Author Question: You want to convince the president to use the strategy of going public. Which statement could you ... (Read 55 times)

kshipps · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

You want to convince the president to use the strategy of going public. Which statement could you use as an example of this strategy used effectively?

a. Theodore Roosevelt used the bully pulpit to empower the Interstate Commerce
Commission to regulate shipping rates for railroads.
b. Franklin Roosevelt claimed a popular mandate to propose legislation that would have
increased the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
c. John F. Kennedy's rating surged thirteen points in 1962, when the U.S. set up a blockade around Cuba.
d. Barack Obama enjoyed an approval rating of 68 percent when he first took office in 2009.
e. Richard Nixon claimed executive privilege as his excuse during the Watergate scandal.

Question 2

Members of Congress receive expert advice on policy from what bureaucratic source?

a. the National Labor Relations Board
b. the Government Accountability Office
c. the Federal Register
d. the Federal Communications Commission
e. the Council of Economic Advisers