Presidency and the Executive

Illustrated Concepts, Facts, and Figures

• American Civil Religion in Presidential Inaugural Addresses

• Cabinet Offices

• Federal Budget Deficits/Surpluses 1960-2004

• Number of Governmental Employees Over Time

• Presidential Approval Average by Year of Term

• Presidential Inaugural Addresses and Civil Religion

• Presidential Vetoes, Truman to Clinton

• Unified/Divided Party Control of Government, 1933-2005

Audio Features

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Delivers "Day of Infamy" Speech, Dec. 8, 1941 (9:47)

• President George W. Bush addresses the nation on on September 11, 2001 (4:22)

Video Features

• A Watergate Burglar Admits Involvement to Congress (1:25)

• Carter Urges Americans to Faces Facts of the Energy Crisis (1:01)

• Clinton Sounds Core Themes in his First Inaugural, 1993 (1:02)

• Crises and the Expansion of Presidential Power (Bruce Buchanan - 6:24)

• FDR Outlines a Plan for Economic Recovery During a Fireside Chat, Oct. 23, 1933 (3:44)

• FDR Signing the Social Security Act, 1935 (1:55)

• JFK addressing Congress on the need for Medicare (0:34)

• Nixon Concludes His "Checkers" Speech (1:29)

• Nixon declares "I am not a crook," 1973 (0:34)

• President George W. Bush Signs Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Nov. 5, 2003 (1:12)

• President Nixon Resigns, August 9, 1974 (3:33)

• Reagan Argues for Tax Cuts (1:09)

• Reagan's Surgeon General Initiates a Communications Stategy to Combat AIDS (0:29)

• Roosevelt Issues a Call to Arms Against Economic Crisis (0:39)

• The Constitution and Executive Power (Bruce Buchanan - 3:45)

• The Constitutional and Political Basis for Impeachment (Barbara Jordan - 6:14)

Cartoon Features

• If You Were As Tall As Your Vote For President

• The Teapot Dome Scandal

Image Features

• Crowd Gathered For President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration

• FDR and Churchill in Casablanca

• Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy

• President George H.W. Bush taking the Oath of Office

• President George W. Bush and U2's Bono in the Oval Office

• President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• President Lyndon Baines Johnson Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• President Nixon and Elvis in the Oval Office

• President-Elect Woodrow Wilson and President William Howard Taft

• The White House

Web Resources

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