Every Four Years

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George Wasbop^^llpKintempo-raries were^UEjjjlE^^ as to bow to adJ^HpRi^on's first electa^ ctópirSate. The Senate dd^d the merits of "His Elective Makg|j|caHis Mightiness." But f^ipimiericans settled for the llR^'s plain form pf address: "Mr. President." '
Yet many other questions about the office have remained open. How assertive should the President be with regard to the other branches of the federal government? Is the uneven performance of the Presidents the result of flaws in the system or of the changing American charac^r?
, Even the Presidents themselves 'iiave been imcertain as to thefa^ re^P^^biMties. Whereas HanflTra-man proclaimed» "I prefer to Super-
Government myself," Williarn tlow-ard Taft admitted, "I have coi^e to the conclusion that the major^jpart of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists into the town."
Recognizing that scholarly attention to this central question of the role of the Chief... Tovább

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George Wasbop^^llpKintempo-raries were^UEjjjlE^^ as to bow to adJ^HpRi^on's first electa^ ctópirSate. The Senate dd^d the merits of "His Elective Makg|j|caHis Mightiness." But f^ipimiericans settled for the llR^'s plain form pf address: "Mr. President." '
Yet many other questions about the office have remained open. How assertive should the President be with regard to the other branches of the federal government? Is the uneven performance of the Presidents the result of flaws in the system or of the changing American charac^r?
, Even the Presidents themselves 'iiave been imcertain as to thefa^ re^P^^biMties. Whereas HanflTra-man proclaimed» "I prefer to Super-
Government myself," Williarn tlow-ard Taft admitted, "I have coi^e to the conclusion that the major^jpart of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists into the town."
Recognizing that scholarly attention to this central question of the role of the Chief Executive would be particularly desirable during a Presidential election year, the Smithsonian Institution—keeper of myriad documents, portraits, and personal belongings of the Presidents and their families—commissioned the editors of Exposition Books to convoke a kind of literary symposium on the Presidency.
This book, entitled Every^Four Years in observance of the coi^stitu-tional obligation to elect a President on a trac^^Üie
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