But the president lacks that option, because he needs all the support he can muster.

Then he voted against the $87 billion appropriation, complaining that the president lacked a clear postwar plan.

The administration is revising its plan because a federal judge ruled that the president apparently lacked legal authority for the original version.

The new NCG was found to be ineffective, with the president lacking control over government ministers, and due to divisions within the ruling party.

Even if the president lacks coattails, they say, his popularity is building the morale of active Republicans and has been a boon to the party's efforts to recruit candidates.

Apparently the president lacked the curiosity to pursue further intelligence, and was satisfied that he knew what was happening in the world.

Democratic Congressional leaders did the same, brushing aside the notion that a president elected without a popular majority would lack legitimacy.

Roosevelt told Corcoran that a president lacked the time to be true in all ways.

The panel's 2-to-1 opinion said that the president lacked the authority to exercise such broad coercive powers against American citizens without the consent of Congress.

He had a flair for the dramatic, a sense of timing that most other presidents before him had lacked.