Table Of ContentINDEX  TO VOLUME  34 
IN MEMORIAM 
KESSEL, JOHN H. 
Richard E. Neustadt’s Intellectual Contributions 
KUMAR, MARTHA JOYNT 
Richard Elliott Neustadt,  1919-2003:  A Tribute 
WAYNE, STEPHEN J. 
Richard E. Neustadt as Teacher and Mentor:  A Personal Reflection 
ARTICLES 
ABBOTT, PHILIP 
Borges’s Encyclopedia and Classification  in Presidential Studies 
BAILEY, JEREMY DAVID 
Executive Prerogative and the “Good Officer” in Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to 
John B. Colvin 
BauM, MATTHEW A. 
How Public Opinion Constrains the Use of Force: The Case of Operation Restore Hope 
BRANDS, H. W. 
George Bush and the Gulf War of 1991 
BRANDS, H. W. 
Introduction 
BuRNS, MELANIE 
See JAcoss, L. R. 
CANES-WRONE, BRANDICE 
The Public Presidency, Personal Approval Ratings, and Policy Making 
CHILDERS, JAY P. 
See HART, R. P. 
CLEMENTS, KENDRICK A. 
Woodrow Wilson and World War I 
COHEN, JEFFREY E. 
If the News Is So Bad, Why Are Presidential Polls So High? Presidents, 
the News Media, and the Mass Public in an Era of New Media 
DRUCKMAN, JAMES N., and JusTIN W. HOLMES 
Does Presidential  Rhetoric Matter? Priming and Presidential Approval 
Hart, RODERICK P., and Jay P. CHILDERS 
Verbal Certainty in American Politics: An Overview and Extension 
HOLMES, JUSTIN W. 
See DRUCKMAN, J. N. 
Jacoss, LAWRENCE  R., and MELANIE BURNS 
The Second Face of the Public Presidency: Presidential Polling and the Shift from 
Policy to Personality Polling 
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KIMBALL, WARREN F. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II 
KRAUSE, GEORGE A. 
The Secular Decline in Presidential Domestic Policy Making: 
An Organizational Perspective 
LAUCELLA, MELCHIORE J. 
A Cognitive-Psychodynamic Perspective to Understanding Secretary of 
State Cyrus Vance’s Worldview 
LOGEVALL, FREDRIK 
Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam 
NEWMANN, WILLIAM W. 
The Structures of National Security Decision Making: Leadership, Institutions, and 
Politics in the Carter, Reagan, and G. H. W. Bush Years 
OFFNER, JOHN L. 
McKinley and the Spanish-American War 
OLSON, KATHRYN M. 
Democratic Enlargement’s Value Hierarchy and Rhetorical Forms: An Analysis of 
Clinton’s Use of a Post-Cold War Symbolic Frame to Justify Military Interventions 
PFIFFNER, JAMES P. 
Did President Bush Mislead the Country in His Arguments for War with Iraq? 
ROBINSON, SCOTT E. 
The President as Reformer: When Do Presidents Initiate Administrative Reform 
through Legislation? 
SIEMERS, DavID J. 
Principled Pragmatism: Abraham Lincoln's Method of Political Analysis 
UNDERWOOD, JAMES E. 
Lincoln: A Weberian Politician Meets the Constitution 
WATTENBERG, MARTIN P. 
The Changing Presidential Media Environment 
Woop, B. DAN 
Presidential Rhetoric and Economic Leadership 
ZAREFSKY, DAVID 
Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition 
ZEGART, AMY B. 
Blue Ribbons, Black Boxes: Toward a Better Understanding of Presidential 
Commissions 
FEATURES 
ADLER, DAVID GRAY 
The Law: Termination of the ABM Treaty and the Political Question Doctrine: 
Judicial Succor for Presidential Power 
BRIANS, CRAIG LEONARD, and STEVEN GREENE 
Elections: Voter Support and Partisans’ (Mis)Perceptions of Presidential Candidates’ 
Abortion Views in 2000 
CROCKETT, DAVID A. 
The Contemporary Presidency: Unity in the Executive and the Presidential Succession 
Act
FARNSWORTH, STEPHEN J., and S. ROBERT LICHTER 
Source Material: New Presidents and Network News: Covering the First Year in 
Office of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush 
GREENE, STEVEN 
See BRIANS, C. L. 
HocGukE, HENry B. 
The Law: Recess Appointments to Article II] Courts 
JOHNSON, LOCH K. 
The Contemporary Presidency: Presidents, Lawmakers, and Spies: 
Intelligence Accountability in the United States 
KLAREVAS, LOUIS 
The Law: Can You Sue the White House? Opening the Door for Separation of 
Powers Immunity in Cheney v. District Court 
LICHTER, S. ROBERT 
See FARNSWORTH, S. J. 
MAYER, JEREMY D. 
The Contemporary Presidency: The Presidency and Image Management: Discipline in 
Pursuit of Illusion 
MONTGOMERY, BRUCE P. 
