Title: How Much Power Does The President Really Have? : NPR
Headings: How Much Power Does The President Really Have?
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How Much Power Does The President Really Have?
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Content: I think in the final analysis, Neal, we have to concede that what we're talking about is power that can be but is not necessarily. In other words, obviously there have been enormously powerful and influential presidents over the years, you think about FDR, you think about Lyndon Johnson, but does a pres necessarily, is it necessarily going to make a huge difference as to which of these two men, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, is going to be elected, in terms of jobs I'm not at all sure it does. CONAN: Mitt Romney says he promises 12 million new jobs by the time he's finished his first term. KOPPEL: Yes, he does, and I've always thought: Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if we could have a truth-in-advertising law that would be passed in this country so that politicians who make reckless promises during a campaign can in some small fashion be held to it after the election? But we don't have such a law. CONAN: The economy in general is again another way of maybe saying the same thing, but the economy overall is another major issue, that and the deficit.