Organizing the Presidency.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- The Evolving Modern Presidency -- Part One: Evolution 1933-2002 -- A Composite Presidency -- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 -- Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 -- John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 -- Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 -- Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974, Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 -- Jimmy Carter 1977-1981, Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1989 -- George H.W. Bush 1989-1993, William J. Clinton 1993-2001 -- George W. Bush 2001- -- Part Two: Redefining the Presidential Task -- The White House/Cabinet Nexus -- Toward a More Functional Presidency -- Appendix A: Advice for a President-Elect 1976-1977 -- Appendix B: Transition Planning 1980 -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than fifty people. In the ensuing years, as the United States became a world power and both the foreign and domestic duties of the president grew more complex, the White House staff has increased twentyfold. This books asks how best to manage a presidency that itself has become a bureaucracy. In the third edition of Organizing the Presidency, Stephen Hess, with the assistance of James P. Pfiffner, surveys presidential organizations from Roosevelt¡¯s to George W. Bush¡¯s, examining the changing responsibilities of the executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, Capitol Hill, and the permanent government. He also describes the kinds of people who have filled these positions and the intentions of the presidents who appointed them.

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