Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from January 1997

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from January 1997

The foreign policy role of Vice President Al Gore.
January 1, 1997... There has been a post-World War II trend in the vice presidency whereby the second-office holder has an increasingly substantive role in White House foreign policy. The origins of this trend are not completely known.(1) Marie D. Natoli...

"It's the environment, stupid!": Clinton and the environment.
January 1, 1997... Bill Clinton ran for the presidency in 1992 with the motto "it's the economy, stupid!" His campaign centered around this catchy and perceived truism. Although this focus helped Clinton capture the White House, it has constrained him while he's...

The passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the U.S. House of Representatives: presidential leadership or presidential luck?
January 1, 1997... On November 17, 1993, President Clinton was able to take credit for a most unlikely accomplishment when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by a 234 to 200 margin. How could a trade...

Regulatory oversight in the Clinton administration.
January 1, 1997... Today we are sending a clear message to the special interests who used the Council on Competitiveness as a back door to avoid the law. That back door is closed. No longer will special interests receive special favors. No longer will our laws be...

President Clinton's 1993 inaugural address.
January 1, 1997... According to press reports, President Bill Clinton drafted his own 1993 inaugural address, with some help from his staff.(1) If these reports are true, what did the speech tell us about him? It probably uncovers little about his innermost...

First inaugural address of William J. Clinton: January 20, 1993.
January 1, 1997... My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring, a spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy...

Second inaugural address of William J. Clinton: January 20, 1997.
January 1, 1997... My fellow citizens: At this last Presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only on the edge...

Lost and found? Clinton's political center.
January 1, 1997... President Bill Clinton won re-election by promising, again, to govern from the political center. The major question is whether his near-death political conversion is as real as it was necessary. The answer lies as much in his psychology as in...

Second-tern presidents: history says.
January 1, 1997... President William J. Clinton's second term will assuredly place him in history. The newspapers and other purveyors of journalism, the so-called media, tell us that; common sense says similarly. What happens in that term will raise or lower his...

Clinton's second term: making women's rights a foreign policy issue.
January 1, 1997... Speculating about die future always engenders risk--after all, time will tell. Nonetheless, the opening of President Bill Clinton's second term provides a fitting opportunity for speculation, particularly in issues of foreign policy, where the...

Clinton's second term: what should he be doing in economic matters?
January 1, 1997... Some presidents have the good fortune to start a four-year term in office when the business cycle is at a cyclical trough or just beginning to recover from one, and thus enjoy the exhilarating sensations of being at the helm while the economy...

A revised reconsideration of Clinton.
January 1, 1997... First, a confession. I have already speculated on Clinton's second term and blew it badly. A little over a year ago, I publicly suggested that he wouldn't have one. This prediction was based on the massive accumulation of evidence concerning...

The 1992 and 1996 presidential elections: whatever happened to the Republican electoral college lock?
January 1, 1997... After Republican candidates won seven of ten presidential contests from 1952 through 1988, and five of six of the contests between 1968 and 1988, pundits proclaimed that the Republicans held an electoral college "lock" This view of a...

White House aides testifying before Congress.
January 1, 1997... Although White House aides do not testify before congressional committees on a regular basis, under certain conditions they do. First, intense and escalating political embarrassment may convince the White House that it is in the interest of...

High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition.
January 1, 1997... Stanley A. Renshon, (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 380 pp. $24.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-8147-7463-6). Readers who are interested in in-depth answers to the "why" questions about the Clinton presidency will find them in Stanley...

Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America.
January 1, 1997... Roger Morris, (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996), 503 pp. $27.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-8050-2804-8). Readers who are interested in in-depth answers to the "why" questions about the Clinton presidency will find them in Stanley Renshon's High...

The President We Deserve Bill Clinton: His Rise, Falls, and Comebacks.
January 1, 1997... Martin Walker, (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996), 351 pp. $27.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-517-59871-X). Readers who are interested in in-depth answers to the "why" questions about the Clinton presidency will find them in Stanley Renshon's...

The Choice.
January 1, 1997... Bob Woodward, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 439 pp. $26.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-684-81308-4). Readers who are interested in in-depth answers to the "why" questions about the Clinton presidency will find them in Stanley Renshon's High...

Below the Beltway: Money, Power, and Sex in Bill Clinton's Washington.
January 1, 1997... John L. Jackley, (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996), 198 pp. $24.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-89526-476-5). Readers who are interested in in-depth answers to the "why" questions about the Clinton presidency will find them in Stanley...

United Nations: The First Fifty Years.
January 1, 1997... Stanley Meisler, (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995) $24.00 cloth (ISBN 0-87113-616-3). It is a rare event that is not celebrated when it reaches a golden anniversary, nd the fiftieth year after the birth of the United Nations is no...

Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN.
January 1, 1997... Phyllis Bennis, (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1996) $17.95 paper (ISBN 1-56656-207-4). It is a rare event that is not celebrated when it reaches a golden anniversary, nd the fiftieth year after the birth of the United Nations is no...

U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System.
January 1, 1997... Charles William Maynes and Richard S. Williamson, eds., (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996) $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-393-03907-2). It is a rare event that is not celebrated when it reaches a golden anniversary, nd the fiftieth year after the...

The League of Nations: From 1919 to 1929.
January 1, 1997... Gary B. Ostrower, (Garden City Park, NY: Avery Publishing Group, 1996) $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-89529-636-5). It is a rare event that is not celebrated when it reaches a golden anniversary, nd the fiftieth year after the birth of the United...

The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals.
January 1, 1997... Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman, eds., (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, Inc., 1996), 408 + pp. $30.00 cloth (ISBN 1-56643-013-5), $22.95 paper (ISBN 1-56643-014-3). This volume is the first extensive examination of the record of...

Clinton and Post-cold War Defense.
January 1, 1997... Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996) xvii 197 pp. index $55.00 hardcover (ISBN: 0-275-95006-9). National defense stands as a top-priority obligation of government, but it received little attention in Clinton's campaign for...

At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995.
January 1, 1997... George F. Kennan, (New York:) W.W. Norton, 1996), 351 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-393-03882-3). With three years to go before the millennium, we can expect a cascade of books purporting to summarize, if not package, the last hundred years....

Powersharing: White House-Cabinet Relations in the Modern Presidency.
January 1, 1997... Shirley Anne Warshaw, (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996), 380 pp. $74.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-7914-2869-9), $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-7914-2870-2). In Powersharing: White House-Cabinet Relations in the Modern Presidency, Shirley...

The President Is at Camp David.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... W. Dale Nelson, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 196 + pp. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8156-0318-5). This is a fascinating book which describes and analyzes the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, where...