The Leadership of Colin Powell If one was to define the word leadership, they must consider the many roles that leaders play and the qualities that make great leaders. Leadership positions can create power, wealth, and notoriety as well as evil and disgrace. Leaders are the heads of countries, ...

Introduction Every President handles issues in his own way. It is interesting to compare and contrast the presidential leadership of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson in the field of civil rights. An Issue of Civil Rights When President Eisenhower and President Johnson were...

Introduction Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) entered the White House in 1933 in the midst of the nation's largest economic depression. Approximately 25 percent of the work force was unemployed, industrial production was bleak, and the bank system was collapsing. Overseas, the economic situation ...

Lately, the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, has pursued policies that have been very unpopular not only with the general public but the electorate as well. Besides the whole Monica Lewinsky ordeal, Clinton feels that these unpopular policies will affect the next election results. Pr...

What are the qualities of presidential leadership? What makes a president a great leader? The presidents were great leaders because they knew how to guide and to inspire the American People. The great presidents had leadership qualities such as possessing persistence like Lincoln, having resilience ...

From 1781 to 1789, the Articles of Confederation have been known to provide the United States with an ineffective form of government. Soon after the Revolutionary War in America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, while a new government was being started. These Articl...

After Alexander\'s death, Lysimachus, one of Alexander\'s more powerful generals, took over part of the Macedonian Empire. The coin with the head of Alexander on the obverse was commissioned by Lysimachus Tetradrachm during his lifetime and thereafter. The obverse shows the head of Alexander depict...

Profile of Power:Why Did He Have It&How Did He Use ItJoe EberlyProf. FrazierHON 338 - Director's Symposium12/12/01There have been an ever-growing number of Presidents to call the White House their home and claim the highest leadership position in the free world. Each one has left his mark on histor...

Is Tony Blair more like a President than a Prime Minister In order to assess whether Tony Blair's leadership is more presidential than prime ministerial, one must first consider the significant differences between the presidential and Parliamentary regimes. The Presidential system of go...

What makes a good Leader? Brad Carlson March 25,2001 Brad Carlson POL Paper 1 Dr. Endeley What makes a leader? This question has been posed in many areas within our everyday lives. This question is asked in the business, religious, social, and most often in the political ...

The Acquittals Abuse of power has never been welcomed by society. Whether it is in the home, on the job, in our schools or in our government, society subjects these abuses of power to investigation and prosecution. The penalties can be a dismissal from their position, court marshal or imp...

Since the beginning of the glorious post-World War II days to the dawn of the revolutionary 1960's, the United States had been led by an uninspiring, "ordinary" farmer who had led the country into yet another war. Additionally, despite the continuing economic boom, the obsequious societal tension p...

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes (poet, playwright, author--1902-1967), Following Hughes' suggestion, I continue to hold fast to many dreams and keep them alive every day: They are striving to be the best Ch...

In the article "The Case For Bush" Charles Krauthammer gives his opinions as to why he thinks that President Bush shows the political courage needed in wartime and to as why he should be re-elected. With the ensuing election approaching Krauthammer states it's significance with a war...

Gerald R. Ford Evaluation of a President When researching my option on a president who I should evaluate, I decided to choose President Gerald R. Ford. Ford had served as president from 1974 to 1977, after the unprecedented resignation of Nixon on Aug. 9, 1974. President Ford was president w...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler were two of the most influential leaders in modern history. They had diametrically different views on leading their respective nations, as well as what purpose their leadership would serve. Their styles as leaders shaped their views and determined what actio...

Before the 1976 election, "Nixon's successors attempted to restore the nation's lost faith in government" (as cited in Britten, and Mathless, 1998, p.46). Ford's efforts to tame inflation without plunging the economy into recession failed. Society needed a noble, honest...

Richard E. Neustadt, the author of Presidential Power, addresses the politics of leadership and how the citizens of the United States rate the performance of the president's term. We measure his leadership by saying that he is either "weak or "strong" and Neustadt argues that we have the right to d...

Justin Cameron February 1st, 1999 Lack of trust is a reoccurring theme through out the three cases. One might ask, why you need trust in any civil society? Lack of trust in a civil society has the society with no real stability. Trust in authority is lacking in each case. The approval rat...

All countries and civilizations throughout history have been run with some form of government or leadership. Whether the governing body is ruled by a tyrant, monarchy, democracy, or even a tsar, the body has certain responsibilities and jobs. In any given country, the role of the government varies a...

American\'s first government, The Articles of Confederation, was completely ratified in 1781. Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government was extremely weak. There was no chief executive, no power to levy taxes, and the federal government could not settle foreign affairs along with d...

Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. He was clearly an important icon in the action of the United States entering World War I. He also played a major role in the US participating in more world affairs during his presidency. He came to be known as the "proph...

The Federalist Paper no.721.What argument does Hamilton give against limiting the number of times a person may be elected president?Hamilton argued that the longer a "chief magistrate" serves in office, the more stable the system of leadership becomes. For the duration of a president's administrati...

Many presidents have had an influential affect on America. In comparing Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Reagan it is important to first note their general public appeals and the need for their leadership at each specific time in history. Roosevelt came to be president during the depression years, and his p...

France, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, did not have a government anywhere near as complex as the current one in the United States. This allowed their leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, total control without fear of consequences for his actions. The United States of America is a demo...