University of California Los Angeles Decisive Leadership Paper

As President of the United States, strong, exemplary, decisive leadership is always needed, even more so in the time of crisis or national emergency. The creation of our nation, the Civil War, the Great Depression, the use of atomic weapons to end a war, the Civil Rights movement stand out as examples of a crisis situation that, over a long period of time, had to be managed effectively.

Using what you have learned this semester and from reading Cohen, et al, select a President (see list below) and a moment in history – a crisis – that needed strong leadership and develop a paper that: