Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from December 2000

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from December 2000

U.S. Presidents and the Use of Economic Sanctions.
December 1, 2000... With the end of the cold war, states have begun using economic sanctions with much greater frequency. Increased economic ties leading to a greater ability to impose economic sanctions, the end of the Security Council gridlock, and the desire to...

Gauging Public Opinion in the Hoover White House: Understanding the Roots of Presidential Polling.
December 1, 2000... Ours is a government by opinion, and the press is a most important part of that process. --Herbert Hoover Analyses of presidential polling during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations (Sudman 1982; Jacobs 1992, 1993; Jacobs...

Public Opinion and the Contradictions of Jimmy Carter's Foreign Policy.
December 1, 2000... One of President Jimmy Carter's more memorable promises was to conduct a foreign policy "that the American people both support... and know about and understand" (Carter 1977, 955). Ironically, Carter's foreign policy was neither supported nor...

Drafting Lyndon Johnson: The President's Secret Role in the 1968 Democratic Convention.
December 1, 2000... This article argues that contrary to perceived wisdom, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to be drafted by the 1968 Democratic convention. Johnson and his aides covertly planned all aspects of the convention, from the amount of space allotted to...

After the Missiles of October: John F. Kennedy and Cuba, November 1962 to November 1963.
December 1, 2000... In analyzing U.S. relations with Cuba during the Kennedy administration, scholars have understandably focused on dramatic events and policies--the Bay of Pigs invasion, the U.S. campaign of terrorism and sabotage known as Operation Mongoose,...

Do Primary Voters Draw from a Stacked Deck? Presidential Nominations in an Era of Candidate-Centered Campaigns.
December 1, 2000... Most observers of presidential nominations contend that the McGovern-Fraser Committee and other reforms of the early 1970s made the nomination process more democratic and open (Ranney 1975, 1977; Kirkpatrick 1978; Ceaser 1982; Polsby 1983;...

The Contemporary Presidency: Meeting the Freight Train Head On: Planning for the Transition to Power.
December 1, 2000... Presidential candidates must plan now for how the winner and his staff will make effective use of his early days in office, according to present and former White House staff members interviewed for the White House Interview Program. The program...

The Law: Controversy: Demise of the War Clause.
December 1, 2000... Adler (2000), in his trenchant attack in this journal on President Bill Clinton's use of the military power of the United States, vigorously restates the academic orthodoxy with regard to the war power. Clinton, it is argued, is the latest in a...

Virtues of the War Clause.
December 1, 2000... In his critique of my 2000 article "The Clinton Theory of the War Power" and themes prominent in some of my work on the Constitution and U.S. foreign policy, David Mervin (2000 [this issue]) concedes that my reading of the framers' intentions...

The Polls: Polling for a Defense: The White House Public Opinion Apparatus and the Clinton Impeachment.
December 1, 2000... The scandal surrounding President Bill Clinton and his subsequent impeachment and trial affords scholars a multitude of stories to tell--from abuses of executive privilege to partisanship run amok. One of the more interesting stories of the...

Source Material: Controversy: The Kennedy Tapes: Past and Future.
December 1, 2000... We are glad to reply to the concerns Sheldon M. Stem (2000) and Terry Sullivan (2000) have expressed in Presidential Studies Quarterly about The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They axe quite right to be...

Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. By Jean A. Garrison. College Park: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. 192 pp. There are two basic approaches to the study of presidents and national security...

Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC. By Amy Zegart. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.317 pp. There are two basic approaches to the study of presidents and national security policy making. The first, the...

Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention and Foreign Relations.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention and Foreign Relations. By Alexander DeConde. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. 391 pp. In a compelling narrative, written in the fine, lucid prose that has...

Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot. By Ignacio M. Garcia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 227 pp. In Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot, historian Ignacio M. Garcia chronicles the...

Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining & Religion's Role in Arum Self-Government.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining & Religion's Role in Arum Self-Government. By Lucas E. Morel. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2000. 272 pp. Milkis and Nelson (1990) lament that in contemporary presidential studies, there is a tendency to treat...

Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 377 + xv pp. Few presidential elections stand so prominent in American political lore as the...

The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By George McJimsey. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 374 pp. $34.95 cloth. An old Texas hoot warns against approaching "a horse from behind, a bull from the front, or an ambitious...

Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House. By Daniel E. Ponder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 244 + ix pp. Information is critical to a successful presidential administration. What information is...

Becoming JFK: A Profile in Communication.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Becoming JFK: A Profile in Communication. By Vito N. Silvestri. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 323 pp. John Kennedy was among the most memorable communicators of the past century. He moved a generation of people to pursue careers in public...

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote. By James E. Campbell. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 314 pp. Political scientists have long known that the presidential election vote is largely...

Bush Presidential Library Grants.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Peter and Edith O'Donnell Endowment in the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation provides grants to aid scholars doing research at the George Bush Presidential Library. Research must include, but not be limited to, holdings of the...