Party Leader & Chief of State:
  Roles of our President  

This page, made by four Broughton High School students, is intended to
explain two roles of our President, Party Leader and Chief of State.

Party Leader:

• When a political party's candidate is elected President he then becomes the leader of the party
• The President tries to help his party by:

                -appoints party members to government jobs tthrough
                 patronage
                -making speeches and personal appearances inn support of
                 party members who are running for election
 

Chief of State:

• The president is a better symbol for America than Congress because the president is an individual with familiar ways of speaking and acting.  Therefore, he/she represents all fifty states, unlike Congress.
• The president's role of Chief of State is mostly symbolic because he is a role model for the american nation, and he represents the United States in international affairs.
• The role of chief of state can be blurred with other roles by meeting with other leaders. He can be casual but when business comes up, he takes the role of the president again

 
President Bush (chief of state) is meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister

Links
Press conference with Putin
 Press conference with Poland
   Press conference with Sweden
 Bush using his powers as the Republican Party leader meeting with the caucus
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