Presidential Constraints
“Bring in the New Guy…” Despite the soaring rhetoric of presidential campaigns, presidents are severely constrained on their ability to enact a policy agenda. Numerous […]
Month: January 2023
Bush & Stem Cells
FRQ #1, Concept Application. Read the following scenario and answer the question below. “President Bush issued the first veto of his five-year-old administration yesterday, […]
The Nuclear Football
Don’t Leave Home Without It. If you look closely at photographs of the president you’ll notice there is a leather satchel suitcase never more than […]
Best President in History?
C-SPAN tries to Answer. This C-Span survey summarizes the scores these presidential historians and biographers gave U.S. presidents. Notice that in addition to an overall ranking, presidents […]
Presidential Libraries
Standing and Online Museums. Once a president leaves office their memory and legacy lives on in the form of presidential libraries. Congress appropriates a set […]