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"Ideologues and Presidents argues that ideologues have been gaining influence in the modern presidency. There were plenty of ideologues in the New Deal, but they worked at cross purposes and could not count on the backing of the cagey pragmatist in the Oval Office. Three decades later, the Johnson White House systematically sought the help of hundreds of liberals in drawing up blueprints for policy changes. But when it came time to implement their plans, Lyndon Johnson's White House proved to have scant interest in ideological purity.By the time of the Reagan Revolution, the organizations that supported ideological assaults on government had never been stronger. The result was a level of ideological influence unmatched until the George W. Bush presidency. In Bush's administration, not only did anti-statists and social conservatives take up positions of influence throughout the government, but the president famously pursued an elective war that had been promoted for a decade by a networked band of ideologues.In the Barack Obama presidency, although progressive liberals have found their way into niches within the executive branch, the real ideological action continues to be Stage Right. How did American presidential politics come to be so entangled with ideology and ideologues? Ideologues and Presidents helps us move toward an answer to this vital question."--Provided by publisher.

Draws on popular culture in the form of two movies & a TV series to shed light on the US psyche when it comes to presidential politics & the prospect of a female president. Critical analyses of the films Kisses for My President (1964) & The Contender (2000), & the TV series Commander in Chief (2005/06) are provided, asserting that each casts women as inappropriate for the presidency. These portrayals are briefly set against what is termed the far more comfortable depiction of the male president in the series The West Wing, & it is concluded that the female portrayals spring from worn out cliches & evince nothing of the creativity required to present a genuine picture of the world of a female president. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT -- THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT -- CONTENTS -- NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER -- PREFACE -- BECOMING MADAM PRESIDENT - THE CAMPAIGN -- BEING MADAM PRESIDENT - THE REALITY -- SCHOLARSHIP -- IS AMERICA READY FOR A WOMANPRESIDENT? IS THE POPE PROTESTANT?DOES A BEAR LIVE IN A CITY? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PUBLIC OPINION -- GENDER STEREOTYPES -- THE DOUBLE-BIND VS. BACKLASH -- A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ELIZABETH DOLE 2000 CAMPAIGN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- DOES THE OVAL OFFICE HAVE A GLASSCEILING? GENDER STEREOTYPES ANDPERCEPTIONS OF CANDIDATE VIABILITY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HYPOTHESES -- DATA AND METHODS -- ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- FOOTWEAR, LIPSTICK, AND AN ORTHODOXSABBATH:MEDIA COVERAGE OFNONTRADITIONAL CANDIDATES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- COVERING "FIRSTS" -- Print Coverage -- Television Coverage -- ELIZABETH DOLE'S BID FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION -- Media Coverage -- THE HURDLE OF MEDIA COVERAGE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CAN A WOMAN BE ELECTED PRESIDENT?STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS UNDER REFORMEDNOMINATION AND FINANCING RULES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PARTY CHARACTERISTICS -- Democratic Party Reforms -- Republican Party Reforms -- Internal Party Shifts Since the 1970s -- CURRENT FINDINGS -- PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION FINANCING AND THENECESSITY OF EARLY CANDIDACY DECISIONS -- ELIZABETH DOLE'S PRE-PRIMARY EXPERIENCE OF 1999 -- THE PRIMARY CALENDAR -- GENDERED ATTITUDES OF PRIMARYVOTERS AND CONVENTION DELEGATES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- THE NEXT CONTENDER:ASSESSING THE POOL OFWOMEN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TRAITS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES -- PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP -- WOMEN AS CANDIDATES AND LEADERS -- PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BEYOND MATERNALISM:WOMENAND THE SPACES OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION.

If a vice president dies, resigns, is removed, or his position is otherwise vacated, and if Congress is out of session, does the president have the authority to fill the vacancy through a recess appointment, or is his only means of installing a new vice president through the bicameral confirmation process under the Twenty‐Fifth Amendment? This article evaluates this novel constitutional question, which is important in light of the vice presidency's increased prominence in recent years, the expansion of presidential recess appointment power over the course of the nation's history, and the greater frequency with which presidents have carried out these unilateral actions in past decades. While arguments in favor of the president cannot be dismissed out of hand, ultimately it must be concluded that he lacks such power.

During his maiden address, Gabon's new leader promised to hold fresh elections at the earliest opportunity to restore civilian rule.

The U.S. Constitution vests the president with "executive power" and provides that "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy," while it endows Congress with the power "To declare War." These provisions have given rise to two major questions about presidential war powers: first, what should be the president's role in taking the country to war, and, second, what are the president's powers to direct its conduct. Historian Michael Beschloss's new book, "Presidents of War," examines how presidents have responded to each of these questions across two hundred years of U.S. history. The major argument of this book is that presidents have gradually assumed greater power over decisions to go to war – contrary, in his view, to the constitutional founders' vision. Although the book does succeed in offering some new insights into how that accretion of that power occurred, its more original contribution lies in its depictions of how presidents have handled and managed the tasks of waging war. Those responsibilities for the management and supervision in the conduct of America's wars have grown more complex as warfare has evolved – and they, too, look nothing like what the founders expected or might even have imagined. The book also puts an important focus on the continually shifting relationship between war-initiation powers and war-waging powers throughout the course of American history.

Argues that, in spite of vows to heal domestic wounds & salvage America's reputation abroad, no meaningful change has occurred since the election of President Barack Obama. An analysis of US policy towards Israel, Iraq, & Iran indicates that Obama has pursued the same course as a steward of the American Empire that was taken by George W. Bush. Russia's occupation of Afghanistan is compared with the current "Just War" in that country & Pakistan, which has created the integrated war zone called "Afpak." Obama's escalation of the War on Terror is pointed out, along with the continuation of torture & domestic wiretapping; & the establishment of new military bases in Colombia. However, even though there has been no substantive difference in American imperialism, there has been a significant upgrade "propagandistically" due to Obama's mastery of uplifting orations about America's glowing mission in the world. Obama is called a "hand-me-down version of Woodrow Wilson" whose style is marked for its "sonorous banality & armor-plated hypocrisy.". Adapted from the source document.