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The Most Powerful Man in the World?
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The Most Powerful Man in the World? The President of the United States is universally regarded as the world's most influential individual. As the leader of the world's mightiest nation, the current President of the United States, George W. Bush has the most prestigious job on the planet. That being said, we would believe that the President governs his country by command and that his every order is followed. The writer Richard Neustadt would disagree, he expresses in his book Presidential Power that overall Presidents cannot govern by command. Neustadt feels that the Presidents seat is weak and the "powers" of the President granted in the Constitution are greatly limited. "In the words of a President, spoken on the job, one finds the essence of the problem now before us: 'powers" are no guarantee of power; clerkship is no guarantee of leadership."(Neustadt) President Harry Truman felt the...
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