POLI 308 Summer 2015

Bill Newmann

Review Two

The format of this exam will be the same as Exam One

 List of Terms:

JFK and Advising

The importance of presidential advisors

Dual role of Cabinet officers

Three kinds of Cabinet Officers

LBJ:

Essence of Presidential Power: (Neustadt)

Persuasion/Bargaining

LBJ's political method: Finding out who wants what and doling out favors

His view of legislation: Bargaining and negotiation

LBJ on Civil Rights:

Civil Rights Act 1964

Voting Rights Act 1965

His persuasion method on Civil Rights:

Persuasion in a fragmented society:

• New Deal Coalition
• The Johnson "Treatment"
• Danger of Democratic Party fracturing over Civil Rights

Timing and Persuasion:

• Honeymoon
• Political Capital
• LBJ's use of "crisis" fulfilling the JFK legacy
• LBJ's Double Honeymoon

1964 Election

• *Goldwater as too extreme?

*The Great Society:

• *Great Society as out-New Dealing the New Deal
• Federal Power
• Federal Role
• Federal Spending

*Vietnam as Persuasion and Bargaining and negotiation

*LBJ’s belief in Domino Theory

Vietnam and the end of the Great Society

NIXON:

*Electoral Realignment

Democrats loss of the South

Impact of 1950s and 1960s changes on New Deal Coalition

Civil Rights -- successes and failures

Expansion of federal power -- Civil Rights and Great Society

Failure in Vietnam

Division in Democratic Party Over Civil Rights

Losing the South

Labor and urban North

LBJ's challengers in the 1968 election

Nixon's coalition

The Silent Majority/Quiet Americans

Southern Strategy

George Wallace

The Southern Presidential vote in 1968 and 1972 vs. previous years

The Administrative Presidency under Nixon

White House control/management of the government

Domestic Council

John Ehrlichman

National Security Council staff

Henry Kissinger

Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman

Problems with the Administrative Presidency

Cabinet Government?

Isolation

Line vs. Staff

Their definition of their responsibilities

Staff Protecting the President

*Feeding Nixon's Flaws

*Nixon and constant crisis atmosphere

*Enemies List

*Paranoia

*Nixon’s obsession with image

*Nixon’s non-ideological conservatism/moderate policies (Nixon as a liberal)

*Tricky Dick

*Nixon and the press

*psycho-biographical portrait of Nixon 

Watergate:

Cambodia Bombing and leaks

*Secret investigative unit -- Plumbers

*Their links to the White House and CREP

*Watergate Burglary of DNC Headquarters 6/17/72

*Investigations

*Senate

*Grand Jury

*Special Prosecutor

*Washington Post

*The Tapes

*Nixon's position on the tapes

*Saturday Night Massacre

*Elliott Richardson

*Revelations in the Tapes:

*Nixon part of cover-up

*Abuse of Power

*Nixon's claims of innocence

*House Judiciary Committee and articles of impeachment

*Spiro Agnew

*Gerald Ford

*The Pardon

Ford and Carter

Two incumbents beaten in a row

*The Problem

*Imperial Presidency

*Lying

*No-win Presidency

*American people's feelings about Presidents

*New Media view of Presidents -- Woodward and Bernstein

*Antagonism

*Rise of interest group power

*Congressional Power:

*War Powers Resolution

*Clark Amendment

*Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act 1974

Goals of New Congress

1976 election

Carter campaign themes

Honesty

outsider

Carter's theory of Governing

Politics vs. what is right

Trusteeship Presidency

Carter's idea vs. LBJ model

Alienating the Democrats in Congress

Economic Problems

Crisis of Confidence speech

Iran Hostage Crisis

Carter's misunderstanding of leadership

A Crisis of Leadership?

What this implies about US people and the Post-Watergate Presidency? -- Bring back FDR?