The Executive Office of the President was established in 1939, but has grown dramatically since then. The Executive Office of the President, also known as the White House staff, plays a very important role in politics today. The White House staff has a tremendous workload, is very politicized, and rarely last two terms. The White House Chief of Staff plays a crucial role in the White House and Washington. Without the White House staff the presidency would change greatly. They are key to everyday operations of the executive branch. How manageable is the workload of the White House staff? What makes it more or less manageable? The White House staff workload is extremely difficult to manage. Linda Douglass was a communications aide at the white …show more content…
Gregory Craig says, “No matter what the job, each administration is different from the last administration, so everybody is learning the job from the beginning and there’s enormous pressure to get it right.” (NYTimes Obama) However, the job can become more difficult based on the country’s current situation. When the Obama administration took over the country had been through a recession, and was currently involved in the War on Terror in Iraq (NYTimes Obama). This alone would be giant pressure for the White House Staff, but they also had to deal with the overhaul of the nation’s health care system (NYTimes Obama). When a country is experiencing great change or economic distress this greatly increases the workload of the White House Staff, and makes it even more …show more content…
The president decides his policies and strategy for his term in office. The White House Staff is present to help implement the president’s policies smoothly, and help many aspects of his presidency run smoothly. It is important that the White House speaks with one voice, and this is accomplished through following the president’s policies. While the staff does not choose the tasks they preform, but they do run the day-to-day operations of the office. This is why the president will choose someone he trusts to preform the tasks well, and the way he would want. At the beginning of a term the president is more likely to choose individuals who believe in the promises he ran his campaign on (National Journal). However, later in his term the president will often fill these positions with people who are loyal (National Journal). This will decrease friction and disagreement within the White House, and help promote a single message. Obama, in his second term, has been filling key staff positions with people loyal to him. This is to create a unity between himself and his staff. He will be facing a Republican held house and senate. Obama will be busy fighting with congress, and does not need fighting within his own staff. Individuals who have positions that deal with the press must be saying things the way the president wants. Speechwriters must articulate the message and use the language the president wants. The president has
Through Paul Quirk’s three presidency models that are self-reliant, minimalist, and strategic competence, we learn that there are three models that show us how the presidents use one of them to implement in the term of their presidency (POLS510 Lesson). According to Paul Quirk’s definitions about these three models, each and every president would be easily classified because of their governing style, such as being self-reliant that a president knows everything and is confident what to do and how to act, being minimalist that a president does not need to understand every and each political events and activities what’s going around homeland and world, and the president’s secretaries would take care of everything, and being strategic competence
The President of the United States is instrumental in the running of the country. He serves as the chief executive, chief diplomat, commander in chief, chief legislator, chief of state, judicial powers, and head of party. Article II of the Constitution states that the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress. He also is tasked with the authority to appoint fifteen leaders of the executive departments which will be a part of the President’s cabinet. He or she is also responsible for speaking with the leaders the CIA and other agencies that are not part of his cabinet because these agencies play a key role in the protection of the US. The President also appoints the heads of more than 50 independent
Skowornek writes, “these presidents each set out to retrieve from a far distant, even mythic, past fundamental values that they claim had been lost in the indulgences of the received order, In this way, the order-shattering and order-affirming impulses of the presidency in politics became mutually reinforcing.” (Skowornek, 37, book). These presidents are in the best position not because they are exceptional at their job but because the time they came into office offered them the elasticity and authority to make new orders and be welcomed by the public because he is taking the country out of its troubles and challenges.
