1. (p. 409) Which federal agency was lax in requiring the proper safety procedures that could have prevented the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
A. Environmental Protection Agency
B. Department of Labor
C. Department of Transportation
D. Minerals Management Service
E. Executive Office of the President
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65. (p. 405) Which of the following describes what political scientist Hugh Heclo calls “the illusion of presidential government”?
A. the inability of the president to influence the legislative priorities of Congress, even though the party in power pays lip-service to the president’s agenda
B. the presidential image-building through public relations that contributes to the idea that the president is in charge of the national government
C. the belief by the public that Congress should follow the presidential agenda, regardless of whether or not the majority part is the same party of the president
D. the image-building that the president’s foreign policy strength lends to the rest of his agenda
E. the image strength lent by the sheer size of the executive establishment, even though the president has little direct control over most of it
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64. (p. 405) ________ was known as the “Great Communicator.”
A. Ronald Reagan
B. George H. W. Bush
C. Jimmy Carter
D. Lyndon Johnson
E. George W. Bush
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63. (p. 404) In the modern era, the equivalent practice of using the presidency as a bully pulpit (Theodore Roosevelt) could best be summed up in the phrase, “________.”
A. going public
B. spin control
C. air wars
D. lobbying the bureaucracy
E. manipulating the media
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