for the actions or inactions of the people under his/her command. Just ask Tricky Dick er ah Richard Nixon, that is if he was alive today. :)

But then we have presidents like Ronald Regan who claim they know everything that is going on, until a scandal happens like the Iran-Contra thing, then they claim they didn't know what was going on and never gave their people any orders to do that stuff. Then they tell you to excuse them as they are shreading documents and erasing tapes as part of a record retension program. :)