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| formal international agreements between sovereign states |
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| a gevernment-government agreement with essentially the same legal force as a treaty. However, it may be concluded entirely withou tsenate knowledge and/or approval. |
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| the pres's implied or inherent power to withhold info on the ground that to release such information would affect either national security or the pres's ability to discharge official duties |
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| an approach to presidential power articulated by Theodore Roosevelt and based on the presidencies of lincoln and jackson, who believed that the president had a moral duty to serve popular interests and did not need specific constitutional or legal uathorization to take action |
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| a view of presidential power espoused by william howard taft, who believed that the president could exercise no power unless it could be traced to or implied from an express grant in either the constitution or an act of congress |
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| a gray area of the constitution, whereby a president claims that as holder of a broadly defined executive prerogative, he or she may take whatever steps are necessary to preserve the country's security |
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| actions presidents take to promote themselves and their policies to the american people |
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| executive office of the president EOP |
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| this office contains all staff units that support the president in administrative duties |
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| grop of presidential advisers, including secretaries of the major bureaucracy departments and any other officials the president designates |
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| the second-highest elected official in the uUS |
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