The United States As The President Of The Twenty-First Century

1. The twenty-first century is based on a presidency opposite from the one we have read about in end of the 1700s. The Constitution gave the President such limited power that it controlled the early presidency. At that time, Congress was in vast control over the executive branch. Which resulted in the President only having a small number of exceptions. The Presidents at the time was just a tool for the Congress throughout the years. Until the balance of power shifted astonishing, so that the executive branch obtained equal power to the legislative branch. For some, this change is credited to Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.- who we believe to have molded the presidency it into a more significant position
The most brilliant proposal of Roosevelt's foreign policy was the founding of the Panama Canal. Being the President of United States, Theodore Roosevelt dreamt to enlarge the power and reputation of the U.S. on a international scale. An example of this was seen in 1901, when the United States debated with Britain for their help in a American canal, which would be constructed through Panama. This piece of territory was controlled by Colombia. Senate agreed on a path through Panama, dependent upon Colombian approval. When Colombia drew back of the contract, the United States provided them with money and a naval blockade for the Panamanian revolution. As a result, in 1903, the Varilla Treaty with Panama gave the United States direct power of the canal for a price of $10 million. In addition, Theodore Roosevelt also believed that a huge and dominant Navy was a vital factor of national defense. Therefore, Roosevelt increased the size of the Navy being one of the biggest on the globe . In December of 1907, Roosevelt sent the “Great White Fleet” on a global tour to impress and display America's growing power and supremacy. Lastly, he was also given the title as a peacemaker . In Portsmouth of 1905 , the President was able to get Russia and Japan to negotiate a peace settlement by offering his services to end the dispute . His approached to both nations was proven to be
The National Security is a concept that a government should defend, guard, protect, and look after its citizens against all national crises. This is done through economic power, military power, and etc. The National Security was made during President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who advertised it very much and ended up making the Operations Coordinating Board to keep track of every NSC results. However, Truman was not fond of the idea of National Security Council and only during the Korean War considered it to be useful. Although, they both did agreed they did not believe in providing the National Security Council with a policymaking body at the White House.
The National Security team was actually succeed to Truman from Roosevelt's presidency. That is where is alter the team inside and out during his time in office. After Eisenhower election, he divided the NSC method into 3 parts in order to rebuilt and strengthened the NSC system, and everything related NSC had to be top secret. In addition, Eisenhower's attempts to endorse his NSC system was unsuccessful. None of the American presidents ever had a say in the policies within the NSC structure, this included Eisenhower . This was a disappointed for him because he was determined to make the Department of State a element of the National Security Council’s organized method, where it would include integrated policy review. His ambition for the NSC changed was highly noticeable through his actions. Eisenhower present each time