§ ≡ A section of Preserve, Protect, and Defend: Faithfully Executing the Office of the President
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The President of the United States (POTUS) is first and foremost our Nation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Commander-in-Chief (CINC) of its Armed Forces. The Executive Branch of the Federal Government and the Armed Forces of the United States, comprising the Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), Air Force, and Coast Guard, all together total around four million people at the present time. The POTUS presides over this massive hierarchical organization as its Chief. Little wonder he is commonly acknowledged to be the most powerful person in the world.
Clearly, the POTUS must have exceptional leadership qualities. That premise is a virtual given considering the President's Constitutionally designated Chiefdoms within the Federal Government — the Executive Branch and the Armed Forces. Historically, every President has had prior experience as either Congressman, Senator, Cabinet Secretary, Governor, General in the U.S. Army, or as Vice President of the United States. A General is an obvious choice to fulfill the CINC prerogative, while all but the Legislative experience of Senator or Congressman are obvious qualifications for a CEO position, noting that the Vice President is the Presiding Officer of the Senate.
Our first President was, of course, the Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolutionary Forces during the War of Independence, and he presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution. His unique qualifications for the Presidency accorded him the only unanimous election in our Nation's history, and he proved to be one of the two greatest Presidents, according to many recurring polls of American historians.
And yet, a person's innate qualities can count for more than proven experience. Just as Washington was the "indispensable man" and, therefore, the obvious choice of his day, another man, of humble background, who was to become the consensus choice of historians as the greatest President in American history, had been merely a one-term Congressman from Illinois, who failed to be re-elected, prior to his election as the sixteenth President of the United States. Go figure.
{Section 1 « Section 2.1 » Section 2.2}
The President of the United States (POTUS) is first and foremost our Nation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Commander-in-Chief (CINC) of its Armed Forces. The Executive Branch of the Federal Government and the Armed Forces of the United States, comprising the Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), Air Force, and Coast Guard, all together total around four million people at the present time. The POTUS presides over this massive hierarchical organization as its Chief. Little wonder he is commonly acknowledged to be the most powerful person in the world.Clearly, the POTUS must have exceptional leadership qualities. That premise is a virtual given considering the President's Constitutionally designated Chiefdoms within the Federal Government — the Executive Branch and the Armed Forces. Historically, every President has had prior experience as either Congressman, Senator, Cabinet Secretary, Governor, General in the U.S. Army, or as Vice President of the United States. A General is an obvious choice to fulfill the CINC prerogative, while all but the Legislative experience of Senator or Congressman are obvious qualifications for a CEO position, noting that the Vice President is the Presiding Officer of the Senate.
Our first President was, of course, the Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolutionary Forces during the War of Independence, and he presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution. His unique qualifications for the Presidency accorded him the only unanimous election in our Nation's history, and he proved to be one of the two greatest Presidents, according to many recurring polls of American historians.
And yet, a person's innate qualities can count for more than proven experience. Just as Washington was the "indispensable man" and, therefore, the obvious choice of his day, another man, of humble background, who was to become the consensus choice of historians as the greatest President in American history, had been merely a one-term Congressman from Illinois, who failed to be re-elected, prior to his election as the sixteenth President of the United States. Go figure.
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