Presidential Studies Quarterly

Speculating about die future always engenders risk--after all, time will tell. Nonetheless, the opening of President Bill Clinton's second term provides a fitting opportunity for speculation, particularly in issues of foreign policy, where the flux...

My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring, a spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy that...

President Bill Clinton won re-election by promising, again, to govern from the political center. The major question is whether his near-death political conversion is as real as it was necessary. The answer lies as much in his psychology as in his...

Today we are sending a clear message to the special interests who used the Council on Competitiveness as a back door to avoid the law. That back door is closed. No longer will special interests receive special favors. No longer will our laws be ignored...

President William J. Clinton's second term will assuredly place him in history. The newspapers and other purveyors of journalism, the so-called media, tell us that; common sense says similarly. What happens in that term will raise or lower his reputation...

There has been a post-World War II trend in the vice presidency whereby the second-office holder has an increasingly substantive role in White House foreign policy. The origins of this trend are not completely known.(1) Marie D. Natoli explains that...

Although White House aides do not testify before congressional committees on a regular basis, under certain conditions they do. First, intense and escalating political embarrassment may convince the White House that it is in the interest of the president...