Factors that are considered when we look at president ial effectiveness. The second part id like to look at a few of the more recent president ial elections. We are going to start with this and i am calling on the work of professor robert. A wellknown president ial historian. He writes, the 20th century sought an unprecedented expansion of president ial powers. Primarily due to the division and leadership skills. Nine men who served in the office. Theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, Franklin Delano roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john f. Kennedy, lyndon bains johnson, Richard Nixon and ronald reagan. Now professor deluxe analysis only looks at the 20th century. Im going to throw in some of the president s from the 21st century as we go along. If we can go to the first slide. Professor dally talks about the six points. The first one he says is his vision. Then the second second is charisma third is pragmatism. The fourth is consensus building followed by trust their credibil
Before we leave you this morning by 10 00am pockets maybe remaining along the coast to later this morning or even in the early afternoon. Temperatures thus far were in the mixture between 50s and 60s a lower 61, the east bay shoreline already antioch at 62 and for comparison sake most of the real estate is actually ahead of where it was this time from yesterday. The breakdown for you we cant take care of this morning, fog clouds by 11 00am were mostly sunny at 70 79 by mid afternoon, the temperatures are going to revisit the 80s in those inland valleys of looks like for today, but the real earnest warmup doesnt get here until the middle of the week well be talking all about that coming up in just a bit back to you. All right sounds good. Thank you dave a developing story that were following from overnight. Take a look at this video another fatal officer involved shooting leads to a fiery protests this time in atlanta. Youre taking a look at the that was burned down saturday where shark
The lost history of president s black family, you can purchase it directly in the link in the chat box to the right of your screen and the link provided on the Atlanta History Center website. As betty and i are talking, we invite you to commit your question to the q a portion of your screen and ill try to get to them as time allows. Doctor Betty Kirsten is a retired physician and denominated us yet, the other madison is her first book and it follows a nearly 30 year quest to confirm her lineage, the reviews call it group for new generation, thank you so much for being with us. Im very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of james mattis as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights, what did you think or what were you told about him going out . I was told what everybody else was. He was an important figure in American History but i was also told that he was my great, great great
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And central powers, helping both sides continue the fight. She sought to police and ethnic groups and yet faced criticism about how treated its own minorities. Good morning everyone. We will begin our conversation about neutrality. That will last over several lectures. This morning, we are going to really focus on what neutrality looks like and meant for the americans. Especially in the first half of the war. The thing that i want you to understand the most, this is very vital. It is a very different understanding of neutrality than we have today. Neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean inactivity. It did not mean passivity. It most certainly it did not mean impartiality. If it does not mean those things, what on earth does neutrality mean . The definition of neutrality differs with each country. Some, like belgium will say that they never gave up their neutrality. They were invaded. But they always remained officially neutral. They were agreed as a neutral country. Others