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When the Constitution was written, the president was given very limited powers, consisting of military, diplomatic, appointment, and legislative powers, all of which were limited especially by the American Congress. Throughout the history of the United States, many presidents have been able to increase thte power of their title, leaving more opportunities for future presidents as well. When George Washington became the first president, he created the cabinet of advisors that every president has used since. Although Washington's cabinet only consisted of four heads of executive departments, many presidents added to that number as the years went on. The first addition to the cabinet was the Department of the Navy, created in 1798, which eventually became part of the Department of Defense. In 1921, President Warren Harding invited his vice president, Calvin Coolidge to attend his cabinet meetings, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower made the vice president an official addition to the cabinet three decades later. The most recent addition to the cabinet was the Department of Homeland Security in 2001, following the terrorist attacks of September eleventh. Today, there are fifteen official cabinet members, in addition to the vice president. After George Washington, Thomas Jefferson was the next president to make a big change to the executive office. Previously, the runner-up in the presidential election would become the vice president, but after Aaron Burr became Jefferson's vice president, Jefferson decided the opposing party was not ideal for his second in command, and in 1804, it was decided that the vice president would campaign alongside the president in elections. Another influential president was Andrew Jackson, as he strengthened the party system and the power of the presidential veto. After Jackson, Abraham Lincoln had a major affect on the presidential powers when he suspended Habeas Corpus and ignored the Congress when he expanded the US Army. Perhaps the most influential presidents were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. During Teddy Roosevelt's time as president, he created what is now referred to as the "bully pulpit," where he publicly spoke out on any issue he saw as important for the people. He also proposed many ideas for laws to protect workers, end child labor, and regulate the nation's food supply, which led to the creation of the Department of Labor and Commerce and the Food and Drug Administration. He even signed laws that would establish five major national parks, leading him to sign the Antiquities Act in 1906, which would allow presidents to proclaim historic landmarks as national monuments. Roosevelt sent over four hundred messages to Congress during his time in office, reporting on the state of the union. Woodrow Wilson was the first president to deliver this state of the union as an annual speech, rather than the written document that existed since John Adams' presidency. Woodrow Wilson was president at the time of the first World War, during which he transformed the American foreign policy from isolation to internationalism. Under Wilson's leadership, Congress enacted banking reform, tariff reduction, federal regulation of business, support for labor and collective bargaining, and federal aid to education and agriculture. These changes aimed to humanize the industrial system, and they would pave the way for the modern welfare state. Wilson's wartime mobilization program would inspire Franklin D. Roosevelt's fight against the New Deal and his mobilization policies during the second World War.