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: And always good to be with you, Neal. CONAN: And we hear from time to time that the big issue in this campaign is jobs, jobs, jobs. Can the president create jobs? KOPPEL: 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: