Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 1998

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 1998

Predicting the outcomes of presidential commissions: evidence from the Johnson and Nixon years. (US presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon)
March 22, 1998... The problem started when the initial decisions were made to hand the process to one expert named Ira Magaziner, who knew, number one, nothing about politics, and number two, nothing about healthcare.(1) Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), on...

Executive Privilege in the Ford Administration: Prudence in the Exercise of Presidential Power.
March 22, 1998... The Watergate crisis brought the doctrine of executive privilege--which recognizes the right of the president to withhold information from the coordinate branches of government--to the forefront of political discourse in the United States....

Modern Presidential Transitions: Problems, Pitfalls, and Lessons for Success.
March 22, 1998... In the first year of the Clinton administration, President Clinton's White House staff was engaged in a heated discussion of the administration's economic stimulus package and its plight in the Congress. While some White House staffers urged...

Woodrow Wilson and administrative reform.
March 22, 1998... Over a long academic and political career Woodrow Wilson struggled with the question of how to achieve vigorous leadership and effective administration in a democracy. As a theoretician, he proposed a dramatic expansion of administrative...

Justice Byron White and separation of powers.
March 22, 1998... The first three articles of the Constitution describe a structure that both separates and intermingles the duties of government. The tension between these two elements of the design creates a fertile ground for conflict, particularly when any...

Herbert Hoover and the Presidential Campaign of 1932: The Failure of Apologia.
March 22, 1998... Despite Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory, few elections have held more lasting significance for political scientists, historians, and communication scholars than the presidential election of 1932. Never before had one issue--the Great...

Comparing Presidents Reagan and Eisenhower.
March 22, 1998... Many scholars--such as Richard E. Neustadt and Stephen Skowronek,(1) among others--have made notable analogies between presidents Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Indeed, the similarities are tantalizing. But one similarly...

Jefferson's Madison vs. Jefferson's Monroe. (personal styles of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe)
March 22, 1998... The so-called Virginia Dynasty of 1801 to 1825--the successive presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe--is generally portrayed as the period of America's republicanization. In 1819, a decade into retirement when he...

The president as disciplinarian: Wilson, Roosevelt, and congressional primaries. (presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt)
March 22, 1998... The role of party leader ranks high in every standard listing of presidential responsibilities. Yet, as analysts ranging from E. E. Schattschneider(1) to James MacGregor BUMS(2) have demonstrated, in a political system built on a foundation of...

Richard Nixon's Political Hinterland: The Shadows of JFK adn Charles de Gaulle.
March 22, 1998... Each president enters the White House to be confronted by the reputations of those who already have held the office. It is commonplace to ask the new incumbent which predecessors are to be admired. For Richard Nixon, the presidents included...

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations.
March 22, 1998... JAMES A. THURBER, ed., Rivals for Power. Presidential-Congressional Relations (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1996), 267 pp. $24.95 paper (ISBN 1-56802-152-6). A great many interesting and important questions are taken up in the articles...

Separation of POwers: Essays on the Founding Period.
March 22, 1998... GERHARD CASPER, Separation of Powers: Essays on the Founding Period (Cambridge, MA: 9 Harvard University Press, 1997), 202 + pp. $27.00 cloth (ISBN 0-674-80140-7). This compact work examines how precedent affected the early interpretation...

Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian.
March 22, 1998... WILLIAM T. HAGAN, Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 232 + pp. $25.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8061-2954-9). In Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian, William T Hagan examines the...

Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held on to the Presidency.
March 22, 1998... CLARENCE G. LASBY, Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held on to the Presidency (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997), 384 + pp. $29.95 (ISBN 0-7006-0822-2). Clarence Lasby, a professor of history at the...

Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography.
March 22, 1998... VAMIK D. VOLKAN, NORMAN ITZKOWITZ, AND ANDREW W. DOD, Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 190 pp., including Notes, Bibliography, and Index. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-231-10854-0). Hundreds of books,...

Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.
March 22, 1998... DINESH D'SOUZA, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (New York: Free Press, 1997), 292 pp., including Bibliography and Index. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-684-84428-1). If you want to feel good about your country, Ronald...

The Press and the Bush Presidency.
March 22, 1998... MARK J. ROZELL, The Press and the Bush Presidency (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996), 189 pp. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-95653-9). Most presidential scholars get their earliest data about a sitting president from the prestige press. We read what...

At the President's Side. The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century.
March 22, 1998... TIMOTHY WALCH, ed., At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997), 250 + pp. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8262-1133-X). The essays in this volume were prepared for a conference...

Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government.
March 22, 1998... DAVID OSBORNE AND PETER PLASTRIK, Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 397 + pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-201-62632-2). In 1992, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler published...

Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Government Too Little.
March 22, 1998... ANTHONY KING, Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 244 + pp. $24.00 cloth (ISBN 0-684-82730-1). Anthony King is an astute observer of the American political...

Events Leading Up to My Death: The LIfe of a Twentieth Century Reporter.
March 22, 1998... HOWARD K. SMITH, Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth Century Reporter (New York: St. Martin's, 1996), 419 + pp., including Index. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-312-13970-5). A May 1996 review in The New York Times critiquing a PBS...

Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons.
March 22, 1998... RALPH G. MARTIN, Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons (New York: Putnam, 1995), 680+ pp. $37.50 cloth (ISBN 0-399-14061-1). This is a book about relationships-the relationship of Joseph R Kennedy and his four sons, of the four...

The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family.
March 22, 1998... JEAN H. BAKER, The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family (New York: Norton, 1996), 576 pp. $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-393-03874-2). Adlai E. Stevenson II was a gentleman, and this may very well have been the cause of his failure to achieve...

The End of Affluence: The Causes adn Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... JEFFREY MARRICK, The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma (New York: Random House, 1995), 223 pp., including Notes, Index, and Figures. $22.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-43623-5). This book is another entry in...

Tripwire: Korea and Foreign POlicy in a Changed World.
March 22, 1998... DOUG BANDOW, Tripwire: Korea and Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1996), 190 pp. $19.95 cloth (ISBN 1-882577-29-9), $9.95 paper (ISBN 1-882577-30-2). If you are interested in reading about the reasons why...

The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
March 22, 1998... IRWIN UNGER, The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (New York: Doubleday, 1996), 400 pp. $27.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-385-46833-4). Both Newt Gingrich and David Bonyers would agree...

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty.
March 22, 1998... JAMES BOVARD, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (New York: St. Martin's, 1995), 408 + pp., including Index. $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-312-1233-7). Government actions are human actions. Sometimes human beings treat other human...