1. GEORGE TO BARACK AND BACK THE PRESIDENCY

2. THE LIVING PRESIDENTS

3. LOOK AT THE LIST OF PRESIDENTS Write something about each President that you already know about from the list beside their name Circle the Presidents that you have never heard of or know nothing about Compare with someone else when you finish

4. GEORGE WASHINGTON 1789-1797 He was the first to hold the office, therefore, he, perhaps more than any other, was able to define the role of the President.

5. JAMES MADISON 1809-1817 Father of the Constitution Brilliant politician but poor Commander in Chief (is that fair?)

6. READ THE BIOGRAPHIES OF WASHINGTON AND MADISON WERE THEY “GOOD’ PRESIDENTS?

7. FOREIGN POLICY PRESIDENT VS. CONGRESS

8. AMERICA’S PLAN FOR INTERACTING WITH OTHER NATIONS “We must have a policy to guide our relations with every country in every part of the world. No country is so remote from us that it may not someday be involved in a matter that threatens the peace…Who knows what may happen in the future? Our foreign policy must be universal. (President Harry Truman, 1946)

9. GOALS OF FOREIGN POLICY Promote national security Establish international trade Avoid wars (bad for trade) Spread democratic ideals around the world

10. FOREIGN POLICY BUREAUCRACY State Department Defense Department Central Intelligence Agency National Security Council Leon Panetta (SecDef)

11. LYNDON JOHNSON (1963-1969) Johnson was a popular social liberal (“Great Society”), but his escalation of the Vietnam War outraged much of the nation “The State Department wants to solve everything with words, and the generals, with guns.”

12. THE CONSTITUTION IS NEBULOUS President Commander in Chief Deploys troops Gained immense executive power after WWII and September 11, 2001 Congress Can declare war Can cut funding for defense Tipped the balance of war powers in their favor after the unpopular Vietnam War

13. PRESIDENT APPOINTS AMBASSADORS Must be approved by the Senate About 150 Only sent to countries whose government we recognize as legitimate (Not Cuba, N. Korea, Bhutan, and Taiwan) GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS

14. PRESIDENT MAKES TREATIES BUT SENATE APPROVES (AS USUAL) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) – major treaty in U.S. foreign policy Mutual defense pact between U.S. and Europe after WWII (70% of world’s defense spending