993, then the U. S. House of Representatives and the Senate approved the agreement in November 1993 and finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 1993 and took effect January 1, 1994.