Mr. President
Executive Office of the President
The Executive Office of the President is made up of ______offices and agencies. These offices, such as the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget help ______and ______the policy and programs of the President.
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Created During ______Administration (1939)
Serves as Support and Staff Agency for President
Key Components
White House Office
Headed by ______
Office of Management and Budget
National Security Council
President, VP, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
National Security Advisor – ______
Council of ______Advisors
Office of National Drug Control Policy
From the Whitehouse Website:
The Executive Office of the PresidentBelow are some of the offices included in the Executive Office of the President.
Council of Economic Advisers
Council on Environmental Quality
Domestic Policy Council
National Economic Council
National Security Council
Office of Administration
Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Office of Management and Budget
Office of National AIDS Policy
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Office of Science & Technology Policy
Office of the United States Trade Representative
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
USA Freedom Corps
White House Military Office
How do you organize it?
______and Pyramids:
Free-flow and ______-keepers
The EOP Big Three:
If you can’t run with the big dogs…
The White House Staff
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/card-bio.html
President George W. Bush hosts a meeting in the Oval Office, December 21, 2001. Members from the Office of Homeland Security and other White House staff attended the meeting. The participants included (clockwise from the bottom), President George W. Bush, Governor Tom Ridge, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Admiral Steve Abbot, Karen Hughes, Dean McGrath, Karl Rove, Albert Hawkins, Mitch Daniels, Josh Bolton, and Andy Card.
Office of Management and Budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
Established ______
(Replaced Bureau of Budget)
Prepares the President's ______Budget
______the Annual Budget
National Security Council
On Wednesday evening, March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush meets with his national security and communications advisors after authorizing military operations. Present, from left, are Steve Hadley, Deputy National Security Advisor; Karen Hughes, special advisor to the President; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard B. Myers; Dan Bartlett, Communications Director; Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; and Secretary of State Colin Powell. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Established 1947
______and the Cold War
NSA and CIA created by National Security Act
______Military and Foreign policies
Department of ______, Department of ______, NSA, sometimes CIA
Presidential Cabinets
Not Just for Kitchens!
The First Cabinet
Washington and his cabinet: left to right, President Washington, Secretary of War Henry Knox, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph
Cabinets
The tradition of the Cabinet dates back to the ______of the Presidency itself.
One of the principal purposes of the Cabinet (drawn from Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution) is to ______the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of their respective offices.
The Cabinet includes the Vice President and, by law, the heads of ____ executive departments:
The Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, ______, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, ______, Transportation, ______, and Veterans Affairs, and the ______General make up the cabinet.
Under President George W. Bush, Cabinet-level rank also has been accorded to the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Director, Office of Management and Budget; the Director, National Drug Control Policy; and the U.S. Trade Representative
Cabinet Organization
Heads of Major Executive Branch Agencies
Includes 14 Department Secretaries and Attorney General
______May Assign Cabinet Rank to Others
Role of Cabinet
Advisory Role
Significant ______in Presidential Reliance on Cabinet
Executive Branch Organizations
Executive Agencies
Important Executive Branch Agencies, just ______in the Cabinet
Examples:
OPM (Office of Personnel Management)
______
CIA
Governmental Corporations
Semi-independent
Governed by a board of ______
TVA (TennesseeValley Authority)
US______Service (1970)
Commissions
Regulatory Commissions
Regulate and make ______for certain parts of the economy
ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)
Railroads, busses, ______
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Telephone, Radio, TV
______,______,______
The Federal ______Board
Monetary Policy, interest rates
Chairman: ______
Commissions (Continued)
Commissions have functions from all three branches!
They ______(rulemaking)
They ______(administer their own rules)
They ______(administrative hearings and orders)
Members are ______by the President, relatively ______, bipartisan, and have long terms of service.
These are “______power” positions with little direct control from the voters.
The Creation of the Department of Homeland Security (March 2003)
______plus employees dealing with:
______& Transportation Security
Emergency Preparedness & Response
Information Analysis & ______Protection
Science & Technology
Management
Coast Guard
Secret Service
Citizenship & ______Services
Inspector General
Soon you’re talking real money!
DHS Budget in Brief - Fiscal Year 2005The Fiscal Year 2005 budget for the Department of Homeland Security builds upon the significant investments to date that improve our safeguards against terrorism, while also sustaining the many important departmental activities not directly related to our fight against terrorism. The President's budget clearly demonstrates the continuing priority placed on Homeland Security in requesting total resources for FY 2005 of ______. This is an increase of 10% above the comparable FY 2004 resource level. This includes all sources of funding, such as discretionary and mandatory appropriations, offsetting collections from user fees, and trust funds.
The Vice President
Main job: to get up each day and inquire about the ______of the president…
Not worth a “pitcher of warm spit”.
John Nance Garner (Roosevelt’s VP)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/
The First Lady
http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/
They absolutely “run the ______” from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt to Betty Ford to Hillary Clinton to Laura Bush