The Virginia Papers on the Presidency The Miller Center Forums 1991-1996

by Thompson, Kenneth W.

• ISBN13: 9780761809029
• ISBN10: 0761809023
• Edition: 30th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-03
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This volume explores the dual role of the president--leader of the American people and leader and spokesman for the United States. Part I examines the roles of the president through discussions of presidential leadership at summits, relations between Congress and the president, and the organization of policy-making. In Part II the focus shifts to the role of presidential communication in the international arena. American intervention is analyzed and the role of the U.N. executive committee is considered. The experiences of presidents on crucial domestic issues--education and science--is the theme of Part III. Contributors discuss how presidential policy on these issues influences the nation's future, both domestically and internationally. Part IV is a case study of the Cuban Missle Crisis that typifies the executive's role in the international setting, and Part V focuses on public philosophy and how it relates to urgent political problems. The book concludes with observations by the Miller Center's director on the history of the Center, the Miller Center series, and the contribution of public forums to a free and constructive exchange of ideas.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii	(4)
Kenneth W. Thompson
INTRODUCTION	xi
Kenneth W. Thompson
PART I	3	(50)
1. THE PRESIDENT AS POLITICAL LEADER AMONG LEADERS: PRESIDENTS AND SUMMITS	3	(20)
Keith Eubank
2. THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT: GOVERNING AFTER THE 1994 ELECTIONS	23	(12)
Roger H. Davidson
3. ORGANIZING POLICY-MAKING: DEFINING U.S. RESPONSIBILITIES	35	(18)
Inis L. Claude
Donald E. Nuechterlein
PART II	53	(46)
4. AMERICA'S RETREATING INTERNATIONAL ROLE: PRESIDENTS AND POLICIES, COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC	53	(16)
Norman A. Graebner
5. AMERICAN INTERVENTION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: PRESIDENTS AND POLICIES, COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC	69	(12)
Helmut Sonnenfeldt
6. THE U.N. EXECUTIVE, COMMUNICATION, AND THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC: TOWARD A TRUSTED INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE	81	(18)
Michael R. Fowler
PART III	99	(38)
7. PRESIDENTS AND EDUCATION: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND POLITICAL REALITIES	99	(18)
Maurice R. Berube
8. THE PRESIDENCY AND SCIENCE: THE COLD WAR AND AMERICAN SCIENCE	117	(20)
Stuart W. Leslie
PART IV	137	(18)
9. THE EXECUTIVE AND THE INTERNATIONAL SETTING: AMERICAN AND SOVIET GENERALS AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS	137	(18)
General William Y. Smith
PART V	155	(32)
10. THE PRESIDENCY AND THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY: VIOLENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY	155	(14)
Meindert Fennema
Dante Germino
11. THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RECOGNITION	169	(18)
Francis Fukuyama
CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS	187
Kenneth W. Thompson