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Across 8. A three-member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy. 9. The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution. 10. The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment. 11. A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event requiring the president to play the role of crisis manager.

Down 1. Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two terms of office. 2. Passed in 1967, this amendment permits the vice president to become acting president if both the vice president and the president's cabinet determine that the president is disabled. It also outlines how a recuperated president can reclaim the job. 3. An office created in 1947 to coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisers. Its formal members are the president, vice president, secretary of state, and secretary of defense. 4. The ability of congress to override a presidential decision. 5. A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within ten days of having submitted a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it. 6. The situation occurring when voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the president's party because they support the president. 7. The constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it. 8. A group of presidential advisers not mentioned in the Constitution, although every president has had one.