Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Part I - The Man 1
• 1 - Capacity for Greatness 3
• 2 - Perspectives on Richard Nixon 9
• 3 - Comparing and Contrasting Ike and Dick 15
• 4 - One of Us 23
• 5 - High School Colloquium 35
• Part II - Major Domestic Policies and Hard Decisions 55
• The New Federalism and Revenue Sharing 57
• 6 - Richard M. Nixon, General Revenue Sharing, and American Federalism 59
• Social Welfare 83
• 7 - Outflanking the Liberals on Welfare 85
• 8 - Legislative Success and Failure: the Social Welfare Policies of the Nixon Administration 107
• Discussant: Robert H. Finch 132
• Discussant: Elliot L. Richardson 134
• Civil Rights Policy 139
• 9 - Richard M. Nixon, Southern Strategies, and Desegregation of Public Schools 141
• 10 - The Incoherence of the Civil Rights Policy in the Nixon Administration 159
• Discussant: Robert H. Finch 173
• Discussant: Sallyanne Payton 176
• Discussant: Roger Wilkins 186
• The Environment 189
• 11 - The Nixon Environmental Record: a Mixed Picture 191
• Discussant: John C. Whitaker 200
• The Economy 205
• 12 - Macroeconomic Policy under Nixon 207
• 13 - President Nixon's Political Business Cycle 221
• 14 - Nixon's Economic Policy toward Minorities 239
• Discussant: Herman A. Berliner 247
• Discussant: Herbert Stein 249
• Part III - The Politics of the Presidency 255
• The Silent Majority: Support for the President 257
• 15 - The Silent versus the New Majority 259
• Election Campaigning 283
• 16 - Richard Nixon: the Southern Strategy and the 1968 Presidential Election 285
• 17 - Campaign Financing and the Nixon Presidency: the End of an Era 299
• Discussant: David M. Dorsen 313
• Discussant: Thomas W. Evans 315
• Discussant: John Herbers 317
• Discussant: Maurice H. Stans 323
• Reorganization of the Executive Branch 329
• 18 - The Implementation of Cabinet Government during the Nixon Administration 331
• Discussant: Roy L. Ash 351
• Discussant: H. R. Haldeman 353
• Discussant: Arnold A. Saltzman 356
• Appointments to the Supreme Court 359
• 19 - The Supreme Court under Siege: the Battle over Nixon's Nominees 361
• Discussant: James Mcclellan 372
• Index 403
• About the Editors and Contributors 415

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