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Leadership and Management in the Presidency. FDR Changed everything: Now what? Agenda Management Use of Setting of Exec. Branch Advisors Truman Eisenhower Kennedy. Harry Truman: Agenda Setting. Truman Approval Ratings.
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Leadership and Management in the Presidency FDR Changed everything: Now what? Agenda Management Use of Setting of Exec. Branch Advisors Truman Eisenhower Kennedy
Truman Approval Ratings Sources: Gallup, AP, WSJ.com research. From: Wall Street Journal.com: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html
John Nance Garner 1933-41 Henry Wallace 1941-45 FDR VPs
Agenda Setting: Art and Science • Understanding trends • Prediction • Understanding impact of events • Timing • Salesmanship
Truman Agenda Setting • US as a global power • Fighting Communism • “Truman Doctrine” speech, March 1947 • NSC-68
Soviet A-Bomb August 22, 1949 http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=EarthHistory&Number=32788&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 Soviet H-Bomb November 22, 1953 Soviet Atomic/Nuclear Weapons
1949: Chinese Communists win Civil War Mao Zedong announces the People’s Republic of China October 1949
Two Developments • 22nd Amendment (1951) • Candidate-centered Politics
Organization Theory • Semi-independence • Budget and Turf Battles • Organizational Culture • SOP
Coordination • Delegation • Interagency Process • Staff System
John Foster Dulles George Humphrey Delegation
Interagency Process DepartmentsDepartments Cabinet Deputy Secretary level committee Under or Assistant Secretary level
Staff Chief of Staff Sherman Adams Ike and special assistant Robert Cutler
Dual Roles of Cabinet Officers President’s Key Adviser on an Issue vs. Senior Official of a Department of Agency
Types of Presidential Advisers • Experts • Independent Political Figures • Friends
JFK Advisers Robert Kennedy Douglas Dillon Robert McNamara Attorney General Sec. Treasury Sec. Defense Friend Independent Expert political figure
Bush 43 Advisers Condoleezza Colin Powell Donald Rumsfeld Nat’l Security Adv Sec. of State Sec Def Sec. of State Friend Independent Expert political figure
Obama Advisers Valerie Jarrett Hillary Clinton Robert Gates Senior Adviser Sec. State Sec. Defense Friend Independent Expert political figure