On the left, you have the supposedly lightweight English TV talk-show host: on the right, the veteran occupant of the seats of power.
That authority, whose growth long preceded the current occupant of the office, owes everything to decisions by past presidents and legislatures, ensuring that the nation's leader has far greater power than originally anticipated.
Clinton and Bush, both former governors, and Obama, essentially a novice in 2009, all learned the hard way that the presidency is indeed a powerful job, but that in oddly paradoxical ways, the occupant of the Oval Office has less power than everyone else in Washington when it comes to actually enacting legislation.
But Holdren's list is also a telling reminder of the limits of power for any occupant of the White House.
Like the current occupant of the Oval Office, for instance.
It has plenty of power to slam its occupants into the leather seats.
McKay realizes that they are marooned in deep space, with only 24 hours before the shield runs out of power and the city's occupants are exposed to space.
He said energy waste could be linked to owners' failing to set building controls to minimize the use of power, or to lax habits by occupants, like leaving lights or computers on when they are not in use.
WASHINGTON — The last time a Democratic administration moved to town, 15 years ago, Robert M. Gates was a key player in the effort to assure a smooth transition of power from a Bush presidency to the fresh occupant of the White House.
Although, like the US, the Irish elect their head of state, the latter has none of the executive power of the occupant of the White House.
