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War and the Modern Presidency. “The Virginia Experiment:” Growing Seeds of Democracy in Four Hundred Years of American History. Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA December 7, 2006 Prof. Marc Selverstone Miller Center of Public Affairs
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War and the Modern Presidency “The Virginia Experiment:” Growing Seeds of Democracy in Four Hundred Years of American History Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA December 7, 2006 Prof. Marc Selverstone Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia
President Franklin D. Roosevelt October 8, 1940
Geena Davis Source: http://tv.yahoo.com
George Washington Source: http://memory.loc.gov
President Harry S. Truman Source: http://www.trumanlibrary.org
Presidential Roles • Chief Economist •Chief Diplomat •Legislative Leader •Party Leader •Chief Executive •Chief of State •Commander in Chief
LBJ Diary Lyndon Johnson Daily Diary August 4, 1964
The Constitution of the United States of America Article II, Section 2 • “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States . . .” Article I, Section 8 •“The Congress shall have the Power To . . . •provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . . •To Declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; • “To raise and support Armies . . .” • “To provide and maintain a Navy . . . •“To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; • “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, surpress Insurrections and repel Invasions . . .”
The Constitutional Convention Source: www.pbs.org
Congressional Declarations of War • England, 1812 •Mexico, 1846 •Spain, 1898 •Germany, 1917 •Japan, 1941
President Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson
SOL 9 – The U.S.Enters World Affairs www.vcdh.virginia.edu/solguide
FDR Wartime Regulatory Agencies • Office of Emergency Management •Board of Economic Warfare •National War Labor Board •Office of Defense Transportation •War Production Board
Presidential Roles • Chief Economist •Chief Diplomat •Legislative Leader •Party Leader •Chief Executive •Chief of State •Commander in Chief
Relevant Themes • Role of the President as Commander in Chief • Relationship Between Foreign and Domestic Policy • Domestic Political Context of Foreign Policymaking • Relationship Between Intelligence and Policymaking • Challenge of Managing the Press • Sheer Complexity of the Presidential Office
WhiteHouseTapes.org www.whitehousetapes.org
President Franklin D. Roosevelt October 25, 1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt September 27, 1940
Executive Order 9981, July 26, 1948 Source: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photos/9981a.jpg
Postwar Presidential Deployments • Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in Vietnam •Ford in Cambodia •Reagan in Lebanon, Libya, and Grenada •Bush 41 in Panama and Somalia •Clinton in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan, Bosnia, and Kosovo
The Executive Committee of the National Security Council October 27, 1962
Sec. Def. Robert McNamara, CJCS Maxwell Taylor, and President John F. Kennedy The White House, October 2, 1963
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy The White House, October 29, 1963 Source: www.jfklibrary.org
President John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy Jr. The White House, November 4, 1963 Source: www.jfklibrary.org
VII. President Lyndon B. Johnson Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu
President Lyndon B. Johnson January 31, 1964 Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu
Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner http://www.crmvet.org/
U.S.S. Maddox August 3-6, 1964 Source: www.history.navy.mil
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert S. McNamara The White House, July 2, 1965
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson The White House, July 7, 1965 Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu
VIII. President Richard M. Nixon Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu
President Richard Nixon and H.R. (Bob) Haldeman December 21, 1970 Source: www.history.navy.mil
President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger August 3, 1972 Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu