Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.
Frames 221 to 223: The motorcade is now in front of the camera lens, moving ever so slowly. The President and First Lady are waving to the crowd. The President almost stands up to send kisses to a few ladies in the front rows, but the First Lady hold...
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public re...
Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.
My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign.
The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.