1.   All military death sentences must receive presidential approval before they can be carried out.

2.   But presidential approval ratings can plummet sharply.

3.   But we must remember that Robert McNamara was an equally brilliant defense secretary who, with presidential approval, escalated our role in Vietnam.

4.   By this time the CIA had discovered the Iranian operation and asked whether it constituted a covert operation that required formal presidential approval and notification of Congress.

5.   Each of these prohibited amendments would have required presidential approval, in the form of an emergency declaration, before they could be spent.

6.   From there, the list goes to the secretary of defense and on to the White House for presidential approval through the National Security Council.

7.   Her name was forwarded to Harare, the capital, for presidential approval.

8.   It was the sharpest one-month drop ever recorded in presidential approval.

9.   Sources say Gibbons has recommended presidential approval of the flight.

10.   Stockman forced a reluctant Congress to negotiate cost-saving reforms by withholding presidential approval for new projects.