Publisher's Synopsis
The unifying concept of this volume is the President as leader in the late twentieth century. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Reflections on the Presidency, Robert Strauss; Putting the Presidency on Automatic Pilot, Aaron Wildavsky; The President and the Congress: The Case of Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator J. William Fulbright; Congress and Foreign Policy, Lee Hamilton; The Presidency and Cabinet Government, Judge Shirley Hufstedler; The President and the Cabinet, Secretary Clifford M. Hardin; Presidents, Communication and the Public: The Kennedy and Nixon Administrations, Clark Mollenhoff; The President and the International Setting: International Private Enterprise, Dwayne Andreas; Foreign Policy in the Eighties: The President and the International Environment, Dean Rusk; Eight Presidents and Their Different Approaches to National Security, Paul H. Nitze; Presidents and the of the Nuclear Crisis, McGeorge Bundy; The President, the Public Philosophy and Nuclear War, Kenneth W. Thompson; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson.
