Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 2009

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 2009

Executive order--Presidential records.
June 1, 2009... By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in...

The effects of the George W. Bush presidency on partisan attitudes.
June 1, 2009... "Hello, I'm Jim Greer, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. As the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan prepares to choose its nominee for president of the United States, Florida is honored to host tonight's...

"The American system": Herbert Hoover, the associative state, and broadcast commercialism.
June 1, 2009... More than 80 years after he guided the formation of U.S. broadcasting as we know it, Herbert Hoover remains an object of scorn for many commentators. A blogger recently blamed Hoover for what he considers the sorry state of television and...

"To be shot at by the whites and dodged by the negroes": Lyndon Johnson and the Texas NYA.(National Youth Administration)
June 1, 2009... Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency is one marked by no shortage of controversial topics, but his civil rights policies are not usually among them. Even most of his critics applaud his leadership in this area, particularly with regard to the passage...

POTUS on the road: international and domestic presidential travel, 1977-2005.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Presidents have forged some of the most enduring images of their administration while traveling around the country or across the world. One need look no further than Abraham Lincoln dedicating a cemetery to fallen Union soldiers in Gettysburg,...

Presidential power in national security: a guide to the president-elect.
June 1, 2009... Respect for the Constitution and joint action with Congress provide the strongest possible signal to both enemies and allies. By following those principles, other countries understand that U.S. policy has a broad base of support and is not the...

Decision making in the Bush White House.(The Contemporary Presidency)(George W. Bush)
June 1, 2009... The process of moving paper in and out of the Oval Office, who gets involved in the meetings, who does the president listen to, who gets a chance to talk to him before he makes a decision, is absolutely critical. It has to be managed in such a...

Presidential aides: immunity from congressional process?(The Law)
June 1, 2009... The 110th Congress brought a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the rigor of oversight and investigations into the activities of the executive branch. Obstructive tactics by the president met this strong assertion of congressional...

Dixie's kingmakers: stability and change in Southern presidential primary electorates.(Polls and Elections)
June 1, 2009... The distinctiveness of the South is a prominent feature of the American political landscape, and its contours have regularly been evident in postreform presidential nomination politics. (1) In 1976 and 1992, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton used...

A presidential library fit for Abraham Lincoln.(Source Material)
June 1, 2009... Looking for a presidential library? If so, for which president? How recently did that president hold office? In the world of presidential libraries, the great divide is between Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge. Beginning with Herbert Hoover,...

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. By Barton Gellman. New York: Penguin, 2008. 483 pp. It is generally agreed that Richard Cheney has been history's most powerful American vice president. Although several of Cheney's recent predecessors...

Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal. By Stephen Skowronek. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 208 pp. Stephen Skowronek's thesis about "political time"--an orderly, sequential pattern of regime decay...