The Virginia Papers on the Presidency

Volume 16

Kenneth W. Thompson

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 1984
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461752639
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Utilitarianism

Reflections on the presidency by insiders and outsiders. Table of Contents:Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Presidents I Have Known: Reflections on Political Leadership, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.; The President and the Internal Revenue Service, The Honorable Mortimer Caplin; Presidential Advisors, Personnel and the Johnson Presidency, The Honorable John Macy; The American Presidency Viewed from Britain and Australia, Professor Hedley Bull; The Presidency and Foreign Aid, The Honorable Fowler Hamilton; The Public Philosophy of the Kennedy/Johnson Presidencies, The Honorable Orville Freeman; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson.

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN: REFLECTIONS ON POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
• THE PRESIDENT AND THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
• PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS, PERSONNEL AND THE JOHNSON PRESIDENCY
• THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY VIEWED FROM BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA
• THE PRESIDENCY AND FOREIGN AID
• THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE KENNEDY/JOHNSON PRESIDENCIES
• CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS