Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...
...charge of military measures in the South. Stanton disapproved of the Tenure of Office Act but, nevertheless, when the President asked his resignation, he refused to give it. So the President suspended him and made General Grant Secretary of War ad interim. When Congress assembled, it refused to consent to Stanton's removal and he returned to his office in the War Department building. President Johnson, however, appointed General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War. When Thomas tried to take over the Department, Stanton refused to budge. He had a hot temper and a sharp tongue. He sat tight, even lived...
...possibilities of the Court's decision, as they affect the power of the President and of the Senate, may be far-reaching. If the President has the power of summary removal, a future President might use it indiscriminately, removing even judges from the bench. If a definite consent of the Senate is needed for removal, a new check is placed on the President. Or it might be that, when the Senate approved a successor, it would, in that act, be considered to give its consent to a man's removal; and a man might be considered to continue in office...
Precedents. Alexander Hamilton was of the opinion that the consent of the Senate was necessary to remove an officer. Nevertheless, the first Congress acknowledged, in the act establishing the Treasury Department, that the President alone had full power of removal; but the vote on this delicate question, when taken in the Senate was a tie and only broken by the vote of the Vice President, John Adams...
...some years before the power of removal again came to the fore, but it came?when Andrew Johnson and Congress were grappling at each other's throats. In 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, prohibiting the President from removing any officer without the consent of the Senate. Congress was intent on having a different way from President Johnson's way in the administration of Reconstruction measures. In particular, it wished to see Secretary of War Edward McMasters Stanton continued in office because