Prev Next

How the U.S. President Works

Lots More Information

Related HowStuffWorks Articles

More Great Links

  • Akhtar, Allana and Madison Hoff. "19 financial perks of being the president of the United States." Business Insider. Feb. 14, 2020. (Sept. 8, 2020) https://www.businessinsider.com/financial-perks-president-of-the-united-states-2018-7
  • Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. "America's First Families." Simon and Schuster. 2000. "http://books.google.com/books?id=44elUBU7FZkC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=famous+presidential+first+families&source=web&ots=wB9tFu_R41sig=-fBYgDGwQ5OCarHp4vVvzDbmUp4#PPA68,M1
  • Califano, Joseph A. Jr. "What was really great about the Great Society." Washington Monthly. October 1999. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9910.califano.html
  • Cathey, Libby, et al. "RNC 2020 Day 4: Trump accepts nomination from White House." ABC News. Aug. 27, 2020. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-2020-day-trump-accept-nomination-white-house/story?id=72577769
  • Crutsinger, Martin and Aversa, Jeannine. "US government may take ownership stakes in banks." Associated Press. October 9, 2008. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/financial_meltdown
  • Curtin, Michael. "A tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy." Museum of Broadcast Communications. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tourofthew/tourofthew.htm
  • De Lew, Nancy, M.A., M.A.P.A. "Overview: 40th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid." Health Care Financing Review. Winter 2005-2006. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareFinancingReview/downloads/05-06Winpg5.pdf.
  • Evon, Dan. "Did Rush Limbaugh Refer to 12-Year-Old Chelsea Clinton as a Dog?" Snopes. Feb. 12, 2020. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-chelsea-clinton/
  • Fitzgerald, Michael. "War and the American Presidency." Humanist. March-April 2005. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_2_65/ai_n11850253/print?tag=artBody;col1
  • Glastris, Paul and Nancy LeTourneau. "Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments, Revisited." Washington Monthly. January/February 2017. (Sept. 8, 2020) https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
  • Lithwick, Dahlia. "What war powers does the president have?" Slate. September 13, 2001. http://www.slate.com/id/1008290
  • McCabe, Kathy. "Is there a life after the presidency?" USA Today. January 17, 2001. http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/afterpresidency.htm
  • Mitchell, Alison. "Only Congress can declare war. Really. It's true." New York Times. May 2, 1999. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CEED81E3DF931A35756C0A96F958260
  • O'Brien, Michael. "John F. Kennedy." Macmillan. 2005. http://books.google.com/books?id=TgSz9snm7HcC&pg=PA836&lpg=PA836&dq=integration+university+of+alabama&source=web&ots=QUOjPX6rk6&sig=xaX1A4A0coLBfG5IOvTsf7W6L-4#PPA836,M1
  • Reicher, Maggie. "Eleanor Roosevelt, no ordinary woman." Humanities. January/February 2000. http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2000-01/eleanor.html
  • Roiphe, Katie. "Bushwacked." The Guardian. June 1, 2001. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jun/01/usa.features11
  • Rothman, Lily. "The White House Tour Seen in Jackie, as Described in 1962." Time. Dec. 2, 2016. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://time.com/4586913/white-house-tour-jackie/
  • Walsh, Kenneth. "A History of Presidential Pardons." U.S. News & World Report. June 8, 2018. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-06-08/the-most-prominent-presidential-pardons-in-history
  • Wead, Doug. "A list of presidents' children married while their father was in office." Dough Wead The Blog. April 19, 2008. http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/a-list-of-presidents-children-married-while-their-father-was-in-office/
  • Wolf, Julie. "The Iran-Contra Affair." PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html
  • "Air Force One." White House Military Office. http://www.whitehouse.gov/whmo/af1.html
  • "Air Force One: 'The flying White House.'" CNN. February 15, 2002. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/02/15/airforce.one/
  • "Andrew Jackson holds 'open house' at the White House." History. March 3, 2020. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house
  • "Andrew Johnson." United States Senate. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_22_00016.htm
  • "Assassinations and attempts." Grand Valley State University. http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/index.cfm?id=5FDDBC1E-02AB-77A1-60768525C937A686
  • "Bush orders $200M in emergency food aid." CBS/Associated Press. April 14, 2008. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/14/world/main4014224.shtml?source=mostpop_story
  • "Civil rights context in the early 1960s." PBS. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Civil+Rights+Context+in+the+Early+1960s+Page+4.htm
  • "DEA historybook; 1980 - 1985." U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/history/1980-1985.html
  • "Everything You Need to Know About Barron Trump." Town & Country. Aug. 7, 2020. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a9595701/barron-trump-facts/
  • "Executive orders; J.Q. Adams - G.W. Bush." The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/executive_orders.php
  • "From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 26 October 1788." National Archives. (Sept. 8, 2020) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0054
  • "International agreements without Senate approval." FindLaw. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article02/12.html
  • "It's good to be president." Beyond Books. 2000. http://www.beyondbooks.com/gop00/3c.asp
  • "It's good to be president, for perks alone." Associated Press. October 25, 2004. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6329335/
  • "John Tyler." White House. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-tyler/
  • "Medicaid Facts and Figures." Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Jan. 30, 2020. (Sept. 8, 2020) https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicaid-facts-and-figures
  • "Medicare." National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare. August 2020. (Sept. 8, 2020) https://www.ncpssm.org/our-issues/medicare/medicare-fast-facts/
  • "Monroe Doctrine, 1823." U.S. State Department. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/jd/16321.htm
  • "Power to Declare War." United States House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives." (Sept. 9, 2020) https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/War-Powers/
  • "President of the United States." Encarta. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571294/President_of_the_United_States.html#701509384
  • "President of the United States." Encyclopedia Americana. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0321140-00&templatename=/article/article.html
  • "President's authority to remove the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission: memorandum opinion for the Counsel to the President." U.S. Department of Justice. July 31, 2001. http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/cpscchairmanremoval.htm
  • "Secret Service history." U.S. Treasury Department. http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml
  • "The executive branch: powers of the presidency." U.S. State Department. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/outusgov/ch3.htm
  • "Thirty years of America's drug war: a chronology." PBS> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/
  • "U.S. Constitution: Article I." Cornell University Law School. http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html
  • "Veto." Encyclopedia Americana. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0403040-00&templatename=/article/article.html
  • "Vetoes, 1789 to Present." United States Senate. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/vetoCounts.htm
  • "White House releases 200 million in food crisis aid." AFP. April 15, 2008. http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=1,1,22&type=top&File=080415010644.ztup3a53.xml
  • "William Howard Taft." White House. (Sept. 9, 2020) https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-howard-taft/
  • "Woodrow Wilson." White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ww28.html
Citation