GOVT 2305 Quiz: Chapter 7

President Grover Cleveland noted which of the following about presidential appointments

"I make one integrate and ten enemies."

In 1937, the President's Committee on Administrative Management, also known as the Brownlow Committee, concluded its detailed analysis of the state of the presidency with which of the following

"The President needs help."

What is the trick to creating an energetic presidency

Avoiding ambitious individuals who would use the temporary advantages conveyed by national crisis to permanently alter the constitutional order

Congress's authority to declare war is, in most respects, a hollow check, for which of the following reasons

Because presidents can order an extended military engagement without a declaration of war

At least in part because of cable television, from 1965 to 2015 the percentage of households that watch the State of the Union address has done which of the following

Decreased from about 55 percent to roughly 30 percent

From the time of Franklin Roosevelt onward, generally speaking, which of the following is true about presidential travel

Each president has spent more days on both foreign and domestic political travels

Which of the following statements about presidential management is accurate

Even with the chief of staff system modern presidents use, every recent president has experienced serious staffing problems that have erupted into public controversy, if not scandal

Which of the following statements about executive orders is accurate

Executive orders are not laws because they are confined by the scope of discretion delegated to the President

What is the name of the strategy presidents use to promote their policies by engaging in intensive public relations to induce cooperation from other elected officeholders

Going public

When George H. W. Bush was President, during his first three years in office, he delivered a minor address on average once every three days, and when Bill Clinton became President, during his first three years in office he did which of the following

He delivered a minor address almost every other day

Which of the following statements about the President's veto is accurate

It allows presidents a clear, self-enforcing means of asserting their preferences

Compared with its nineteenth-century counterpart, which of the following is true about the modern cabinet

It has lost much of its luster as offices with real political clout

How does Article II define executive power

It is long on generalities and short on details but embodies limits on presidential discretion and does not enumerate broad administrative tools

Why has central clearance strengthened the President's hand in national policy

It prevents agency officials from casually expropriating the President's endorsement for their legislative initiatives

Which of the following is true about the line item veto

It was struck down by the Supreme Court as violating the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine

While helping presidents compete successfully with opposition-controlled Congresses, the development of cable television and other mass communications technology has also done which of the following

Nevertheless eroded the President's capacity to enlist television to go public

The two critical elements of the Executive Office of the Presidency are the

Office of Management and Budget and the White House Office

Which of the following is true about the lawmaking powers that Congress shares with the President

Power is shared by delegating to the President and the appointed executive branch the discretion to decide how best to implement and adjust policy to achieve its objectives

Examining the President's role as commander in chief reveals which of the following

Presidents often commit troops and engage hostilities and then go to Congress for authority to continue

The relationship between nineteenth-century presidents and their cabinets was based on which of the following

Reciprocity

It was fitting that a separate presidential staff would arise during Roosevelt's presidency because

Roosevelt persuaded Congress to create many relief agencies outside of the bureaucracy so this increased management responsibilities for the President

Whether a president succeeds in converting the clerkship of the office into real leadership has less to do with the authority of the modern office than with which of the following

The President's political skill

In Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, Richard Neustadt argues in part that despite sharp expansion of statutory authority and the dramatic growth in the institutional resources, which of the following is true

The demands of the office continue to exceed the resources available to meet those demands

The President's role in nineteenth-century politics was which of the following

The focus was during presidential election years as presidents pulled the party train but receded into the background during midterm election years

Which of the following statements about presidential power is accurate

The president has enough resources for coordinating national responses during emergencies, but insufficient authority to usurp the Constitution

The most important constitutional limitation on the President's leadership in foreign affairs is which of the following

The requirement that a two-thirds majority of the Senate ratify treaties

The Constitution gives presidents a modest role in the legislative arena including which of the following

The veto and the ability to call Congress into special session

Who was the first president to take an expansive view of presidential powers under the "take care" clause

Theodore Roosevelt

How does divided government affect the normal state of affairs in Washington

There is a zero-sum game as each side profits from the other side's failures

What is the fundamental dilemma that all U.S. presidents face

They have too little authority to satisfy the expectations for their performance

Which of the following statements about the President's role in the legislative process is correct

They start with their party allies, but while shared electoral fates provide incentives for cooperation, they will not bow to the President's wishes

President Eisenhower's 1959 "goodwill tour" around the world is generally recognized as the first international presidential travel that did which of the following

Was taken primarily for the purpose of garnering favorable publicity

It is possible to view the institutional presidency as

a presidential branch of the government separate and apart from the executive branch that attempts to coordinate the executive and legislative branches in its own behalf

Most executive orders

arise from the authority and responsibilities explicitly delegated to the President by law

Today, appearing on prime time television is the most dramatic way of going public

but presidents rely on it sparingly so they won't lose the public's attention

The President's leadership of public opinion

depends on the public's appraisal of him as president, and appeals from unpopular presidents are likely to be ignored

Presidents can sidestep treaty rejections through

executive agreements which are exempt from Senate ratification

The initial period of presidential goodwill

has gotten shorter because of partisan polarization as opponents quickly swing to disapproval so presidents often speak to audiences of like-minded partisans

President Obama's executive orders

have created political tension because he has addressed controversial issues such as immigration and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act

The Brownlow Report

ignored the fact that the Constitution withholds the kind of authority from the President that CEOs typically enjoy, and Congress initially rebuffed the proposal and only relented to a scaled-down proposal

The White House Office

is larger and more complex because of the expanded responsibilities of presidents and the centralization of tasks that used to be performed in agencies and departments

The Office of Management and Budget

is staffed by accountants, economists, and tax lawyers

Veto threats

must be credible, explicit, and public to be effective

Modern presidents deal with an opposition Congress by using vetoes and threats but also by

pulling decisions into the White House through executive orders, centralized administration, and broad assertions of executive privilege

Delegation to the President

rarely produces the outcome Congress intends since the President leads a separate branch of government largely insulated from congressional control

The constitutional foundations of the veto

represent a carefully tailored authority to check legislative abuses while denying the executive unilateral authority

The modern presidency

represents a cumulative product of the changing place of Washington in national and international affairs

The President's budget

sets the spending priorities of the government, provides valuable technical and political information to Congress, and represents an opening bid in negotiations

Modern presidential leadership in the policymaking process is distinguished by

sponsorship and promotion of major policies and the central role of the President in administration ensures them a major role in the legislative process

Signing statements are

statements presidents sometimes issue when signing a bill that they will not enforce or implement certain provisions of a bill

The President is commander in chief of the nation's armed forces because

the Constitution declares it

Franklin Roosevelt required all department communications to Congress that could affect future budgets be cleared through the Bureau of the Budget, the predecessor to

the Office of Management and Budget

The institutionalized presidency describes

the set of offices and staff created to assist the President

Opposition-controlled congresses write longer laws on average because they

try to anticipate efforts by an unsympathetic administration to suborn or redirect policy