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Change and Continuity: The Presidency in Historical Perspective |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE PRESIDENCY |
| Author: Leo P. Ribuffo |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 5,557 Words, 37,815 Characters |
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When Ronald Reagan cast his first vote for president in 1932, the major party nominees were Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. We can, with less arbitrariness than usually characterizes historical demarcations, view Roosevelt's election that year as the beginning of the contemporary presidency. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who voted for Roosevelt are still among us in the 1980s. The techniques presidents use to rally friends, harass foes, manage the federal government, and deal with other nations resemble those inherited from Roosevelt in 1945. Perhaps most important, controversies that marked FDR's long presidency--over the welfare state, the limits of presidential authority, and Soviet-American relations--remain current.
The office Hoover held and Roosevelt sought in 1...
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... behalf of all the people are thwarted by unruly legislators and recalcitrant bureaucrats. They will rearrange agencies, bureaus, and staffs in futile attempts to outflank the executive's perennial intragovernment rivals. Ultimately, the presidents most able to stretch their constraints, imposed by institutions and precedents, will be those who understand they hold a broadly political office.
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