Source Material: Sequestered from the Court of History: The Kissinger Transcripts 
NEWMAN, BRIAN 
The Polls: Presidential Traits and Job Approval: Some Aggregate-Level  Evidence 
ROPER, JON 
The Contemporary Presidency: George W. Bush and the Myth of Heroic Presidential 
Leadership 
SHUGART, MATTHEW SOBERG 
Elections: The American  Process of Selecting a President:  A Comparative Perspective 
SINIVER, ASAF 
Source Material: The Truth Is Out There: The Recently Released NSC Institutional 
Files of the Nixon Presidency 
SOLLENBERGER, MITCHEL A. 
The Law: Must the Senate Take a Floor Vote on a Presidential Judicial Nominee? 
WATTENBERG, MARTIN  P. 
Elections: Personal  Popularity in U.S. Presidential  Elections 
WATTENBERG, MARTIN  P. 
Elections: Tax Cut Versus Lockbox:  Did the Voters Grasp the Tradeoff in 2000? 
REVIEW  ESSAYS 
GENOVESE, MICHAEL A. 
The Lessons of Watergate: Thirty Years On (Watergate:  The Presidential Scandal that 
Shook America, by Keith W. Olson; Richard Nixon,  Watergate, and the Press:  A Historical 
Retrospective, by Louis W. Liebovich) 
PINSKER, MATTHEW 
Understanding Lincoln (The Real Lincoln:  A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, 
His Agenda, and an Unnecessary  War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo; Lincoln & Davis: 
Imagining America,  1809-1865, by Brian R. Dirck; Judging Lincoln, by 
Frank J. Williams)
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BOOK REVIEWS 
Abbott, The Challenge of the American Presidency 
ERWIN C. HARGROVE 
Adler and Genovese, eds., The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy 
MICHAEL E. BAILEY 
Benoit, Pier, Brazeal, McHale, Klyukovski, and Airne, The Primary Decision: 
A Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries 
EMMETT H. BUELL, JR. 
Biven, Jimmy Carter’s Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits 
JAMES ANDERSON 
Brownlee and Graham, The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and 
Its Legacies 
JOHN W. SLOAN 
Burlingame, ed., Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous 
Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard 
MICHAEL E. LONG 
Clinton, Living History 
SARAH E. BREWER 
Conley, The Presidency, Congress, and Divided Government: 
A Postwar Assessment 
STEPHEN A. BORRELLI 
Conley, ed., Reassessing the Reagan Presidency 
THOMAS S. LANGSTON 
Davidson, ed., Workways of Governance: Monitoring Our Government's Health 
KAREN M. KEDROWSKI 
Denton, Jr. and Holloway, eds., Images, Scandal, and Communication 
Strategies of the Clinton Presidency 
TREVOR PARRY-GILES 
Denton, Jr., ed., The 2000 Presidential Campaign:  A Communication Perspective 
J. CHERIE STRACHAN 
Edwards III, On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit 
PAUL BRACE 
Eisinger, The Evolution of Presidential Polling 
DouG as  C. FOYLE 
Gould, The Modern American Presidency 
MARGARET SUSAN THOMPSON  171 
Hattaway and Beringer, Jefferson Davis: Confederate President 
Davib COLES  898 
Heith, Polling to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership 
JOHN G. GEER  896 
Houck, FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address 
KAREN S. JOHNSON-CARTEE  696 
Howell, Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action 
TERRY SULLIVAN  459 
Hult and Walcott, Empowering the White House: Governance under 
Nixon, Ford, and Carter 
MATTHEW J. DICKINSON
Martin, The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion 
CAMILLA STIVERS 
Moe, Administrative Renewal: Reorganization Commissions in the 20th Century 
‘  MICHELLE L. CHIN 
Newmann, Managing National Security Policy: 
The President and the Process 
PAUL A. KOWERT 
Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War 
COLIN DUECK 
Pacelle, Jr., Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and 
the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation 
Nancy Kassop 
Parmelee, Meet the Candidate Videos: Analyzing Presidential 
Primary Campaign Videocassettes 
MArY CHRISTINE BANWART 
Parry-Giles and Parry-Giles, Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential 
Image-Making in Postmodern Politics 
JOHN M. JONES 
Pederson and Williams, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln: 
Competing Perspectives on Two Great Presidencies 
DaviD BRIAN ROBERTSON 
Pfiffner, The Character Factor: How We Judge America’s Presidents 
JOHN H. KESSEL 
Rozell, Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, 2d ed. 
DANIEL LEVIN 
Schier, You Call This an Election? America’s Peculiar Democracy 
RAYMOND B. WRABLEY, JR. 
Spragens, New Media Millennium: Federal and State Executive Press Aides 
and Ambition Theory 
Louis W. LIEBOVICH 
Stern, Averting the “Final Failure”:  John F. Kennedy and the Secret 
Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings 
JEFFREY W. TALIAFERRO 
Tatalovich and Engeman, The Presidency and Political Science: 
Two Hundred Years of Constitutional Debate 
RICHARD J. ELLIs 
Walch, Uncommon Americans:  The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover 
TIM H. BLESSING 
Wallison, Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of 
His Presidency 
JOHN KENNETH WHITE 
Weisberg and Wilcox, eds., Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: 
The 2000 U.S. Election 
D. SUNSHINE HILLyGus 
Woolner and Kurial, FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church 
in America,  1933-1945 
TimoTHyY A. BYRNES