Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2002

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2002

Ambassadorial roles and foreign policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957-61. (Articles).
June 1, 2002... Soon after assuming the presidency, John F. Kennedy adopted a program to achieve a "breakthrough" in South Vietnam even as he harbored doubts about the ability of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem to defeat the growing communist insurgency. As part...

The money primary: what influences the outcome of pre-primary presidential nomination fundraising? (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... During the early days of the presidential nomination campaign cycle, before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, candidates aspiring to win one of the two major party nominations compete for financial resources. Damore (1997) reported...

Another lesson about public opinion during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... From January 21, 1998--when the Washington Post reported Bill Clinton may have had a sexual relationship with a young woman and lied about it under oath--through February 12, 1999--when the Senate voted not to convict him of impeachment...

Counterfactuals and the study of the American presidency. (Articles).
June 1, 2002... There is little reason to suspect that [Andrew] Jackson or any of the other candidates contending in 1824 would have done much better. As none had a convincing case for breaking openly with the old order, none had the capacity to untangle the...

Five trends in presidential rhetoric: an analysis of rhetoric from George Washington to Bill Clinton. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... Observers of presidential politics have, for a long time now, lamented the declining standards of presidential discourse, which has been variously described as "a linguistic struggle," "rarely an occasion for original thought," like "dogs...

Unilateral presidential powers: significant executive orders, 1949-99. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... In the typical rendering of the American presidency, chief executives encounter formidable barriers to decisive leadership: a far-flung, entrenched bureaucracy (Wilson 1989); a largely independent and often recalcitrant Congress (Mayhew 1974;...

The contemporary presidency: the changing leadership of George W. Bush: a pre- and post-9/11 comparison. (Features).
June 1, 2002... The American presidency is said to be an office in which some incumbents grow and others swell. If ever a president has fallen in the first of these categories, it is George W. Bush. Before the suicide bombings of September 11, 2001, even a...

The law: homeland security: the concept and the presidential coordination office--first assessment. (Features).
June 1, 2002... The September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted the introduction of a new concept and a new presidential coordination office. Homeland security may be a substitute for the cold war-weary national security...

The polls: the public's response to the Clinton scandals, Part 2: diverse explanations, clearer consequences. (Features).
June 1, 2002... This is the second of two articles addressing the public's response to the Clinton scandals. The question underlying both articles is this: How was it possible for a president who consistently lied to the public and to his own administration;...

The legacy of John Adams.
June 1, 2002... John Adams. By David McCullough. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 751 pp. John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. 294 pp. Throughout most of the...

Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-First Century.
June 1, 2002... Edited by Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Joynt Kumar, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 525 pp. This volume is the product of a conference held at Columbia University in 1996 celebrating the thirty-fifth...

No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam.
June 1, 2002... By Larry Berman. New York: Free Press, 2001. i-xv, 334 pp. Referring in the title of his book to Richard Nixon's famous promise to end the Vietnam War in an honorable fashion, political scientist Larry Berman tells the story of how the...

Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy.
June 1, 2002... By Dean J. Kotlowki. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 404 pp. Many scholars have written about Richard Nixon's civil rights policies in the course of wider projects--biographies of Nixon, surveys of federal policy toward...

"Making the Difference between Mutual Destruction and Survival" Amerikanische Rustungskontrollpolitik unter Dwight D. Eisenbower, 1953-1960.
June 1, 2002... By Judith Niederberger. Zurcher Beitrage zur Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktforschung, no. 62, edited by Kurt R. Spillmann and Andreas Wenger. Zurich, Switzerland: Forschungsstelle fur Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse der ETH Zurich,...

Young Hickory: the Making of Andrew Jackson.
June 1, 2002... By Hendrik Booraem. Dallas, TX: Taylor Trade, 2001. xi, 318 pp. Hendrik Booraem's objective in Young Hickory is to add "context and depth to the standard version" of the narrative of Andrew Jackson's formative years (p. xii). More broadly,...

The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000.
June 1, 2002... By Michael A. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 273 pp. Genovese set out to write a history of the U.S. presidency and of presidential power primarily for college undergraduates. He begins with the dual propositions that...