The World Turned Upside Down
The Advent of the American Revolution
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Presidents
Presidents takes on characteristics that are strange. A man with all that presidential power hesitates to fire anyone and presidents involve all kinds of links and motions on about how to get rid of employees that they no longer want in their administration. It is said that the President Roosevelt never fired anybody but that he would take the duties of that job and give it to some other employee and in that way would isolate the person he wanted to remove from power. Whether he left the employ of the government, he didn't care. He was superior. He was interested in what they did for his cause or if they supported his policies of the office. The President was a master of presidential politics.
You might think President Roosevelt was a human being. This statement limits his ability to listen and to work so much, that is as much as a human being can be When you look at the office of president today, there are some 600 people reporting to him, plus or minus. One wonders how he hears them. The answer is –he doesn't.
If you look at the early White House, we see that it was indeed a house painted white. The President lived there and he had his office there. It was a building provided for those purposes by the Congress. On up until the time of President Roosevelt, Franklin D. that is, the White House was a pretty country home, old Virginian style and much Virginian in its action. The President was a man of leisure who received guests in his house through their petitions and sometimes he did something for them and many times he didn't. Early in the game, we see one thing that was common to all presidents, they listened.
Up until the day, and including the day of Roosevelt, President Roosevelt, Franklin, again that is, that was the nature of the White House. It was a country farmhouse. It's a wonder they didn't drink water out of a dipper. However, rumors have it that they drank bourbon whiskey out of glasses.
At the beginning of World War II, one looks at a picture of President Roosevelt with his advisors around him, we see that it was a rather small picture and he had a small number of advisors. The direction of his advisors started with Harry Hopkins. Harry Hopkins was a slight man, a frail man who had a good mine for power. He was secretary to President Roosevelt and advised him on all matters of appointments and the working of his office.
Soon Harry must have worn out, because Harry soon began fading from presidential pictures. There was an admiral that showed up standing behind President Roosevelt at important conferences outlining how World War II was to end. That was Admiral William D. Leahy who as the war started to come to its end always stood behind President Roosevelt. Leahy was within whispering distance to the President. He was there not only as a Navy man, but he served as former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for complete political advice, international and home. The President had to look somewhere for advice. He had to look somewhere for a man he trusted who would extend his ability to listen.
Soon, Leahy disappeared from the picture and soon even Roosevelt disappeared from the picture, but the staff of the President has never disappeared form the picture. It has grown stronger and stronger each year. As the nation has become more complicated and bigger as the presidential power of appointment has become much more powerful, there must be some way to delegate the President's powers. The President does not want to delegate his presidential power. That is his currency with the nation, with the Congress and with those with power outside the government. The President wants to extend his listening time and make his decision time more equitable and more predictable and to make it more according to his solution. Presidential appointments are a big problem because presidential appointments involve appointments of great power to man and the nature of presidential appointments has changed in more than number. The President has real problems in the organization of his office, both by himself and by the parameters of the Constitution and of course by the Congress. All three of those are big paddles in a small pond for it has a real power to it, that pond does. The power pot would never be too big because the President sees it as the source of his ability to get things done, first in the executive office of the president and vice president. The vice president has no power until the president dies. He has power that is based on expectation of the life and death of the president.
The Presidency is a dangerous office. Speculation concerning the power is not just a laugh. Since the time of Abraham Lincoln, roughly one-half of presidents have been shot at and some have hit their mark. Therefore, the odds of getting through the presidency are pretty good. But to get through it without being shot at, or hit, or wounded are not so good. Yet, men stand up and want to be President of the United States. The longevity is much better for the appointed positions, however the longevity of the appointments otherwise, such as retaining your employment with the government, is rather short when working for the President. The first group of men who work for the President are the Cabinet. The heads of the presidential cabinet. The Congress accepts and/or rejects presidential appointments to the cabinet offices. The Constitution says that the Congress shall consent and advise and that's a pretty good equation for control. The President starts out with his main officers and he shares control of those officers with the Congress. Therefore, he has a hard time
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This book chronicles the development of the principles of revolution starting from the Declaration of Independence through today. The American Revolution has continued to be alive to the causes of freedom. Since its adoption the Constitution has never failed the cause of the human rights worldwide. This issue of human rights is alive and well. Today, the United States of America stands as a beacon throughout the world for freedom.
Therefore the subject of this book is Democracy in America and includes the process by which Americans have determined the direction of their nation since its beginning. This process continues to grow making America the most powerful nation in the world.
About the Author
Fred Meyer has participated in the ups and downs of the give and take of the work of political organizations and candidates. He began his work as a precinct worker, was elected to become a participant in his party’s state convention, and an elective office, that of City Council.
Finally at the state level he
participated in campaigns with the Governor.
He organized and was chairman of his company’s political action committee. Also he participated in get-out-to-vote campaigns in the grass roots campaigns which have become so critical in order to get out votes in today’s elections. He may have even stooped so low at times as to kiss a baby or two since he campaigned from door-to-door for various candidates.
Mr. Meyer’s experience in politics at the local level has been extensive and he senses that the role of the individual in local politics is giving way to the macro politics with large advertising budgets. He said, “we need larger industries in politics, not being an expensive organization.” In other words, politics is leaning to the same forces that has bugged industry today. The big guy seems to win and spending tremendous sums of money.
Mr .Meyer challenges the idea that bigger is always better and would remind politicians at all levels that one vote will win an election. He realizes this from his own experiences where he lost an election by six votes.
The ideals of the American Revolution based on human rights have continued to propel itself throughout government activity. All citizens must realize that the price of freedom is high. American men and women are always fighting somewhere in the world standing for human rights worldwide known to be the cornerstone of life in this nation.
Mr. Meyer does advocate the idea of teaching people more about our political system and how it works. Democracy demands participation because the currency of the democratic action is the vote. Every election leads to a public office holder.