This position requires the management of the Country by implementing the laws, nominations of officials, grant pardons, serve as Commander-in-Chief of the military, veto lows passed by Congress, and negotiate treaties. The President is also responsible proposing yearly budgets and helping boost economic development. The many divided tasks between Congress and the Presidency has made it
Despite ‘The West Wing’ having seven seasons, the TV show easily gets through crises without the need of bureaucracy debates. In the modern day politics, it may take years to propose solutions to national problems. The President may feel urgent need to solve a certain problem, but it will need to pass through his cabinets before ever making its way to actually solving a situation. ‘The West Wing’ simply accomplishes the task of making the challenges of today’s government look easy to the viewer. Rosenberg writes, “There are few impasses an eloquent appeal cannot solve, and almost no foreign-policy conundrum for which a clever solution cannot be conceived” (3). For example, throughout the show, the concern of foreign policy is a point of stress on the President’s agenda. However, instead of using realistic problem solving methods, Aaron Sorkin proves that “national interests are no match for our protagonist’s force of personality” (4). It seems that in ‘The West Wing’, the personalities of the characters help to solve national problems, when in reality it is far from the truth. The constituents of the show further add in the lack of realistic education, proving that the show is strictly for entertainment value
President Obama was no different. Five weeks after the election, President Obama met with his economic and political advisors that presented him with their reports of the rapidly deteriorating economic conditions and their plan to hinder the economy from collapsing. President Obama delegated the legislative work to party members and committees because, as a former legislator, he believed that giving Congress discretion in writing the bill would contribute to its enactment (Wayne, 2013). “In general, crises, when they first occur, enhance opportunities for presidential leadership” Stephen J. Wayne stated in Rivals of Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations. “Members of Congress, much like the general public, look to the president and rally behind him” (Wayne, 2013). At first, president Obama hit the ground running after he won the election, and immediately started to figure out with his advisors on how to get the United States back on its feet again. And Congress members look up to the president just as much as American citizens do when the United States faces a crisis. Which in turn can boost the president’s and Congress’ relationship to American citizens. However, Obama’s operating style spawned criticism from both the Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats companied that he did not give much support for their
Political scientists have continually searched for methods that explain presidential power and success derived from using that power effectively. Five different approaches have been argued including the legal approach, presidential roles approach, Neustadtian approach, institutional approach, and presidential decision-making approach. The legal approach says that all power is derived from a legal authority (U.S. Constitution). The presidential roles approach contends that a president’s success is derived from balancing their role as head of state and head of government. The Neustadtian approach contends that “presidential power is the power to persuade“ (Neustadt, p. 11). The institutional approach contends that political climate and institutional relations are what determines presidential power. The last approach, decision-making, provides a more psychological outlook that delves into background, management styles, and psychological dispositions to determine where a president’s idea of power comes from. From all of these, it is essential to study one at a time in order to analyze the major components of each approach for major strengths and weaknesses.
Technology is growing fast, as is the new generations branching off with new forms of media and devices that provide us with the news. News and politics have had difficulty when informing its public and community of the events that happen in their community. Now the media and news are growing to reform to the earlier generation’s way of receiving the news and events related to them, by using media and popular culture. According to Wodak, for politics to air and to engage and intrigue its public, it must need scandal, rumour, and speculation (45). The West Wing, is a clear example of where the news and politics enter into the world of entertainment, but still informing its audience of the political world and events they may face. I will be analyzing The West Wing television series in relation to the representations of gender, race, and politics with support from examples and scholarly sources.
Understanding and evaluating presidents’ performance often poses challenges for political experts. The nation votes one president at the time and each presidency faces different tests. The environments surrounding a presidency have a tremendous impact on the success and failure of that presidency. In addition, the president exercises his power through a check and balance system embody in the Constitution. As stated in (Collier 1959), the Constitution created a government of “separated institutions sharing power.” As a result, a president works with others institutions of the government to shape the nation’s agenda. Thus, determining a presidential performance becomes difficult, especially when it comes to comparing the performance among presidencies.
.... Having many roles offers the opportunity for staff members to become overwhelmed and dissatisfied. Dr. Mork mentioned that staff support is imperative.
The Executive Branch role is crucial operation of the executive branch is to assure that laws are carried out and enforced and aid the day to day responsibilities of the federal government to include “collecting taxes, safeguarding the homeland and representing the United States political and economic interests around the world” (Phaedra Trethan, 2013).
Richard E. Neustadt, the author of Presidential Power, addresses the politics of leadership and how the citizens of the United States rate the performance of the president's term. We measure his leadership by saying that he is either "weak or "strong" and Neustadt argues that we have the right to do so, because his office has become the focal point of politics and policy in our political system. Neustadt brings to light three main points: how we measure the president, his strategy of presidential influence, and how to study them both. Today we deal with the President himself and his influence on government action. The president now includes about 2000 men and women, the president is only one of them, but his performance can not be measured without focusing on himself.
The changes that formed the modern presidency shaped a presidency that uses power aggressively and significantly. The modern presidency
The White House requires all of its employees to work closely with ethics counsel to ensure compliance and has aggressively required employees to recuse or divest where the law requires.'
The executive branch includes the head of government/head of state and their cabinet. As the leader of the state, the executive is considered the “top-tier of government.” Their job is to be the political leader of a country. In the case of