The President, Vice President, and Cabinet: A Look at the Executive Branch
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
THESE CITIzENS ARE VOTING FOR PRESIDENT Presidents are elected This means citizens choose them by voting Presidents are elected for four-year terms A president can serve up to two terms 6
The Oath Presidents must promise to take their duties seriously This promise is called the oath of office Serving the country is an honor But being president is also a job The president gets paid for his or her work Ronald Reagan LEFt takes the oath of office in 1981 as his wife Nancy looks on 7
