White House Studies Compendium, 第 2 卷Robert W. Watson Nova Publishers, 2007 - 448 頁 The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. This Compendium brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency -- dealing with both current issues and historical events. The compendia are the bound issues of 'White House Studies' with the addition of a comprehensive subject index as well as rearranged. |
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LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE FALL OF THE WARREN COURT | 97 |
THE PRESIDENT VS INTEREST GROUPS | 111 |
AMERICAN WOMEN PRESIDENTS | 327 |
CIVIL WAR FIRST LADY | 335 |
THE LADY FROM LEXINGTON | 345 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HISTORIC DIGITIZATION PROJECT | 355 |
LINCOLN BOYHOOD NATIONAL MEMORIAL | 359 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE | 367 |
THE CHANGING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SYSTEM | 369 |
THE HOME OF THOMAS JEFFERSON | 381 |
A PRELIMINARY STUDY | 127 |
THE CONTINUED NEED FOR THE PREROGATIVE PRESIDENCY | 141 |
THE IMPACT OF THE ACTIVIST PRESIDENT ON THE LOBBYING EFFORTS OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT | 161 |
THE ROLE OF FIRST LADIES IN HEALTHCARE REFORM | 177 |
THE ROAD TO THE GOVERNORS MANSION | 189 |
THE MEXICO AGENDA IN THE US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS | 205 |
PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT VETO STRENGTH AND LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY | 219 |
RALLYING EFFECTS OF ELECTION VICTORIES ON PRESIDENT CLINTONS HONEYMOON WITH THE PRESS | 235 |
EXPLAINING THE FAILURES OF THE HAYES AND HARRISON PRESIDENCIES | 255 |
THE CARTER ADMINISTRATIVE AND THE LEGISLATIVE VETO | 273 |
WHO DID A BETTER JOB INFORMING YOUTH VOTERS IN THE 2000 ELECTION TV NETWORK NEWS OR ONLINE NEWS? | 285 |
AN INTERVIEW WITH CHAIRMAN FRANK J WILLIAMS | 299 |
LETS BOUNCE THE RUBBER LINCOLNS | 305 |
CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL LINCOLN CENTER IN THE DEEP SOUTH | 307 |
A LINCOLNERA TRADITION REBORN | 315 |
SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT | 319 |
WOODROW WILSON HOUSE | 387 |
RUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL CENTER | 397 |
BOOK REVIEWS | 401 |
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The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency | 406 |
A Guide to the Historic Sites of US Presidents | 407 |
Foreign Policy Decision Making in the White House | 409 |
Presidents the Presidency and the Political Environment | 411 |
FDR and His Enemies | 412 |
Korea Vietnam and the Persian Gulf | 415 |
Who Will be in the White House? Predicting Presidential Elections | 418 |
The Politics of Presidential Selection 2nd ed | 420 |
Inside the West Wing and Beyond | 421 |
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | 425 |
INDEX | 431 |
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第 156 頁 - Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks: it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws, to the protection of property...
第 155 頁 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.
第 368 頁 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
第 142 頁 - This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it...
第 40 頁 - Is there, then, any other mode in which the necessary provision for the public wants can be made and the great advantages of a safe and uniform currency secured? I know of none which promises so certain results and is at the same time so unobjectionable as the organization of banking associations, under a general act of Congress, well guarded in its provisions.
第 151 頁 - These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity, trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them.
第 154 頁 - Decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch, will generally characterize the proceedings of one man, in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number; and in proportion as the number is increased, these qualities will be diminished.
第 154 頁 - To the end that war may not result in defeat, freedom of speech may, by act of Congress, be curtailed or denied so that the morale of the people and the spirit of the army may not be broken by seditious utterances...
第 155 頁 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
第 38 頁 - necessary" was used in that strict and rigorous sense for which the counsel for the State of Maryland contend, it would be an extraordinary departure from the usual course of the human mind, as exhibited in composition, to add a word, the only possible effect of which is to qualify that strict and rigorous meaning...