Presidential Leadership and Party Responsibility

N spite of vast powers, the office of the Presidency can become a mere masquerade of power if Congress chooses to make it so. It is not only that many of the powers of the President are derived from acts of Congress, and what Congress gives it may also take away. Even those Presidential powers derived directly from the Constitution depend in large measure for their effectiveness upon congressional co-operation. Without congressional approval of men and money, the President may be Commander in Chief, but of a phantom force. Even the President's foreign policy requires congressional support if it is to succeed, particularly in the period since World War II when economic

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