The President may control one such position by his brother-in-law.

The President could not control criminal penalties enacted by the states on women seeking abortions.

The President of Iran is the highest official elected by direct, popular vote, but does not control foreign policy or the armed forces.

The next President must control government spending by curbing government programs.

National emergency powers allow the President unilaterally to control any business activity or person within the country.

Issuing an executive order would also uphold the principle that the President controls the military, not vice versa.

The general principle that the President controls the entire executive branch was originally rather innocuous, but extreme forms of the theory have developed.

They have also said that the President did not controlled the financing of his campaign.

That is unconstitutional, the critics say: the President must control the investigation of his own people's wrongdoing.

The real issue is whether the President or Congress controls independent agencies.