What Does the President DO?

Civics 101

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Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Why focus on George Washington? Because the candidate was picked before they wrote the job description.

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0:00.0	The new president's duties outlined by the founding fathers how to be translated into everyday detail
0:06.0	could Washington make the Constitution work history waited on this one man
0:12.4	Frankson Delano Roosevelt.
0:14.0	I have two eyes.
0:16.0	Gerald Kennedy.
0:18.0	James Johnson, Richard Nixon.
0:20.0	Gerald R.
0:21.0	I'm George Reagan.
0:22.0	George. I'm George Robert Walker Bush
0:23.0	William Jefferson Clinton George Walker Bush
0:26.0	Barack Hussein Obama
0:27.0	Donald John Trump
0:28.0	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
0:29.0	You're listening to Civics 101. I'm to Capideche. I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:36.6	And today we are going to actually answer a question we've come at from different angles over the years but never truly head on. What does the
0:45.3	president of the United States do?
0:50.3	It's funny I mean we kind of have danced around it, haven't we?
0:54.6	We have a veritable jitterbug.
0:57.0	And I know we're going to put links in the show notes for anyone who wants a primer on things
1:00.9	like the executive branch or presidential vetoes or the
1:04.7	president and the price of gas and so I'm excited to talk about what the president
1:09.1	does but honestly I'm a little trepidacious why are you trepidation I mean I little trepidacious.
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