The President governs the activities of the Association.

This is the essence of the "vital center," from which most Americans want the President and Congress to govern.

In the American system the President does not govern alone; it is a system of multiple power centers.

His party wouldn't let him; and, after all, how a candidate runs shapes how a President governs.

The President, he said, governed the Army Engineers and could tell them what to do.

These departments are called Secretaries of State because they help the President to govern the country.

They want the President to govern without Congressional interference.

The new President will be governing in the face of robust opposition and free media.

No President can govern without compromise because no player is by himself or herself sufficiently in control of the political process.

"It's fair to say that the President and his Government are governing with a great deal of popular support," a senior Western diplomat said.