While having voted for a period, it took a certain understanding of my learned behavior and involvement within the political scope of life; which for me construes politics is as usual. However, when evaluating an effective president after his first 100, I would choose Donald Trump. In contrast to Trump, I would have to say an ineffective president was Lyndon B. Johnson.
For me, I believe Present Trump is effective mainly due to his leadership style. Donald Trump is no different than any other effective leader. Just as principals have the power to change the climate, Trump has changed society. Leithwood, Seashore, Anderson, & Wahlstrom (2004) wrote, “So “effective” or “successful” leadership is critical to school reform” (p.6). While I do not buy into politics nor vote, Trump’s effective qualities stem from his business background, confidence, decision maker, and goal
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With riots, Trump also signed legislation that makes it easier for states to refuse Planned Parenthood funding and scraps an attempt by Obama to help cities and counties create retirement savings programs for private-sector workers, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as education secretary and Trump signed the travel ban. While not all his decisions agree with everyone, he is effective by his ability to arouse, retain, and direct the public. Therefore, I believe his leadership style is distinctively magnetic and non- deliberative. About Lyndon B. Johnson, he could have been more effective in dealing with the diplomatic attacks that exposed the United States for being stubborn and deceitful; especially being tumultuous, but pivotably time in history with African Americans. As a president who wanted to be known as an “education president,” his advice was coming from a different perception of thinking. “When we think of leaders in formal administrative roles, the greater the challenge the greater the impact of their actions on learning” (Leithwood, Seashore, Anderson, & Wahlstrom,
Lyndon B. Johnson was an intimidating man, and was used to making things go according to his plan. He generally would do anything possible to make what he wanted happen, and would sometimes use immoral tactics to do so. The “Johnson Treatment” as it was named, was Johnson’s most popular tactic of intimidation. He would tower over whomever he was speaking, using intimidating words and well as physical contact to get what he wanted from them. His time in the House, Senate, and White House were all filled with this type of behavior to make things get done his way. Although his time spent in political office was marked with scandal, and sometimes immoral tactics, overall Lyndon B. Johnson did many great things for the American people and this country. His influence as president from 1963-1969 can still be felt to this day, and Robert Dallek does an excellent job of detailing these successes in Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and his Times.
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Lyndon B Johnson became president in 1963 after the assassination of President John F Kennedy on November 22nd 1963. He formulated many policies including ‘The Great Society’. This was introduced in an aim to end poverty, improve education and rejuvenate cities for all Americans. Johnson also introduced Civil Rights. This act refers to the personal rights a citizen holds which are protected by the US government and prohibits; the discrimination of race, religion, age or gender. This was introduced to create equal opportunities for all. This essay will outline the key factors regarding whether or not Lyndon B Johnson
Upon Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson took over the white house and was faced with many problems and conflicts throughout his presidency. While the citizens of the United States tried to recover from the loss of Kennedy, Johnson found it advantageous, experiencing varying levels of success and efficacy with his responses between the 1960s and 70s. Johnson influenced America by reporting that Kennedy would have wanted the Great Society, in order to persuade people towards supporting his project. This led them to believe him and therefore support the developing movement. The Great Society was Johnson’s primary method of fixing problems in the United States, including the political, emotional as well as the social problems. Johnson unfortunately entered his presidency facing difficulties such as the Vietnam War, which would later damage his reputation.
remember all of fame or infamy by either their brightest accomplishments or their most glaring failures and such is the case with the 36th President of the United States. This short biography will briefly examine Lyndon B.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer explains a variety of topics about the reformation of the church in his book on Life Together. Something that was very powerful for me while reading this great work is the power of silence for Bonhoeffer. He explains the importance of listening. The ability to be silent while a brother or sister of Christ is speaking is very powerful. Listening to God through people is something that I have been battling in church recently. Based on Bonhoeffer, Life Together, I have learned how important to listen to my brothers and sisters in Christ because it would be the same to listen to God.
