A total of 2.6 million private sector jobs have been lost across the past two years - a record for any modern presidency.
About love, faith, family and yes, the power of television to define the modern presidency.
The modern presidency holds the president as one of the nation's premier celebrities.
But as important as public relations can be to the modern Presidency, this is more than that.
Do they understand that "the buck stops here" is the core of the modern Presidency?
This is a peculiar moment in what will surely be remembered as one of the oddest modern Presidencies.
The key point in understanding Kennedy is his central place in the evolution of the modern American presidency.
The law of unintended consequences, far more than the Constitution, is what governs the modern presidency.
Photo ops are nothing new in the modern American presidency, but didn't they use to occasionally dramatize a president's policies rather than disguise them?
THE modern American presidency has become a universe unto itself.