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The West Wing's On The Day Before

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On the episode of The West Wing, “On the Day Before”, it clearly notifies of how the president has many hats, therefore the president observes many hats and many roles during his time. His presidency wears many hats, which clearly has many responsibilities for a person to perform. But the Constitution assigns two leadership roles to the President: chief executive and commander in chief. But the president has also played the part as chief in many other different ways: chief executive, chief of state, chief of a political party, chief legislator and chief diplomat. The West Wing gives a very diplomatic explanation of how the system works for the president’s roles. The episode starts with the White House hosting a dinner for Nobel laureates but the staff kept getting interrupted by many international crises, the president was getting ready for the dinner. While he was getting all set, at the exact same moment the president vetoes a bill to repeal the estate tax. But perhaps the Democratic Party appears to have the two- thirds majority to override the veto. At that time he was chief legislator, which manages the agencies and departments of executive branch. It also, appoints high- level officials and reads department …show more content…

All of them head to the situation room, the president wears the chief of state hat, he demands for all of them to investigate what really happen and to take everything calm as possible. With all of the incidents that was causing for the president to overlook the veto, it has everyone going insane and thinking of what’s going to happen if congress overrides the veto. While the others have a brief talk about everything that has been happening, some of them mention of holding Israel, and some of them have mention about the Israel reaction, which can be lead to a harsh

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