Organizing the Presidency, 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Stephen Hess, James P. Pfiffner

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than 50 people. In the ensuing years, as the United States became a world power and both the foreign and domestic duties of the president grew more complex, the White House staff has increased twentyfold. This book asks how best to manage a presidency that itself has become a bureaucracy. In the third edition of "Organizing the Presidency", Stephen Hess, with the assistance of James P. Pfiffner, surveys presidential organizations from Roosevelt's to George W. Bush's, examining the changing responsibilities of the executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, Capitol Hill and the permanent government. He also describes the kinds of people who have filled these positions and the intentions of the presidents who appointed them.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
1 The Evolving Modern Presidency......Page 16
PART ONE Evolution, 1993–2002......Page 24
2 A Composite Presidency......Page 26
3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1945......Page 36
4 Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953......Page 51
5 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953–1961......Page 64
6 John F. Kennedy, 1961–1963......Page 80
7 Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969......Page 93
8 Richard M. Nixon, 1969–1974......Page 106
9 Jimmy Carter, 1977–1981......Page 137
10 George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993......Page 161
11 George W. Bush, 2001–......Page 179
PART TWO Redefining the Presidential Task......Page 190
12 The White House/Cabinet Nexus......Page 192
13 Toward a More Functional Presidency......Page 213
A Advice for a President-Elect, 1976–1977......Page 226
B Transition Planning, 1980......Page 250
Notes......Page 258
B......Page 286
C......Page 288
E......Page 290
G......Page 291
H......Page 292
K......Page 293
M......Page 294
N......Page 295
P......Page 296
R......Page 297
S......Page 298
T......Page 299
W......Page 300
Z......Page 301