The President, Vice President, and Cabinet: A Look at the Executive Branch
How Does Government Work The President Vice President and Cabinet A Look at the Executive Branch Elaine Landau a Lerner Publications Company Minneapolis
Chapter 1 BECOMING PRESIDENT The president does important work He or she helps make the country’s laws The president also directs foreign policy This means he or she decides how the country will relate to other nations Leading the military is part of the president’s job too A family listens to President John F Kennedy speak on television in the 1960s What are some of the president’s jobs 4
Who Can Be President To be president you must be a U S citizen You must have been born in the United States You must have lived in the United States for at least fourteen years And you must be at least thirty-five years old Barack Obama became president when he was forty-seven years old 5
