POLI 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Implied Powers, Enumerated Powers, Federal Bank
11 Dec 2018
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Pre-1939 - small, informal, little or no budget, few demands. Congress initially does not provide the president any public funds to staff the presidency. Once they move into the white house, congress provides funds to maintain the. Presidents got by as best as they could. Did not have to pay them as much. They didn"t do enough to have staff anyway. 1939 - executive office of the president (e. o. p. ) Once fdr got into office, he started to plot ways to help the u. s. get out of the. Great depression (this all starts in 1937, start of his second term in office) He had nobody on his staff to help him do the job. Creates the brain trust - volunteers who helped. Detailees - somebody who is assigned one position and detailed to a different job, you show up for your job but then assigned to work somewhere else. Brownlow commission report (1937) - the president needs help .
