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The President,
Vice President,
and Cabinet

A Look at the Executive Branch

Elaine Landau

Copyright 2012 by Elaine Landau
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written
permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in
an acknowledged review.
Lerner Publications Company
A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
241 First Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A.
Website address: www.lernerbooks.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Landau, Elaine.
The President, Vice President, and Cabinet : A look at the executive branch / by
Elaine Landau.
p. cm. (Searchlight booksHow does government work?)
Includes index.
ISBN 9780761365174 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. PresidentsUnited StatesJuvenile literature. 2. Executive departments
United StatesJuvenile literature. I. Title.
JK517.L36 2012
352.230973dc22 2010041799
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 DP 12/31/11

Contents

BECOMING
PRESIDENT

GOVERNMENT
BRANCHES

Chapter

BECOMING
PRESIDENT

The president does important
work. He or she helps make the
countrys laws. The president also
directs foreign policy. This means he
or she decides how the country will relate
to other nations. Leading the military is part
of the presidents job too.

A family listens to
President John F.
Kennedy speak on
television in the 1960s.
What are some of the
presidents jobs?

Who Can Be President?

To be president, you must be a U.S. citizen. You must have
been born in the United States. You must have lived in the
United States for at least
fourteen years. And you
must be at least thirty-five
years old.

Barack Obama became
president when he was
forty-seven years old.

Presidents are elected. This means citizens choose
them by voting. Presidents are elected for four- year
terms. A president can serve up to two terms.

THESE CITIZENS ARE VOTING
FOR PRESIDENT.

The Oath

Presidents must promise to take their duties seriously.
This promise is called the oath of office. Serving the
country is an honor. But being president is also a job.
The president gets paid for his or her work.

Ronald Reagan (LEFT)
takes the oath of
office in 1981 as his
wife, Nancy, looks on.

Congress
decides how
much the
president gets
paid. Congress
is made up of
the Senate and
the House of
Representatives.
In 2001,
Congress decided
the president
should make
$400,000 a year.

Congress can invite the president
to speak to them. The president
commonly speaks to Congress
when he or she is invited.

Tough Job

Presidents can be asked to make decisions day or
night. They often work seven days a week. Their job
has no limits.

President Gerald R.
Ford works at his
desk in the White
House in 1975.

People cant fire the president if they dont think he
or she is doing a good job. But Congress can remove a
president from office if Congress thinks he or she has
done something very wrong.

President Richard Nixon was almost removed
from office in 1974. He was caught covering up
for his employees, who stole information to help
him get reelected. Nixon left the presidency
before Congress could remove him from office.

To remove a president from office, the House of
Representatives must impeach the president. This
means they have to accuse him or her of wrongdoing.
Then the Senate must decide if he or she is guilty. To
remove a president from office, two-thirds of the Senate
must say the president is guilty.

This cartoon
shows Nixon in a
spiderweb. The
web is a symbol for
Nixons cover-up.

Chapter

GOVERNMENT
BRANCHES

The president is one of the
worlds most powerful people.
Leading the United States is a big job.

The president has a lot of
power. But our nations
founders didnt give the
president total power.
Do you know why?

Our nations founders wanted a strong president. But
they didnt want the president to be all- powerful. They
wanted a leader who would help all Americans reach
their goals.

President George Washington
(RIGHT) talks to Alexander Hamilton
(CENTER) and thomas Jefferson
(LEFT) in 1795. These men are
some of our nations founders.

Three Parts

Our founders designed the government to have three parts.
The parts are called branches. They are the executive
branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.

The U.S. Constitution
defines the roles
of each branch of
government.

The president leads the executive branch. Congress
makes up the legislative branch. The Supreme Court (the
nations highest court) and other federal courts make up
the judicial branch.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS APPLAUD PRESIDENT
OBAMA AS HE MAKES A SPEECH IN 2011.

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