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Gaming the system is the process of finding loopholes or arranging things so that you can get around the law and usually do just what is prohibited in a way that is not a criminal offense. It is done mostly by corporations trying to avoid laws and regulations, but government officials in the Executive Branch often do the same thing to get around the laws which have been passed but the current administration now finds inconvenient.


In 1902 there was a national crises brought about by a coal strike. At that time the president had no legal powers in such a matter. Lodge urged President Theodore Roosevelt to take a symbolic public stand on the strike issues. He did so, and it led to a successful arbitration of the dispute. It was one of the first examples of presidential "jawboning:"