The President being a single individual often takes all the credit and or the blame conserning just about anything that happens or appears to happen while he is in office.

Consider how after less than 30 days in office Slick Willy was taking credit for the economy reaching unprecedented hieghts due to things that happened years before he even ran for the position.

Look at LBJ (a conservative dixi crat), and Kennedy, often cited for being big movers and shakers in civil rights reform which was not in fact the case.

Often times the focus is on the big guy in charge to the chagrin of all the worker bees.

Looks at civil rights:

Much more credit should have went to Hubert Humphrey the Farmer/Labor Parties cantidate vs Kennedy for the democratic primary. He was responsible along with Jeane Kirtpatrick and a small group of others (sans LBJ/ JFK) for allmost single handedly changing the the democratic party's traditional stance opposing such rights.

Yes thats right until Elenor Rosevelt and Hubert Humphrey, the democratic party was predominately the white southern racist party of Andrew Jackson (remeber it was the newly formed republican party that had the strong anti-slavery platform). In fact the reason Humphrey pushed so hard for the change was he feared the newly anounced intended focus (that was quietly proffered by Eishenhower a few days before the covention) for the republican party was indeed going to be a return to a civil rights agenda. Hubert wasn't going to have any of that, He was far to passionate about the subject to let his enemies take the baton. So he made a surprise speach at the last minute on the minority plank resulting in a walk out of the dixiecrats that helped put the dems on the civil liberties trail. When Ike heard about it he wrongly thought it would look like he was a copycat if he opened his address with a civil liberties focus so he changed his speech. SMH.

Humphrey's behind the scenes efforts over the years as majiority whip and later vice president changed the democratic party and in effect ultimately history allmost every single piece of legislation that conserned civil rights was pushed hard by him up until the late seventies when he died.

You don't hear much about him though do you?

No matter which cantidate wins he, or still perhaps she (LOL. if some perdictions hold true) is going to grab all the glory they can and unwillingly take much blame later, its the nature of the beast.