Expanding Power
Description
How much power should the chief executive have? Though the powers of the presidency have expanded with the growth of the nation, the process has been anything but smooth. The prerogatives of the presidency are uncertain and their assertion is invariably contested. This program offers a close-up look at four presidencies that became the benchmarks in the development of executive power. It is a journey through the emergence in practice of our modern conception of the executive office, and the measure of the men who fought to sustain it. Profiled are Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon.
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60 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c2000
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