Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from September 2000

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from September 2000

Presidents, Chiefs of Staff, and White House Organizational Behavior: Survey Evidence from the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
September 1, 2000... There has been an extensive body of research that investigates the organizational aspects of the American presidency (Buchanan 1990; Burke 1992, 25; George 1980; Hart 1995; Henderson 1988; Hess 1988; Johnson 1974; Porter [1980] 1988; Thompson...

The Knowles Affair: Nixon's Self-Inflicted Wound.
September 1, 2000... "Washington has not seen a worse mishmash of its kind in years," Robert J. Donovan of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1969 (Donovan 1969). Donovan was referring to a five-month-long controversy over the appointment of Dr. John H. Knowles to the...

Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign: Eisenhower's "I Shall Go to Korea" Speech.
September 1, 2000... It is not often the case that a single speech is credited with exerting a decisive effect on a presidential election. But Dwight Eisenhower's address of October 24, 1952 is one such speech. Both the Republican strategists who crafted and...

Conditional Partisanship and Institutional Responsibility in Presidential Decision Making.
September 1, 2000... The study of presidential decision making strikes an uneasy balance between the parsimony of a particular presidential decision and the complexity of the organizational dynamics and political environment that shape that decision. Given this...

Sex, Lies, and Presidential Leadership: Interpretations of the Office.
September 1, 2000... Presidential leadership is, by definition, ambiguous. From the founding to the present, presidential leadership has been defined, expanded, and limited through practice rather than theory. The presidency as an institution means whatever the...

As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Presidential Prerogative and Constitutional Government.
September 1, 2000... In The Education (1918), Henry Adams, perhaps our most astute observer of American history, confessed that had his life hung in the balance regarding his first judgment of President Lincoln, he would have lost it. Happily for Adams, historical...

The Contemporary Presidency: Managing White House-Congressional Relations: Observations from Inside the Process.
September 1, 2000... The complex dance between the president and Congress is perhaps one of the most misunderstood relationships in American government. Translating citizen preference into law and policy is at the very core of American representative democracy. The...

The Law: Litigating the War Power with Campbell v. Clinton.
September 1, 2000... Several recent scholars have suggested that federal courts have rarely decided cases involving the war power and that when they do, they invariably support the president. In a study on judicial review and the war power, Christopher May (1989)...

The Polls: Public Favorability toward the First Lady, 1993-1999.
September 1, 2000... The institutional presidency has expanded to engulf the offices of the vice president and the First Lady under its field of influence. One motivation for such institutional expansion of the presidency is that these, and similar offices, provide...

Source Material: The 1997 Published Transcripts of the JFK Cuban Missile Crisis Tapes: Too Good to Be True?
September 1, 2000... In the fall of 1997, I learned that Harvard University Press was about to publish The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, complete transcripts of the tape-recorded missile crisis conversations between...

Confronting the Kennedy Tapes: The May-Zelikow Transcripts and the Stern Assessments.
September 1, 2000... Recently, scholars and publishers have begun to take advantage of the recording technology that presidents have relied on since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). While transforming these recordings into data requires a massive...

National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War.(Review)
September 1, 2000... National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War. Craig Eisendrath, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 256 pp. This nicely titled collection of essays on American intelligence since the collapse of the Soviet Union in...

Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy. By Douglas C. Foyle. Columbia University Press. 1999. xiii + 379. How does public opinion affect foreign policy? Counting the Public In argues that presidents'...

Presidential Greatness.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Presidential Greatness. By Mark Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. University Press of Kansas, 2000. 278 pp. Rating presidential leadership and performance is a topic that has long fascinated scholars, journalists, and politicians. The most...

Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix, 394 pp. From his political writings to his relationships with slaves, Thomas Jefferson was a...

Re-election: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Re-election: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate. By Hanes Walton Jr. Columbia University Press, 2000. 308 pp. Hanes Walton Jr.'s recent book builds on his earlier work exploring the southern native-son politics...

In Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. By David Alistair Yalof. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. The issue of judicial selection processes and their outcomes has been one of...

The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton. By William W. Lammers and Michael A. Genovese. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000. 383 pp. Assessing presidential leadership has taken a...

Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Visiting Scholars Program.
September 1, 2000... The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, which provides financial assistance to researchers working at the Center's archives. Awards of...