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What Makes an Effective President

in power.Andrew Jackson to me was the best Party Leader as president in America political life. He successfully pushed for a more democratic political process, and he asserted the supremacy of the federal government over the states. With Jackson's administration, national political parties took control of the selection of presidential candidates, marking the end of congressional control of the process. Jackson stood at the head of the new Democratic Party, and his election ushered in the era of modern political parties. Jackson also asserted the authority of the federal government and the president over the states.Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the best in Economic, Foreign, and Domestic Affairs. He steered the nation out of the Great Depression and through World War II, and he held the presidency longer than anyone did in history. Roosevelt came to office in 1933, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country's history. As part of the New Deal, Roosevelt pushed legislation to create scores of new agencies to confront the economic crisis: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Rural Electrification Administration, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Labor Relations Board. Roosevelt also prodded Congress to create the Social Security Administration to provide old-age pensions, and he pushed an unemployment insurance system to support the millions of people without jobs. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the government built a network of agencies and programs to ensure that the poor, unemployed, and aged could live with dignity and self-respect. Roosevelt's leadership in foreign affairs was just as important to the nation. His attention to the worries and fears of Americans also helped him maintain support for his military strategy during the war, and then for abandoning American isolationism in favor of involvement in the United Nations and a larger role in global affairs. I believe t...

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