He replaced his own boss Henry Halleck, who agreed to serve under him as Chief-of-Staff.
The date was not 1984. It was March 1864.
The president is the chief administrator of the federal bureaucracy.
As commander in chief of the armed forces
chief executive
Expressed Powers...... o.O
As head of state, and head of the Executive branch of the government, the President is the commander in chief of the US armed forces.
Winfield Scott Henry Halleck Ulysses S. Grant
sacajawea was never a chief
When National Guard troops are called to federal service, the President serves as Commander-in-Chief, so that's who it is.
He was appointed General-in-Chief in March 1864, and his first campaigns were launched in May.
The president is the chief administrator of the federal bureaucracy.
General Meade (New respondent...) That was the common perception, as Grant travelled alongside Meade's army in a mobile HQ. But the facts are that Grant suceeded Henry Halleck as General-in-Chief, and Meade continued as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Some say that it was Meade, not Grant, who should have taken Lee's surrender at Appomattox, since it was his army that had defeated Lee's. But Lee was also General-in-Chief, and Grant decided that one General-in-Chief should surrender to his opposite number.
Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General March 2, 1864 and was appointed General in Chief of the Federal Armies on the 10th of that month.
The president is the chief administrator of the federal bureaucracy.
A governor is the chief executive of a state. The federal chief executive is the President.
The President has express powers under Article II of the US Constitution. They are that the President is the Commander in Chief of the US Military and the power to take care that the laws of the US be faithfully executed.
Ultimately, per the US Constitution, Abraham Lincoln as the Commander In Chief of the US armed forces; but for most of the Civil War, the field commander was General US Grant
He had directly ordered them, as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Union. In fact, he even allowed a politician (McClernand) to raise a private army to reinforce Grant's own troops, though this caused much confusion and enmity.