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However, the president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.
Presidential traditions also involve the president's role as head of government.
In other states the legislature is dominant and the president's role is almost purely ceremonial and apolitical, such as in Germany and India.
After the assassination of Park Chung-hee, prime minister Choi Kyu-hah took the president's role only to be usurped 6 days later by Major General Chun Doo-hwan's 1979 Coup d ' état of December Twelfth.
Hopkins hired Canadian-born mass-production specialist H. Oliver West to take over the president's role and return Canadair to profitability.
Although the formal powers of the president are limited, the president's role can be quite significant depending on his or her own activities.
He or she is aided by two vice-presidents who play an advisory role and deputise in the president's absence ; the predecessor of the current President is first, his successor second vice-president.
Once elections have been held and a new government and Parliament are in place, the president's powers and position revert to their largely ceremonial role.
The president's role was to " preside over the Annual Pugwash Conferences and, in addition, between Conferences, to offer his counsel and advice to the members of the Continuing Committee and the Secretary-General, and thereby assist them in the execution of the activities of the Movement.
If there is no clear majority in the House of Representatives, however, the president's role becomes more important: he or she must assume the role of arbitrator and open negotiations with the leaders of the various political parties, in the hope of finding someone whom a majority will accept as prime minister.
If the vice president and a majority of the president's cabinet declares that the president is unable to serve in that role, the vice president becomes acting president.
By decreasing the president's role in governance, executive power would further be concentrated in the prime minister, directly responsible to the cabinet and Sejm, as well as avoiding confusion over Poland's representation at international or EU summits.
His role was considered controversial given the scandal that the Clinton administration had suffered because of the president's involvement with the intern.
The next month, in November, Hatta also made the decision which took away the president's role as Head of Government and transferred it to a prime minister.
He is also signed on to the lead role in The Ambassador for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, in which he will play " a former U. S. vice president's privileged son, who is assigned an ambassadorship in Europe, where he quickly becomes the quintessential ugly American.
The newly created Leader position's role was as political leader, while internal CCF affairs and administration would remain the president's domain.
In this role, he secured the capital for the arrival of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, and was personally responsible for security at the new president's inaugural.
He or she is aided by three vice-presidents who play an advisory role and deputise in the president's absence.
Ralph receives the role of George Washington in a segment about the former US president's life, ahead of an obviously more talented classmate.
The role of a mission president's wife varies depending on the age of her children and her background.
Due to the numerous abuses of presidential power by Syngman Rhee in the First Republic, the president's role was greatly reduced by the new constitution, to a point almost entirely ceremonial.
Although the vice president may take an active role in establishing policy in the Executive Branch by serving on such committees and councils, the relative power of the Nigerian vice president's office depends upon the duties delegated by the president.

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The quality of a president's leadership is measured first by his success in building up the faculty.
When the budget goes to trustees for approval it is the president's budget, to which his faith and credit are committed ; ;
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
The majority is found within the president's lifeguard, while others patrol Bangui and the north-west parts of the country.
The Brazilian president's honor guard is provided ( amongst other units ) by a regiment of dragoons: the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment.
At the same time, discourse with other leaders of state constitutes exercising of foreign policy, which is the president's responsibility.
Under the 1991 constitution, in the event of the president's death, the prime minister, the National Assembly president, and the defense minister share power until a new election is held.
One of the most important of these powers — a legacy of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ; is the president's power to dissolve the National Assembly " in his discretion where, in has arisen in which the Government of the Federation cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an appeal to the electorate is necessary.
Pursuant to federal law, the only valid evidence of the president's resignation is a written instrument to that effect, signed by the president and delivered to the office of the Secretary of State.
The president's official residence is Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin.
The president's greatest power is their ability to choose the Prime Minister.
In that case, the president's power is diminished, since much of the de facto power relies on a supportive prime minister and National Assembly, and is not directly attributed to the post of president.
However, executive power in Senegal is concentrated in the president's hands.
The department is headed by a minister of defence and national security, who is a civilian and a member of the president's Cabinet.
On the other hand, federal midterm elections ( where only Congress and not the president is up for election ) are usually regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's performance, with voters either voting in or out the president's party's candidates, which in turn helps the next session of Congress to either pass or block the president's agenda, respectively.
The term White House is regularly used as a metonym for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and for the president's administration and advisers in general.
( The slogan " Fifty-four Forty or Fight !” is often incorrectly regarded as being part of this president's election campaign rhetoric ; it became a popular slogan in the months after the election, used by those proposing the most extreme solution to the Oregon boundary dispute ).
The attorney general serves as a member of the president's cabinet, and is one of only two cabinet department heads who are not given the title secretary, besides the now independent postmaster general.

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However, with the president's economic cabinet attempting to reconcile a wide range of views, the country's economic reform program had largely stalled.
Modern elements of tribute are restricted to highly formal and ceremonial rituals, such as: formal gifts being given to prove either fealty or loyalty upon the inauguration of a president ; a wedding of a president's child while the president is in office ; the accession or the marriage of a member of a royal family ; and even in those show business marriages that are largely staged, where studios, banks, and other stars prove their loyalty through expensive gifts in the hope of future benefits, which if not given will result in loss of business.
The vote was largely seen as a referendum on Truman, whose approval rating had sunk to 32 % over the president's controversial handling of a wave of post-war labor strikes, such as a nationwide railroad strike in May, at a time when Americans depended on train service for both commuter and long-distance travel.
The vote was largely seen as a referendum on Truman, whose approval rating had sunk to 32 percent over the president's controversial handling of a wave of post-war labor strikes, including a United Auto Workers strike against Ford and General Motors in 1945, a United Mine Workers strike starting in April 1946, and a national railroad worker strike that began in May.
The new Assembly was largely a figurehead that would occasionally rubber stamp the president's decrees.

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