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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of the presidency, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The President and the Bureaucracy

In current news, as Alannah points out below, Pat Robertson has endorsed Giuliani. Maybe he did not catch the YouTube video featuring Giuliani with Donald Trump.

As for the vice presidency and the 25th Amendment ....

Click here for information on the Clinton cabinet and here for the Bush (43) cabinet. Consider the criteria in Pika (p. 230):
  • Political experience;
  • Clientele or ethnic identification;
  • Technical expertise;
  • Pretenure friendship.
Here is a long list of independent agencies.

Here is information and rules and executive orders.

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