When looked at purely superficially, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson each assumed the role of President of the United States under very different circumstances. Put simply, Kennedy was elected and Johnson assumed the position in a time of tragedy in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination. However, when each assumed office, there was one common theme present: the tremendous hope of African Americans and others around the nation for new civil rights legislation. After President Kennedy called for the bill in a speech in 1963, the House proposed a bill that meant to address these civil rights concerns. While they each supported the bill, Kennedy and Johnson each had their own way of attempting to shepherd the bill through Congress
Unlike Kennedy, Johnson was very in your face and it was either his way of the highway. Johnson was more concerned on America’s poverty situation, than Kennedy was. Also he was the first president that showed he was down for equal rights for African Americans. Johnson’s policy to fight poverty was call the Great Society. His Great Society created national programs that created more education and government subsidies. He is most known for as the president that passed the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act. Johnson’s work for equal rights was a pivotal part of the early 1960’s America. The mistake Johnson made during his presidency was the Vietnam
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was built on leadership skills, and Rome flourished when under strong leadership of its great emperors. The American presidency is no different. Leading the executive branch of the United States government requires a finesse that not everyone possesses. There are several types of leadership, and a mix of them is needed to create the best functioning and smoothly running executive branch. As such, the way we evaluate presidents must also be done through different approaches. The way we judge presidents changes over time as, sometimes looking back subtleties that were missed are uncovered but generally, the overall opinion of a president does not shift greatly, even over time.
The political journeys of the 36th president of United States, Lyndon B. Johnson and that of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was different but to some extent similar. While the two had different ideologies, they were focused towards making America a better place for the local population. However, their differences were very vivid even in public sphere. They differed on the best strategies and ideologies to implement in order to spearhead the growth and development of the American economy. Johnson was born in United States and attended Texas States University. He started teaching but his interests towards politics made him to quit and later became a legislative secretary. His political ambitions faced several hurdles especially due to
Presidential greatness has many aspects, but it primarily means demonstrating effective, inspiring, visionary, and transformational leadership in times of great challenge and crisis. There have been many effective presidents, but there have only been a few great presidents because simply being effective and successful does not make one a great president. The distinction between presidential effectiveness and presidential greatness is that presidential greatness can only be attained when the exceptional leadership, visionary, and transformational accomplishments of a president have a long-term positive impact and change the course of American history.
Even though the approval rates from Kennedy to Johnson dropped nearly ten percent, both of the two contributed greatly to the nation (Smith). During Kennedy’s presidency he created a passage for the twenty-fourth amendment, contributed towards the housing act of 1961, and led as a stewardship through the cold war (Stern). However, Johnson succeeded in accomplishing much more ‘effective’ acts. This included the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (Smith). To reiterate, both Presidents bestowed the United States with some of the biggest improvements, and got us through some of the worst hardships. Nonetheless, President Kennedy did not contribute to one of America’s biggest changes- the Civil Rights Movement. I feel that if Kennedy were to have done something, he would be deemed ‘better’ than Johnson. Yet, it was ultimately Johnson who shaped the nation. It was Johnson that acted on every reform he promised to make. Therefore, it was ultimately President Johnson that better sculpted
In conclusion I think that Donald Trump has had a very positive effect on the presidential campaign he speaks the truth and is not just doing it for the money. He has said everything he wants to do to make America great again and I believe the that is what he will do if he becomes the president of the United
eventually led to conflicts between the US and the Native American’s, with the conflict it made
Effectiveness of leadership rest solely on the style of leadership that the leader embraces. Many times it is also contingent upon the framework of leadership. This simply suggests that dissimilar leadership styles are applicable in different situations. In order to be effective, one must possess an array of skills, influence, traits, behaviors, values, motivation and relationships with followers. Effectiveness of leadership is also the result of the mind, body, soul and spirit coming together to be a visionary, passionate, flexible, inspiring, innovative, courageous, experimental, and initiates change. Effective leadership means are centered on creating an invigorating environment that is safe, fair, and consistent for all. The aforementioned statements