THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITEDSTATES: NEW ISSUESAND DEVELOPMENTS -- THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES: NEW ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- UNWILLING "SOLDIERS IN THE WARON BRUTAL INFLATION": CONGRESS,THE VETERANS, AND THE FIGHT WITHGERALD R. FORD OVER THE 1974 G.I. BILL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL TRENDS AND BACKGROUND -- FORD AND CONGRESS ON VETERANS AND INFLATION -- WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE AND A CONGRESSIONAL BACKSLIDE -- POLITICAL PRESSURE AND A TEST OF FORD'S RESOLVE -- FORD'S DECISION AND THE CONGRESSIONAL OVERRIDE -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- FROM CITING AUTHORITY TO RALLYING SUPPORT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Values Literature -- Presidential Literature -- Literature Summary -- METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A. Data Sources for Contentand Subject Matter Analysis -- APPENDIX B. Speech Data by Value and Pre - Institutionalization President -- APPENDIX C. Speech Data by Value and Post - Institutionalization President -- APPENDIX D. Executive Order Data by Value and Pre - Institutionalization President -- APPENDIX E. Executive Order Data by Value and Post - Institutionalization President -- APPENDIX F. Percentage of Values in Presidential Speeches -- APPENDIX G. Percentage of Values in Presidential Executive Orders -- ENDNOTES -- FORGOTTEN FREEDOMS:PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSESAND THE FIRST AMENDMENT -- ABSTRACT -- METHODOLOGY -- FINDINGS -- Freedom of Religion -- Freedoms of Speech and Press -- Freedom of Assembly -- Freedom of Redress -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- IN DEFENSE OF ANOTHER:THE ROLE OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONAND 60MINUTESIN THE GENNIFER FLOWERS SCANDAL -- ABSTRACT -- STRATEGIES OF APOLOGIA -- PERSPECTIVES FOR THE ANALYSIS -- THE KROFT/CLINTON INTERVIEW -- Context of the Interview -- The Interview -- Stylistic Strategy of the Interview.

CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE 110TH CONGRESS:PROSPECTS FOR COMPROMISE OR CONFLICT? -- ABSTRACT -- DEMOCRATS AND THE NEW MAJORITY: CONDITIONS FORCOMPROMISE OR CONFLICT? -- THE BUSH AGENDA: PRESCRIPTIONFOR COMPROMISE OR CONFLICT? -- CONCLUSION: CONFLICT TRUMPS COMPROMISE -- ENDNOTES -- SIZE DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER:WHITE HOUSESTAFF AND PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESS IN CONGRESS+ -- ABSTRACT -- DEVELOPMENTS IN WHITE HOUSE STAFF OPERATIONS -- WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND LEGISLATIVE SUCCESS -- DATA,METHODOLOGY AND HYPOTHESES -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ENDNOTES -- ENDNOTES -- FROM BENIGN NEGLECT TO STRATEGIC INTEREST:THE ROLE OF AFRICA IN THE FOREIGN POLICIESOF BUSH 41 AND 43 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SOURCES OF DIFFERENT POLICIES TOWARD AFRICA -- The World of George H.W. Bush -- The Space Between: Eight Years of the Clinton Administration -- The World of George W. Bush -- Summary: Historical Conditions, Worldviews and Africa -- AFRICA ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH -- Peaceful Change and Conflict Resolution -- Democracy and Improved Governance -- Free Market Economic Policies -- Transnational Issues -- Summary: Bush 41 and Africa -- EIGHT YEARS OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IN AFRICA -- AFRICA ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Promoting Peace and Stability: EACTI and TSCTI -- Advancing Political and Economic Reforms: AGOA and MCC -- Combating HIV/AIDS -- Summary: Bush 43 and Africa -- CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- STAYING THE COURSE AS WORLD LEADER:BILL CLINTON AND THE USEOF HISTORICAL ANALOGIES -- ABSTRACT -- PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY RHETORIC,COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND ANALOGY -- TO RETREAT OR LEAD IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD -- CONTINUING AMERICA'S LEADERSHIP ROLE :CLINTON'S USE OF WORLD WAR I, II AND HARRY TRUMAN -- Clinton's World War I Dystalgia -- Clinton's World War II Nostalgia.

Harry Truman: The Exemplar of Transitional Leadership -- CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- WOODROW WILSON: HIS LEGACY AND HIS LIBRARY -- THE WILSON LEGACY -- THE WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY -- ENDNOTES -- INDEX.