The American presidency combines the role of chief of government and chief of the state. As chief of the government, the president is called on to act in the manner of the British prime minister, as a partisan political leader. As chief of state, the president is the equivalent of the British monarch: the ceremonial leader of the nation and the living symbol of its unity. Because the presidency embodies both roles, the general public tends to evaluate it by standards that seem contradictory. Americans want the president to be gentle and decent but forceful and decisive, open and caring

The American president holds the role of Head of Armed Forces and has complete economic and miliatary control which translates into immense international political power. Watson acknowledged that the president is, of course, not a free agent in world politics, which in any event is increasingly perceived as deeply interconnected with domestic matters. But a president more or less defines what a crisis is and in these matters has a freer hand than in domestic crisis. Because an international crisis involving the United States includes far more than the just this country. Therefor the American president is an essentially a powerful figure, much more powerful domestically and internationally than the French president, and is at an exceedingly important vantage point.

presidents in recent years have set up a Congressional Liaison Office in the White House. Presidential aides keep abreast of all important legislative activities and try to persuade senators and representatives of both parties to support administration policies.

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Despite the constitutional provision that "all legislative powers" shall be vested in the Congress, the president, as chief formulator of public, has a major legislative role. The president can veto any bill passed by Congress and unless two-thirds in each house vote to override the veto, the bill does not become law. Much of the legislation dealt with by Congress is drafted at the iniative of the executive branch. In and annual and special messages to Congress, the president may propose legislation that they believe is necessary. If Congress should adjourn without acting on those proposals, the president has the power to call it into special session. But beyond all this, the president, as head of a political party and the principal executive officer of the United States government, is in a position to influence public opinion and thereby to influence the course of legislation to Congress. As a fact stated by McHenry , to improve their working relationships with Congress, !

ent to of the French respondents expected the high accomplishments promised of the president elect.

The United States Constitution says that the president, "must take care that the laws be faithfully executed." To carry out this huge responsibility the president resides over the executive branch of the government, a vast organization numbering several million people, and in addition has several legislative and judicial powers.

Among the president's constitutional powers is that of appointing important public official; presidential nomination of federal judges , including members of the Supreme Court, is subject to confirmation by the Senate. This is similar to the French president being able to appoint a Prime Mi

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