presidency
Top executive office
The presidency is the office or position of president, or the period during which someone holds that office: during the Obama presidency, She announced her candidacy for the presidency.
The term applies to nations, organizations, and institutions alike.
A presidency may also refer to the administration or executive branch under a particular president.
Official refusal to approve
- commander-in-chiefHighest military authority holder
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- executive ordersPresidential directives with legal force
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
authority · prerogative · clemency · decree · enforcement · sanction · ratification · commutation
President's formal workspace
- White HouseOfficial presidential residence
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- chief of staffHighest-ranking administrative assistant
- executive ordersPresidential directives with legal force
Air Force One · Camp David · West Wing · Rose Garden · briefing room · situation room · press secretary · national security council
Skillful government leadership
- visionAbility to see
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- charismaMagnetic personal appeal
- bully pulpitProminent position for advocacy
fireside chat · address · rhetoric · persuasion · gravitas · decisiveness · legacy · approval rating
Formal beginning ceremony
- swearing-inOfficial oath-taking ceremony
- oathFormal binding promise
- tenureProtected employment status
- incumbencyHolding an official position
reelection · succession · impeachment · lame-duck · midterm · transition · first hundred days · second term
Organized effort toward goal
- primaryChief in importance
- caucusParty selection meeting
- electoral collegeIntermediary voting delegation system
- nominationFormal candidate selection
convention · running mate · swing state · battleground · debate · ticket · landslide · incumbent
Revolutionary-era American statesmen
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- WashingtonU.S. seat of government
- JeffersonThird American president
Kennedy · Nixon · Watergate · New Deal · assassination · Mount Rushmore · archives · memoirs
veto
Official refusal to approve
- commander-in-chiefHighest military authority holder
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- executive ordersPresidential directives with legal force
mandate · authority · prerogative · clemency · decree · enforcement · sanction · ratification · commutation · pocket veto
Oval Office
President's formal workspace
- White HouseOfficial presidential residence
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- chief of staffHighest-ranking administrative assistant
executive orders · Air Force One · Camp David · West Wing · Rose Garden · briefing room · situation room · press secretary · national security council · domestic policy
statesmanship
Skillful government leadership
bully pulpit · fireside chat · address · rhetoric · persuasion · gravitas · decisiveness · legacy · approval rating · mandate
inauguration
Formal beginning ceremony
- swearing-inOfficial oath-taking ceremony
- oathFormal binding promise
- tenureProtected employment status
incumbency · reelection · succession · impeachment · lame-duck · midterm · transition · first hundred days · second term · consecutive
campaign
Organized effort toward goal
- primaryChief in importance
- caucusParty selection meeting
- electoral collegeIntermediary voting delegation system
nomination · convention · running mate · swing state · battleground · debate · ticket · landslide · incumbent · challenger
Founding Fathers
Revolutionary-era American statesmen
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- WashingtonU.S. seat of government
Jefferson · Kennedy · Nixon · Watergate · New Deal · assassination · Mount Rushmore · archives · memoirs · precedent
- civicsballot, election, ballots, Bill of Rights, branches of government
- George WashingtonMount Vernon, founding father, Continental Army, crossing the Delaware, Valley Forge
- Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter, peanut farmer, Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis, Rosalynn Carter
- LBJ EraLBJ, Great Society, Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act
- Ulysses Grantmilitary career, general, Grant's Tomb, Union Army, Appomattox
- African Governmentparliament, legislature, judiciary, executive, ministers
presidencymonarchy
Rule by crowned sovereign
kingship · dictatorship · autocracy · hereditary rule · absolute monarchy
presidencyjunta
Post-coup ruling clique
triumvirate · parliament · anarchy · direct democracy · leaderlessness
presidencysubordination
Lower position in hierarchy
citizenry · subjects · rank and file · powerlessness · subjection
- vice presidentSecond-ranking executive officer
- dead presidentSlang for paper money
- presidential electionVote for head of state
- presidential decreeHead of state's directive
- Mr. PresidentNational leader's formal address
- class presidentElected pupil representative
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