Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2003

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2003

The joy of power: changing conceptions of the presidential office.
June 1, 2003... In the closing weeks of his presidency, Bill Clinton consented to an interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone Magazine. "I love this job," the president told Wenner, "and I love the nature of this work.... I got to deal with politics,...

The Manchester Union Leader's influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican primary.
June 1, 2003... In a media environment dominated by large corporations answerable to stockholders, newspapers and television news programs are often criticized for being bland and inoffensive as they try to protect the financial bottom line (Picard 1998;...

Our chief magistrate and his powers: a reconsideration of William Howard Taft's "Whig" theory of presidential leadership.
June 1, 2003... William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh president of the United States, is primarily remembered as an insignificant leader serving between far more interesting presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. But Taft is also remembered as...

Reassessing public opinion polling in the Truman administration.
June 1, 2003... Scholars have recently explored the origins of the institutionalization of public opinion polling in the administrative apparatus of the White House (see Jacobs and Shapiro 1995; Heith 1998; Eisinger and Brown 1998; Eisinger 2000). However, the...

Evolution of the modern rhetorical presidency: presidential presentation and development of the state of the union address.
June 1, 2003... He [the president] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. --U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section...

Presidential success in communicating with the public through televised addresses.
June 1, 2003... One of the president's most conspicuous and potentially powerful uses of the bully pulpit is the televised address to the nation. With these addresses, the president has the opportunity to enter homes throughout America to speak to people...

The contemporary presidency: communications operations in the White House of President George W. Bush: making news on his terms. (Features).
June 1, 2003... White House operations reflect the president whom the staff serve. His strengths are theirs and his weaknesses are mirrored in the organization. "Whether it's communications, whether it's campaigning, whether it's domestic policy, no matter...

The law: the constitutionality of congressional-executive agreements. (Features).
June 1, 2003... The limited attention to international agreements in the Constitution has created a void that has left students of American jurisprudence with little direction as to which situations require a Senate-ratified treaty and which situations can be...

The polls: can presidential rhetoric affect the public's economic perceptions? (Features).
June 1, 2003... A small but important literature has found that major presidential speeches may improve the level of public approval toward the president under certain conditions (Ragsdale 1984, 1987; Brace and Hinckley 1992). (1) Ragsdale (1984, 980) reports...

Source material: toward the study of the first lady: the state of scholarship. (Features).
June 1, 2003... I hope that someday someone will take the time to evaluate the true role of the wife of a president, and to assess the many burdens she has to bear and the contributions she makes. --Harry S. Truman Getting right to the point, first...

Children, mothers, and U.S. presidents.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. By Robert Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 266 pp. Faith of Our Mothers. By Harold I. Gullan. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001. 394 pp....

Presidents, the Presidency, and the Political Environment.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By John H. Kessel. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2001. 292 pp. This book was not what I expected, given its title. In fact, had it been alliteratively more appealing, The Presidency, the Political Environment, and Presidents...

Presidents and the People: the Partisan Story of Going Public.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Mel Laracey. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 267 pp. Presidents and the People explores the deep historical roots of popular presidential leadership. Laracey challenges the view, made prominent by scholars such as...

Governing from Center Stage: White House Communication Strategies during the Television Age of Politics.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Lori Cox Han. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001. 290 pp. Few books on the presidency and the news media are as ambitious in intent as Governing from Center Stage, in which Loft Cox Han seeks to present a comprehensive analysis of the...

The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By MaryAnne Borrelli. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002. 277 pp. In this very ambitious and important study, Borrelli sets out to understand how gender influences the politics of cabinet nominations in the United States. To this end, she...

Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Tevi Troy. New York: Rowman & Little field, 2002. 255 pp. Finally, there is a justification for those of us who spent years in graduate school while our college buddies were making money on the stock market. A Ph.D. might get not only a...

The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2000.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.228 pp. The grave mistakes made on network news broadcasts during the debacle that was the coverage of Election Night 2000 were, as Farnsworth and...

Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: the Court-Packing Crisis of 1937.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Marian C. McKenna. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. 612 pp. In her new work, Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War, Marian McKenna, a professor emerita at the University of Calgary, takes a fresh look at the...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Robert A. Caro. New York: Knopf, 2002. xxiv, 1167 pp. Early on in the third volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, covering the years from 1948 to 1960 and aptly titled Master of the Senate, Robert Caro pithily observes, "power...

Nixon.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Iwan Morgan. London: Arnold, 2002 (copublished in the United States by Oxford University Press). 228 pp. This volume is part of a series entitled "reputations," the aim of which is to reconsider and reevaluate the reputations of major...

Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 346 pp. Economist W. Carl Biven has written an interesting case study of economic policy making in the presidency, specifically the presidency of Jimmy Carter....