George Washington's Presidency During The Modern Era

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The expanding presidency created an increase in the president’s expectations and

responsibilities. At the time the constitution was ratified, the founding fathers’ conception of the

president was more limited than in modern presidency. In one funny example discussed in class,

during Washington’s presidency, he paid his own salary with Jefferson. Since our nation’s

beginnings, the American presidency grown, occurred in the president’s responsibilities,

burdens, and powers (Greenberg, p. 384).

One of the early important presidents was George Washington. He solidified the values

of his presidency at the time the first president’s executive duties were mistrusted (Greenberg, p.

386). He affirmed a structure that created what were
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386). Lincoln’s

presidential power was one of the most powerful in US history because he created freedom for

all the citizens in the US, but yet many people had no right to vote on that time.

Since the 19th century, the US presidency duties had structural changes when America

became a world power with corporate dominated economy. For example, Theodore Roosevelt,

aggressively pushed and enhanced powers of the office since Lincoln’s death (Greenberg, p.

386). One of the major accomplishment during Teddy Roosevelt’s term was the creation of the

National Park system. Another major president in the modern era was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Despite Roosevelt’s executive order to place Japanese-Americans into isolated internment

camps, he had many major accomplishments, including ending the Great Depression in the US,

and modernizing the US military at the end of World War 2. Ultimately, the modern era of US

history had its many changes in the role of presidency when it comes to becoming chief of our

nation.

With these examples, how these changes were important for each individual president?

Basically, we are not sure how each president caused each major expansion in their terms,