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Introduction: Leadership, Democracy, and the Presidency |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE PRESIDENCY |
| Author: Marcus Cunliffe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,345 Words, 8,635 Characters |
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Much current writing about the American presidency is distinctly gloomy in tone. Earlier in the century, the received wisdom was that "strong" presidents were good presidents (Washington, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and so on) and that "weak" presidents (Buchanan, Taft, Harding, among others) were bad. This picture began to change with the publication of books like George Reedy's The Twilight of the Presidency (1970). Reedy, former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson, saw the office as a grotesque modern monarchy, with all the sins (bombast, waste, concealment, toadying) that had led the Founding Fathers to cut loose from King George III. The supposedly excessive, indeed unconstitutional, claims for executive privilege were dissected in Arthur Schlesinger's The Imperial ...
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...; they pilot the nation through crises, usually involving war; and they risk assassination. Perhaps the proper conclusion, as it might be framed by a Grimke or an Emerson, is that ordinarily able presidents seem great to us when the context obliges them to rise to the occasion. In which case, the nation, and the presidency, are arguably in no worse shape now than they have been for many a year.
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