Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 1999

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 1999

Marcia Lynn Whicker, 1950-1999.
June 1, 1999... Marcia Lynn Whicker played a central role in the transitions taking place in Presidential Studies Quarterly. As a member of the editorial board, she aided in the smooth transition to a new publisher and editor. As book review editor, she worked...

War Powers, Constitutional Balance, and the Imperial Presidency Idea at Century's End.
June 1, 1999... Twenty-five years ago, students of the American presidency were confronted with the idea that the chief executive had overstepped the reasonable limits of power and was in danger of becoming imperial. Historian and presidential biographer...

The Symbolic Power of Ireland's President Robinson.
June 1, 1999... The election of the seventh president of Ireland, held on October 7, 1990, witnessed the triumph of Mary Robinson as the first woman president and the first successful non-Fianna Fail(1) candidate since 1945. The Irish Constitution states that...

"Overruled and Worn Down": Truman Sends an Ambassador to Spain.
June 1, 1999... Harry S. Truman answered the reporter's question in the "plain-speaking" manner Americans had come to expect from him. It would "be a long, long time before there is an ambassador in Spain," the president declared. The date was November 2,...

Interest Groups and Foreign Policy: Clinton and the China MFN Debates.
June 1, 1999... Beginning in the early 1970s and continuing into the post-cold war era, the U.S. foreign policy-making system has been transformed from the relatively closed and presidentially dominated system of the early cold war into a more open,...

Toward a Representational Framework for Presidency Studies.
June 1, 1999... In recent years, there have been numerous scholars who have taken the values and needs of democracy under consideration. Indeed, in political theory circles, the problems of democracy and self-governance stand today as central concerns. Some...

The Road Not Taken: Harry Hopkins and New Deal Work Relief.(Federal relief administrator under President Franklin Roosevelt)
June 1, 1999... One hot summer day in 1935, federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins presented his plan for alleviating the effects of the Great Depression to a group of shirt-sleeved Iowa farmers, not noted for their liberal ideals. As Hopkins began to...

A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964-1966.
June 1, 1999... Upon ascending to the presidency in January 1969, Richard Nixon commented that he had inherited a war not of his making from his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson.(1) Admittedly, the United States faced an increasingly difficult situation in...

Soon or Later On: Franklin D. Roosevelt and National Health Insurance, 1933-1945.
June 1, 1999... Whether we come to this form of insurance soon or later on, I am confident that we can devise a system which will enhance and not hinder the remarkable progress which has been made and is being made in practice of the professions of medicine...

The Seat of Popular Leadership: Parties, Elections, and the Nineteenth-Century Presidency.
June 1, 1999... In this article, I examine the relationship between the public and the president in the nineteenth century. While the relationship is generally thought to be a rather minimal one, I will suggest that there is an alternative way to conceptualize...

Liberalism versus Nationalism: The Prodevelopment Ideology in Recent Brazilian Political History (1930-1997).
June 1, 1999... Nationalism and the Vargas Years With the country facing a major economic and political crisis, Brazil's presidential elections of 1930 were held as usual. Not surprisingly, the government's candidate, Julio Prestes, emerged as the winner....

The Making of Theodore H. White's "The Making of the President 1960."
June 1, 1999... The publication in July 1961 of The Making of the President 1960, Theodore White's path-breaking account of the 1960 presidential election, instantly conferred on the forty-six-year-old reporter the mantle of premier journalistic interpreter of...

The Literary Presidency.(fictional portraits of US presidents define public perception of real presidents)
June 1, 1999... The American Constitution is quite succinct as to the qualifications and responsibilities of the president of the United States. Under Article II, Section 1, "the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,"...

Richard Nixon, State, and Party: Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Postwar Era.(American president)
June 1, 1999... We just don't have any discipline in government. That's our trouble.... We got to get it in the departments. President Richard M. Nixon to George Schultz(1) As Richard Milhous Nixon perceived it, the bureaucracy's lack of...

"Sheep without a Shepherd": The New Deal Faction in the Virginia Democratic Party.
June 1, 1999... Virginia State Senator Lloyd Robinette was near despair. In July 1941, he wrote to one of his closest allies in the fight against Harry F. Byrd's conservative Democratic political machine: I feel that at this time we are at the lowest...

John F. Kennedy and the Limited Test Ban Treaty: A Case Study of Presidential Leadership.
June 1, 1999... John F. Kennedy's foreign policy leadership style has evoked contradictory historical evaluations. The early assessments written by administration officials like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Theodore Sorensen, and Roger Hilsman depicted Kennedy as a...

Harry S. Truman & The Bomb: A Documentary History.
June 1, 1999... ROBERT H. FERRELL, ed., Harry S. Truman & The Bomb: A Documentary History (Worland, WY: High Plains, 1996), 128 pp. cloth (ISBN 1-881019-12-8). Historian Robert Ferrell, who has mined the rich Harry S. Truman Library holdings for at least...

Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua.
June 1, 1999... MICHAEL D. GAMBONE, Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953-1961 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), 264 pp., including Bibliography and Index. $65.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-275-95943-0). This book examines the economic and military...

Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas--Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950.
June 1, 1999... GREG MITCHELL, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas--Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950 (NewYork: Random House, 1998), 316 + pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-41621-8). As the Watergate scandal unfolded in...

The Elections of 1996.
June 1, 1999... MICHAEL NELSON, ed., The Elections of 1996 (Washington, DC: CQ press, 1997), 182 pp., $20.95 paper (ISBN 1-56802-219-0). In contrast to some other single-election anthologies, this collection of articles about the 1996 presidential and...

Liberalism and Its Discontents.(Review)
June 1, 1999... ALAN BRINKLEY, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 372 pp., $27.95 cloth (ISBN 0-674-53017-9). Liberalism and Its Discontents asks the basic questions, "What is liberalism?" and "What has...

George Washington: A Life.(Review)
June 1, 1999... WILLARD STERNE RANDALL, George Washington: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 548 pp., $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8050-2779-3). Right from the start, Mr. Randall gets himself into trouble when it comes to the facts about George Washington. For...

Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War.(Review)
June 1, 1999... BRUCE TAP, Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), xii, 301 + pp., $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7006-0871-0). More than a century ago, in Congressional Government, the first...

Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents.(Review)
June 1, 1999... ROBERT DALLEK, Hail to the Chief. The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents (New York: Hyperion, 1996), 232 pp., $22.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-7868-6206-X). The history of the American presidency is essentially the history of its...

The New Hampshire Primary and the American Electoral Process.(Review)
June 1, 1999... NIALL A. PALMER, The New Hampshire Primary and the American Electoral Process (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), xvi, 195 pp. including Index. $55.00 (ISBN 0-275-95569-9). There is a recurring theme within the literature on presidential...

The Other Elites: Women, Politics and Power in the Executive Branch.(Review)
June 1, 1999... MARYANNE BORELLI AND JANET M. MARTIN, eds., The Other Elites: Women, Politics and Power in the Executive Branch (Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner, 1997), 238+ pp., $55.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-658-7). Touting their book as one of the first...

Walking with Presidents: Louis Martin and the Rise of Black Political Power.(Review)
June 1, 1999... ALEX POINSETT, Walking with Presidents: Louis Martin and the Rise of Black Political Power (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1997), 251 + pp., $24.95 cloth (ISBN 1-56833-093-6). Long before Ronald Brown became the first African-American chairman...

Errata.(Review)
June 1, 1999... In the article titled "The Judicial Confirmation Crisis and the Clinton Presidency," by Sheldon Goldman, previously published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 28, Number 4 (Fall 1998), two lines were inadvertently lost from the text....