Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2001

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2001

FROM THE EDITOR.
June 1, 2001... This issue contains three articles, those by Peri E. Arnold, Charles E. Walcott, and Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., on the White House Office of Management and Administration; by Karen M. Hult and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas on the White House Office of...

The White House Office of Management and Administration.
June 1, 2001... The Office of Management and Administration is the administrative backbone of the White House staff. In the words of former Clinton assistant for management and administration Jodie Torkelson, "It's an organization that has all the cats and...

Networking in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Public Policy, the Administrative Presidency, and the Neoadministrative State.
June 1, 2001... As traditionally conceptualized by presidents and scholars, the administrative presidency is premised on three assumptions (Nathan 1983). First, congressional opposition to presidential legislative initiatives is the rule rather than the...

Presidential Power and Political Science.
June 1, 2001... The purpose of this article is to ask how the 1960 edition of Richard Neustadt's book Presidential Power has influenced presidential scholarship since its publication and how subsequent major scholars have built on, played off, or departed from...

The Office of the Staff Secretary.
June 1, 2001... The subject of White House staffing has never been the centerpiece of presidency literature. However, among the times when staffing should be the primary focus is the transition period when the president-elect prepares to become the next...

Professional Reputation and the Neustadt Formulation.
June 1, 2001... In his acknowledgments to the 1990 edition of Presidential Power, Richard E. Neustadt closes with this comment: "I have always tried to turn participant observership to the account of scholarship that might assist participants. I leave to...

The Office of the Press Secretary.
June 1, 2001... Being press secretary involves walking on a high wire and doing so daily. As the official spokesperson for an administration, he or she is the person who presents presidential information to many audiences, including the public, the president's...

The Contemporary Presidency: Presidential Safety, Prosecutorial Zeal, and Judicial Blunders: The Protective Function Privilege.
June 1, 2001... During the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal of 1998, the independent prosecutor demanded, for the first time in history, that Secret Service agents testify against the president whom they guarded. The director of the Secret Service contended that...

The Law: The President and the Independent Counsel: Reflections on Prosecutors, Presidential Prerogatives, and Political Power.
June 1, 2001... It is rare when a lone dissenting opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court case becomes front-page news, let alone is treated as if its content were prophetic and profound. Yet, during 1998 and 1999, Justice Antonin Scalia surely took some pleasure in...

The Polls: Popular Views of the Vice President and Vice Presidential Favorability.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... In my earlier article on public attitudes toward the vice president, which relied on job approval data, I found great overlap and correlation between the approval of Bill Clinton and Al Gore (Cohen 2001). There are several good reasons why we...

Source Material: His Heart's Abundance: Notes of a Nixon Speechwriter.
June 1, 2001... Each man speaks from his heart's abundance. Luke 6:45 What kind ora political speaker was Richard Nixon? Technically, he was gifted: he had, in Time magazine's words, a "buttery baritone" voice; he could deliver a cheer line with the...

Congressional Abdication on War and Spending.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Congressional Abdication on War and Spending. By Louis Fisher. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 220 pp. Those familiar with Louis Fisher's works will not be disappointed by Congressional Abdication on War and Spending. And...

Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands, eds. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 281 pp. How do you study a conflict that lacks the normal referents to battle...

Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. By Robert A. Strong. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 286 pp. Professor Strong has written an avowedly revisionist study of Jimmy Carter's...

What Motivates Bureaucrats? Politics and Administration during the Reagan Years.(Review)
June 1, 2001... What Motivates Bureaucrats? Politics and Administration during the Reagan Years. By Marissa Martino Golden. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 238 pp. This volume, by a Bryn Mawr political scientist, explores how federal...

The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of First Lady.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of First Lady. By Robert P. Watson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 260 pp. It has not been an easy task establishing research about the American First Lady as a legitimate area of scholarly...

The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond. By Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000. 491 pp. Bradley Patterson might justly be considered part of the institutional presidency. With fourteen years...

The Use of Force After the Cold War.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Use of Force after the Cold War. H. W. Brands, ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 304 pp. More than a decade after the cold war, foreign policy makers in the United States continue to struggle with the dilemma of...

American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War.(Review)
June 1, 2001... American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. By David Kaiser. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 566 pp. For years, scholars of U.S. intervention in Vietnam argued that American policy developed in an...

The Permanent Campaign and Its Future.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Permanent Campaign and Its Future. Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, eds. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution, 2000. 247 pp. In a 1977 memorandum advising newly elected President Jimmy Carter to...

Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955. Gunter Bischof and Saki Dockrill, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 319 pp. History is full of lost opportunities. What might have happened if things had been done...

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach. By Steven A. Shull and Thomas C. Shaw. Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 1999. 200 pp. Imagine, for a moment, a graduate student preparing for a...