Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 1998

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 1998

The End of U.S. Intervention in Mexico: Franklin Roosevelt and the Expropriation of American-Owned Agricultural Property.
June 22, 1998... The first test of President Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy in Mexico was not over the March 1938 nationalization of the foreign-owned oil industry but rather involved the expropriation of American-owned rural property during the...

Expectations of Infamy: Roosevelt and Marshall Prepare for War, 1938-41.(Franklin D. Roosevelt)(George C. Marshall)
June 22, 1998... Singapore had fallen. American and Filipino troops were in bitter retreat on the Bataan peninsula. The whole of Southeast Asia appeared open to the Japanese. Time magazine put it plainly, if melodramatically, on February 23, 1942, "this was the...

The Institute of Inter-American Affairs and Its Health Policies in Brazil during World War II.
June 22, 1998... In March 1944, the U.S. Institute of Inter-American Affairs (IIAA) celebrated the second anniversary of its "cooperative health and sanitation program" in Latin America.(1) George C. Dunham, the director of the IIAA's health and sanitation...

Cracks in the Consensus: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Special Studies Project and Eisenhower's America.
June 22, 1998... "The age in which we live is one of deep and widespread ferment. We have been witnessing a revolution in politics, social order, science, economics, diplomacy, and weapons."(1) This is not the usual characterization of the "Eisenhower...

The Fourth Country Problem: Eisenhower's Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy.(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
June 22, 1998... "Soon even little countries will have a stockpile of these bombs, and then we will be in a mess," exclaimed President Dwight D. Eisenhower in spring 1954.(1) Eisenhower had hoped to energize an American nonproliferation policy that had...

John F. Kennedy and the two faces of the U.S. space program, 1961-63.
June 22, 1998... Although the competition between United States and the Soviet Union in the area of spaceflight may actually have begun with the launch of Sputnik I in 1957, most historians give John F. Kennedy the primary credit (or blame) for actually heating...

Nixon and the Marine Environment.
June 22, 1998... Nixon and the Environment In 1967, the Liberian-flagged tanker 7brrey Canyon ran aground near England's Land's End, the first supertanker accident and still among history's worst oil tanker spills.(1) In 1989, the Exxon Valdez grounded in...

Ronald Reagan and Redress for Japanese-American Internment, 1983-88.
June 22, 1998... Blood that has soaked into the sand of a beach is all one color. America stands unique in the world, the only country not founded on race, but on a way, an ideal.(1) Captain Ronald Reagan, December 1945 In 1984,...

Presidential Power and Democratic Stability under the Russian Constitution: A Comparative Analysis.
June 22, 1998... For social scientists, one of the consequences of the so-called third wave of democratization(1) that has taken place over the past two decades or so has been the revitalization of structural or neoinstitutional approaches to politics.(2) With...

Stability and Change in President Clinton's Foreign Policy Beliefs, 1993-96.
June 22, 1998... Debate over President Clinton's Worldview The election of Bill Clinton as president in November 1992 brought to Washington, DC, a "self-admitted [domestic] `policy wonk'" who "was clearly less comfortable with foreign and defense matters...

The "Sole Organ" before the Court: Presidential Power in Foreign Policy Cases, 1790-1996.
June 22, 1998... Few substantive areas have merited as little empirical scrutiny as the Supreme Court's decisions on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The Court's edicts on diverse domestic policy issues such as civil rights and liberties(1) and economic...

Raoul Berger on Executive Privilege.((response to commentary by Joseph K. Smaha on Raoul Berger))
June 22, 1998... The Spring 1997 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly contains a two-page commentary by Joseph K. Smaha titled "In Defense of Raoul Berger." The purpose of this commentary is to praise Berger for his position on executive privilege and...

Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow.(Review)
June 22, 1998... DENNIS DUNN, Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998), 384 pp., index, $29.95 cloth (IS BN 0-8131-2023-3). The history of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy and...

The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy.(Review)
June 22, 1998... DAVID MAYERS, The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 335 + xiii, including notes, bibliography, and index, $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-506802-5). Despite being geared to an audience of...

George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Review)
June 22, 1998... JAMES A. BILL, George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 274 pp., cloth (ISBN 0-300-06969-3). The value of James A. Bill's George Ball lies in its description of how a person plies...

Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia.(Review)
June 22, 1998... AUDREY R. KAHIN AND GEORGE McT. KAHIN, Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia (New York: New Press, 1995), 328 pp., $25.00 cloth (ISBN 1-56584-244-8). In the 1950s, President Eisenhower used a...

The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964.(Review)
June 22, 1998... FRANCIS X. WINTERS, The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 292 + pp. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8203-1874-4). The Vietnam War was a tumultuous era in world...

The Coming Conflict with China.(Review)
June 22, 1998... RICHARD BERNSTEIN AND ROSS H. MUNRO, The Coming Conflict with China (New York: Knopf, 1997), 245 pp. $23.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-45463-2). Journalists Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro have written an important book about the U.S....

Eisenhower and the Missile Gap.(Review)
June 22, 1998... PETER J. ROMAN, Eisenhower and the Missile Gap (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995), 208 + pp. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8014-2797-5). Making thorough use of recently declassified documents, Peter J. Roman has produced a carefully...

Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons.(Review)
June 22, 1998... ANDREAS WENGER, Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 461 pp. $26.95 paper (ISBN 0-8476-8515-2). The end of the cold war has brought many works that have reexamined crucial...

"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964.(Review)
June 22, 1998... ALEKSANDR FURSENKO AND TIMOTHY NAFTALI, "One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (New York: Norton, 1997), 420 + pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-393-04070-4). The collapse of the cold war brought with it the promise of new...

The Grand Chessboard.(Review)
June 22, 1998... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, The Grand Chessboard (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 223 pp. $26 cloth (ISBN 0-465-02725-3). Turn a map of the world upside down. Your eye will travel automatically to the center of the Eurasian landmass, probably coming...

After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order.(Review)
June 22, 1998... KEITH PHILIP LEPOR, ed., After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), 344 pp. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-292-74693-8). Keith Philip Lepor assembles one of the most compelling, intriguing, and...

NEWS NOTES.
June 22, 1998... New Parts in UPA'S Papers of the NAACP Document Origins of 1960s Militancy and Depth of Grassroots Activity The newest segments in UPA's microfilm series, Papers of the NAACP, document the NAACP's 1950s youth program role in 1960s civil...