Leadership and Management in the Presidency

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Leadership and Management in the Presidency

• FDR Changed everything Now what?
• Agenda Management
• Setting of Exec. Branch
• Truman Eisenhower

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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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Agenda Setting Art and Science

1. Understanding trends
2. Prediction
3. Understanding impact of events
4. Timing
5. Salesmanship
6. Can you make the agenda bipartisan?

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Successful
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Successful

• Ronald Reagan ending welfare (1986 speech)

• Bill Clinton announces passage of welfare reform
  legislation (1996)

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Sucesssful

• Ending Big Government

• Clinton SOTU 1996
• The era of big government is over.

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Not so Successful
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Not so Successful

• Carters Energy Proposals 1977

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Successful or Not?

• 2010 PL 111-148 Patient Protection and
  Affordable Care Act
• 2012 National Federation of Independent
  Businesses v. Sebelius
• 2015 King v. Burwell

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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 October 1949

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Two Developments

• 22nd Amendment (1951)
• Candidate-centered Politics

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Dwight David EisenhowerManagement
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Why Like Ike?
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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

1. Delegation
2. Interagency Process
3. 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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Staff

• Chief of Staff
• Sherman Adams

• Ike and special assistant Robert Cutler