The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.... The Commander in Chief Clause assures that there can be no military force beyond the president’s control.

The President shall be Commander in Chief...of the Militia of the several ... called forth by Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 15. Yet there remained the question of what the president ...

President Jimmy Carter, the nation's 39th chief executive and the first U.S. Naval Academy graduate to serve in the Oval ...

Under a section called the "Commander-in-chief clause," Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution says the president "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the ...