Review Three
POLI 308
Summer 2015
Jeri Newmann
This looks big, but don't
worry. If you have come to class and
done all the reading, nothing here should be new to you.
Also,
though there are a lot of terms, obviously, not each one of them is the subject
of an essay. These terms, in order, are an outline of everything we've done so
far. A group of them might be the subject of an essay. Usually, you can't
explain a single term without referring to the terms next to it. So, really, if
you can say one or two things about each term and how it relates to the terms
around it and fits into the larger issues and concepts related to terrorism,
you're doing fine. Some terms, however, are filled with enough significance to
be short answers/identifications on the test (four or five sentences), but
you'll be able to figure out which ones.
Terms with (*) in front of them may
have been included in the lectures, but were discussed, at length, in the
readings.
The exam will consist of two parts:
Part One: 20 Multiple Choice Questions (4
points each -- 80 points):
Part Two: short essay: Chose 2 of 5 (10
points each)
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:
Timing and Persuasion:
1964 Election
*The Great Society:
*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
*Brownstein’s arguments
*Electoral
Realignment and the Great Sorting Out
*The
growth of extreme partisanship
*extreme
partisanship leading to irreconcilable conflict between parties
*ideological
discipline within parties
*Four phases
of partisanship
*political
system more polarized than the people
*Age of
Bargaining
*Conservative Southern Democrats often
allied with conservative republicans and Liberal Republicans sometimes allied
with Liberal Democrats
*How
these ideas relate to Civil Rights and the collapse of the New Deal Coalition
*How
these ideas relate to the rise of George Wallace and the Nixon Southern
Strategy
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