Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from January 1998

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from January 1998

First-term presidents and their party's House freshmen: crafting a strategic alliance.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... Scholars have long maintained an interest in how presidents structure and push their policy agendas to get what they want from Capitol Hill and to enhance their own standing and that of their party. This article adds a modifier to the way we...

Congress, the president, and the use of military force: cooperation or conflict in the post-Cold War era?(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... The separation of powers regarding the use of the military force is one of the most widely disputed issues in the constitutional law of U.S. foreign policy. Many scholars have debated this question from a legal perspective, arguing whether the...

Presidential influence on independent commissions: a case of FTC staffing levels. (Federal Trade Commission)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... Independent regulatory commissions are intended to be autonomous and removed from direct outside control. They are not truly independent, however. The literature suggests that their regulatory policies and performances are affected by the...

Congressional relations and "public relations": in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... There has been relatively little research into efforts by nineteenth-century presidents to influence the legislative process. Yet, while institutionalized procedures and specialized staffs devoted to congressional liaison only emerged in the...

A short note on the expenditures of the McKinley campaign of 1896. (William McKinley)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... While the presidencies of William McKinley and William Jefferson Clinton seem to have little in common, both may be remembered in the long run for the controversy over expenditures in their respective campaigns. Given that over 100 years have...

When the relationship went sour: Syria and the Eisenhower administration.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... In the summer of 1919, Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlin College, and Chicago businessman and Democratic Party activist Charles R. Crane--that is, the King-Crane Commission--traveled to Syria, Lebanon, Anatolia, and Palestine to meet...

Two types of presidential influence in Congress.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... How does the president influence Congress? Richard E. Neustadt's classic work, Presidential Power, describes that power as "the power to persuade."(1) This article examines how the president exercises this power within the legislative process,...

In Reagan's shadow: Bush's antirhetorical presidency. (Ronald Reagan, George Bush)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... George Bush became president after perhaps the most public relations-driven presidency in history. President Ronald Reagan's command of the media was masterly and it created very high expectations for his immediate successor. For Bush, the...

The politics and poetry of advice and consent: Congress confronts the Roosevelt administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... An old saying claims that politics makes for strange bedfellows. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and for that matter most informed Americans, believed that when a slate of nominees for subcabinet positions in the State Department became...

Presidential leadership or structural constraints? The failure of President Carter's health insurance proposals. (Jimmy Carter)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... This study explores presidential leadership in domestic policy by assessing how Jimmy Carter, working with a Democratic majority in Congress, dealt with health care reform. This article will explore how the personal style, organizational...

Struggles of the first "New Democrat": Jimmy Carter, youth employment policy, and the Great Society legacy.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... The reevaluation of the Carter presidency has hit its stride. The critical interpretation of contemporary writers has been largely replaced With a more sympathetic understanding of the difficulties any American president would have faced in...

Foreign policy for sale? Interest group influence on President Clinton's Cuba policy, August 1994. (Bill Clinton)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
January 1, 1998... "Anything the Foundation wants, it gets."(1) Aide to Representative Robert Torricelli At 1:30 P.M. on a Friday afternoon (August 19, 1994), President Clinton held a White House Press Conference and reversed the U.S. policy of...

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1900.
January 1, 1998... JOSEPH MARTIN HERNON, Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 (Amonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), 217 + pp. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 1-56324-937-5). Even devoted readers of this journal will concede that Joseph Hernon...

Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate.
January 1, 1998... WARREN B. RUDMAN, Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate (New York: Random House, 1996), 287 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-679-44135-2). Senate memoirs often tell us more about their authors than about the legislative institution. So it is with...

The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees.
January 1, 1998... JOHN ANTHONY MALTESE, The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 232 pp. $26.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-5102-5). The president's nominee to the Supreme Court held impeccable credentials, and the...

Battles on the Bench: Conflict Inside the Supreme Court.
January 1, 1998... PHILLIP J. COOPER, Battles on the Bench: Conflict Inside the Supreme Court (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995), 224 + pp. $24.95 (ISBN 0-7006-0737-4). Justice Benjamin Curtis was so angry at Chief Justice Roger Taney's refusal to...

Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment.
January 1, 1998... GUNTER BISCHOF AND STEPHEN E. AMBROSE, eds., Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 256 + pp. $33.00 (ISBN 0-8071-1942-3). During the centennial of Dwight D. Eisenhower's birth in...

George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency.
January 1, 1998... DAVID MERVIN, George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency (New York: St. Martin's, 1996), 274 pp. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-312-12961-0). The early historical reviews of the Bush years are coming in and there is good news for presidential...

The Semi-Sovereign Presidency: The Bush Administration's Strategy for Governing Without Congress.
January 1, 1998... CHARLES TIEFER, The Semi-Sovereign Presidency: The Bush Administration's Strategy for Governing Without Congress (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994), $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8133-1930-7). The early historical reviews of the Bush years are coming in...

Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956.
January 1, 1998... COLE C. KINGSEED, Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 166 pp. including bibliography and index. $22.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-8071-1987-2). This thought-provoking book gives the reader a...

Deciding to Intervene: The Regan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy.
January 1, 1998... JAMES M. SCOTT, Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), 253 pp. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8223-1780-X), $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-8223-1789-3). In Deciding to Intervene: The...

Presidents and Foreign Policy: Countdown to Ten Controversial Decisions.
January 1, 1998... EDWARD R. DRACHMAN AND ALAN SHANK, Presidents and Foreign Policy: Countdown to Ten Controversial Decisions (New York: State University of New York Press, 1997), 390 pp. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7914-3339-0). How many students have, at one time...

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.
January 1, 1998... H.R. MCMASTER, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), $27.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-06-018795-6). This book details why the United States...

Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship.
January 1, 1998... JOHN CHARMLEY, Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940-57 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995), xv + 427 pp. $26.00 cloth (ISBN 0-15-127581-5). One of the sustaining processes of historical study is revision. A...

Strategic Deception in the Second World War.
January 1, 1998... MICHAEL HOWARD, Strategic Deception in the Second World War (New York: Norton, 1995), xiii + 271 pp. $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-393-31293-3). One of the sustaining processes of historical study is revision. A novel interpretation is more likely to...

The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945.
January 1, 1998... STANLEY WEINTRAUB, The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945 (New York: Truman Talley Books, 1995), xv + 730 pp. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-525-93687-4), $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-452-27063-4). One of the sustaining processes of...

Armistice 1918.
January 1, 1998... BULLITT LOWRY, Armistice 1918 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1996), xv + 245 pp. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-87338-553-5). In his book, Bullitt Lowry provides an in-depth analysis and historical account of the making of the armistice of...

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America.
January 1, 1998... GEORGE H. NASH, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996), 467 pp. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 1-882926-12-9). Although both deal with the origins, development, and growth of a...

Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics.
January 1, 1998... RALPH REED, Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics (New York: Free Press, 1996), 311 pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-684-82758-1). Although both deal with the origins, development, and growth of a post-World War II...