The document discusses the various offices within the Executive Branch of the US government. It outlines the roles of the President, Vice President, White House Office, Executive Office, Cabinet, and Independent Agencies and Commissions. It provides examples of the major roles and responsibilities of each office.

1. Offices within the Executive Branch

2.  Take out reading materials from
Friday (handout packet)
 Term Limits:
 22nd Amendment  2 terms
 Can serve up to ten years if you
enter office mid-term
 Precedent set by George
Washington.
 Read Washington’s Farewell
Address (1796) and answer
reading questions.

3.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(March 4, 1933 – April 12,
1945)
 Served three terms, won four
elections.
 Lyndon Johnson (1963)
 Vice president 1961
 Allowed to run twice.
 Gerald Ford (1974)
 Nixon’s term began in 1973,
took over for Spiro Dec. 6,
1973.
 Allowed to run once.

4.  Set by Congress.
 The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a
compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he
shall not receive within that period any other emolument
(compensation) from the United States, or any of them.
 Paraphrase the selection from Article II Section I about
presidential compensation.
 Speaking fees
 Writing memoirs
 Serving on corporate boards of directors

5. If a pay raise were to affect Obama in his second term, by when
would it have to be passed?
Inauguration Date: Monday, January 21, 2012

6.  25th Amendment
 Read the text and paraphrase each section of the 25th Amendment
 Invoked six times since ratification:
 Gerald Ford as V.P (1973) when Spiro Agnew resigned from the
office of V.P.
 Gerald Ford as President (1974)
 Nelson Rockefeller as V.P. (1974) when Gerald Ford became
president
 George H.W. Bush (1985) to take over for Reagan after
assassination attempt
 Dick Cheney (2002, 2007) while George W. bush underwent a
colonoscopy.

7.  Objective: SWBAT define presidential
requirements, terms, compensation, and
succession and analyze the Constitutional roots of
each.3
 DOL: Given a multiple choice/constructed response
exit ticket, SW (80% accuracy)
 Identify the correct response
 Write a 2-3 sentence justification for each using
evidence from the Constitution

8. 1) According to the term limits imposed by the
Constitution
1) The president cannot be elected to the office of president
more than twice
2) The president and vice president cannot serve more than
two terms in office
3) The president and his cabinet cannot serve more than eight
years in office
4) The president cannot be elected to more than four terms of
office (Roosevelt)
5) There are no limits on the number of terms a president may
serve by tradition, since George Washington’s refusal to
serve a third term, president’s only serve two terms.

9.  All of the following are constitutional
requirements to become president except:
1) Natural-born citizen
2) 35 years old
3) Resident for 14 years in Washington D.C.
4) A resident of the United States for 14 years

10. 3) Write a detailed description to explain
presidential compensation.
▪ Which body of government sets the president’s salary?
▪ When can a salary change take into effect?

11.  Objective: SWBAT define the offices and roles of the
executive branch.
 DOL: Given a multiple choice quiz, SW (80% accuracy)
 Select the executive role that best fits the description.
 Write a 1-2 sentence justification for each.
 Relevance: Barack Obama does not operate alone.
Rather, there are more than 400 people who help with
office work, and create policy decisions. Many of the
current decisions that impact you as an American
citizen (education policy, America’s decision to go to
war, etc.) do not solely belong to Obama himself.

12.  President
 Vice President
 White House Office
 Executive Office
 Cabinet
 Independent Agencies and Commissions

13.  Roles:
 Preside over the senate
▪ Vote in order to break a tie
 Decide the question of
presidential disability
 Take over the presidency
 12th Amendment:
electors to vote for a
president/vice president.

14.  President’s closest
assistants
 Chief of staff
 Press secretary
 Appointed without
Senate confirmation.
 Rule of propinquity [0-5]
 Power belongs to those
who are in the room
when a decision is made.

15. Pyramid Model Circular Model
President
Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff
Press Senior
Secretary Advisor
Councilor to
the President President
Press
Secretary
Senior Advisor
Senior Deputy Chief
Advisor of Staff

16.  Identify the relationship between the White House Office Staff
and the President throughout the clip.
 Explain the roles of the White House Office using evidence
from the clip.

17.  Report directly to the president
 Appointees must be confirmed by the Senate
 National Security Council
 Office of Management and Budget
 National Economic Council
 In your groups, highlight:
1) The major roles of the executive office
2) Describe one recent decision of the office that highlights
that role
3) Your own evaluation: is this office crucial to the success of
the Executive branch? Should we alter its functions, Etc.?

18.  Independent of president’s control
 Serve for fixed terms and can be removed only “for
cause”
 Function to keep the government and economy
running smoothly.
 Federal Reserve Board
 Federal Communications Commission
 Interstate Commerce Commission
 Securities and Exchange Commission

19.  Oldest traditional body of the executive branch –
“inner cabinet”
 Secretary of state
 Secretary of the treasury
 Secretary of war
 Attorney general
 Focus on department issues, compete for federal
budget.