Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2006

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2006

Presidential doctrines: an introduction.
March 1, 2006... "If you want war, nourish a doctrine," William Graham Sumner asserted in 1903. Sumner, one of America's leading public intellectuals, was writing in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, a conflict brought on by expansionists citing the...

The Monroe doctrine: meanings and implications.
March 1, 2006... The Monroe Doctrine as articulated before the U.S. Congress in 1823 established a rhetorical style associated many years later with similar pronouncements during the Cold War and after. Typically couched in the language of idealism and high...

The Roosevelt Corollary.(Theodore Roosevelt )
March 1, 2006... As Mark Gilderhus shows in an article in this issue, the nineteenth-century history of the Monroe Doctrine featured decades of dormancy broken by sporadic reassertions and elaborations of the policy crafted by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe...

The Truman Doctrine: containing communism and modernity.(Harry S. Truman)
March 1, 2006... Addressing a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S Truman requested $400 million in military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey. Convinced that both countries faced Communist aggression, the president enunciated a...

Securing the Middle East: the Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957.(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
March 1, 2006... The Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 consisted of a major commitment by the United States to the security and stability of the Middle East. A declaration that the United States would use economic aid, military aid, and armed forces to stop the...

The Johnson Doctrine.(Lyndon B. Johnson )
March 1, 2006... As over 20,000 combat-ready U.S. troops landed in the Dominican Republic in late April and early May of 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson explained in a televised broadcast that "the American nations cannot, must not, and will not permit the...

The Nixon Doctrine: a saga of misunderstanding.(Richard M. Nixon)
March 1, 2006... Conventional wisdom holds that President Richard M. Nixon came into office in January 1969 with a new set of foreign-policy principles that were later dubbed the "Nixon Doctrine." Many who have heard of the doctrine--including most specialists...

The Reagan Doctrine: principle, pragmatism, and policy.(Ronald Reagan)
March 1, 2006... The Reagan Doctrine emerged in an unusual manner, as it was discovered rather than proclaimed. When he delivered his State of the Union message on February 6, 1985, Ronald Reagan did not plan to announce a guiding principle of his...

The contemporary presidency: the sixth year curse.
March 1, 2006... Near the end of 1958, Dwight Eisenhower relaxed for a weekend at the White House with his usual gang of friends. At breakfast, he remarked that 1958 had been a "terrible year" and described it as the "worst of his life" (Ambrose 1984, 486). If...

The law: "extraordinary rendition" and presidential fiat.
March 1, 2006... Renditions, the surrendering of persons to foreign jurisdictions, are commonplace in modern international affairs. When these transfers are made in accordance with treaty, and, if necessary, enabling statutes, and through a stipulated...

The polls: public opinion and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
March 1, 2006... George W. Bush's secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, has been characterized as a "central political figure in our time." (1) He is also one of the most controversial and contentious cabinet members of the Bush administration. Analysts argue...

You the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... You the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. By Vanessa B. Beasley. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 204 pp. In recent years, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the study of presidential...

Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman. By Robert Alexander Kraig. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 244 pp. Why did Woodrow Wilson undertake his final speaking tour, advocating the League of Nations...

The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ. By Michael Janeway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiv, 284 pp. "I grew up inside the world this book describes." With this opening line, Michael...

Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush. By Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mark J. Rozell. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 183 pp. In Power and Prudence, Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mark J. Rozell contend that it is...

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. By John F. Harris. New York: Random House, 2005. 504 pp. John F. Harris has written what probably will become the standard work on the Clinton presidency. Harris covered the White House for the...