Leadership and Management in the Presidency

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Leadership and Management in the Presidency

• FDR Changed everything Now what?
• Agenda Management Learning
• Setting
• Truman Eisenhower Kennedy

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Harry Truman Agenda Setting
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Truman Approval Ratings
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FDR VPs

• John Nance Garner 1933-41

• Henry Wallace
• 1941-45

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Advanced Industrial War

• Victory Outproducing the enemy

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• Senate Committee to Investigate the National
  Defense Program
• Truman Committee

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Agenda Setting Successful
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Agenda Setting Not so Successful
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Agenda Setting Art and Science

• Understanding trends
• Prediction
• Understanding impact of events
• Timing
• Salesmanship

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Truman Agenda Setting

• US as a global power
• Fighting Communism
• Truman Doctrine speech, March 1947
• NSC-68

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Division of Europe
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Soviet Atomic/Nuclear Weapons

• Soviet H-Bomb
• November 22, 1953

• Soviet A-Bomb
• August 22, 1949
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1949 Chinese Communists win Civil War

• Mao Zedong announces the Peoples republic of
  China now controls all of China, October 1949

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Republican Anti-Communism 1950s

• Senator Joseph McCarthy

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Korean War 1950-1953
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Dwight David EisenhowerManagement
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Why Like Ike?
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Moderate-Conservative Balance
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Ike vs. Stevenson

• Adlai Stevenson

• 1952 and 1956 elections
• From Atlas of US Elections

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Eisenhower Approval Ratings
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Organizational Chart
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Organization Theory

• Semi-independence
• Budget and Turf Battles
• Organizational Culture
• SOP

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• Coordination
• Delegation
• Interagency Process
• Staff System

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Delegation

• John Foster Dulles

• George Humphrey

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Interagency Process

• Departments Departments

Cabinet
Deputy Secretary level committee
Under or Assistant Secretary level
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JFK

• JFK Library
• JFK DNC speech 1
• JFK DNC speech 2
• JFK before Houston
• Ministerial Conf.
• Inaugural speech

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Republican Nominee
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Debates Nixons Uneasy
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JFKs Relaxed
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1963
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Bay of Pigs, April 1961
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Dual Roles of Cabinet Officers

• Presidents Key Adviser on an Issue
• Vs.
• Senior Official of a Department of Agency

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Types of Presidential Advisers

1. Experts
2. Independent Politicians
3. Friends

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JFK Advisers

• Robert Kennedy McGeorge Bundy Robert
  McNamara
• Attorney General Natl Security Adv. Sec Def
• Friend Independent Expert

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Bush 43 Advisers

• Friend Independent Expert
• Condoleezza Colin Powell Donald Rumsfeld
• Natl Security Adv Sec. of State Sec Def
• Sec. of State

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Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

• JFK Missile Crisis speech

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Dallas 11/22/1963
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LBJ Taking the Oath of Office