Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
This chapter focuses on Benjamin Harrison, the first and only grandson of a president to be elected to the presidency. Harrison, who took charge of his administration and directed the actions of his subordinates, recognized that as president he possessed the executive power, and accordingly he told his subordinates what to do. Socolofsky and Spetter comment that he “would be sensitive about his executive and administrative authority as president and would not tolerate challenges to his power.” Harrison offered the most definitive statement of his attitude regarding the president's sole authority to execute the law in his memoirs published after he left office, specifically noting that the president “is responsible for all executive action.”
Keywords: grandson of president, Benjamin Harrison, executive power, Socolofsky, Socolofsky and Spetter, administrative authority, president's sole authority, executive action
Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
