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Author Genovese, Michael A., author.

Title Encyclopedia of the American Presidency / Michael A. Genovese and Alison D. Howard
Edition Fourth edition
Published [New York, N.Y.] : Facts On File, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series [Facts on File library of American history]
Facts on File library of American history.
Contents 2021 post-election insurrection -- Acceptance addresses -- accountability -- Acheson, Dean -- Adams, Abigail -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adams, Sherman -- Administrative presidency -- Administrative Procedure Act (APA) -- Administrative reforms of the presidency -- advice and consent -- Affordable Care Act -- African Americans and the presidency -- Agency for International Development (AID) -- Agenda and the presidency -- Agnew, Spiro -- Agriculture policy -- Air Force One -- Alien and Sedition Acts -- Alliance for Progress -- American presidents and education policy -- Amnesty -- Anderson, John B. -- Andrew Johnson, impeachment of -- announcement speeches -- Anti-Federalists -- Anti-Masonic Party -- Antideficiency Act -- Antitrust policy -- ANZUS Treaty -- Appointment of judges -- Appointment power -- Arms control -- Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961 -- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) -- Arms sales -- Arthur, Charles A. -- Ash Council -- Ashcroft, John -- Atlantic Alliance -- Atlantic Charter -- Atomic bomb -- Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) -- Backgrounds of presidents -- Baker accords -- Baker, Howard -- Baker, James A. -- Baker, Newton -- Bank holiday of 1933 -- Banks of the United States -- Barbary War -- Barkley, Alben -- Bates, Edward -- Bay of Pigs Invasion -- Bell, John -- Berlin Crisis -- Biddle, Francis -- Biden, Joe -- Bill Clinton, impeachment of -- Bipartisanship -- Blaine, James G. -- Blair House -- Boland amendments -- Bonus Army -- Booth, John Wilkes -- Brain trust -- Breckinridge, John C. -- Bretton Woods agreement -- Bricker Amendment -- Brinkmanship -- Brownell, Herbert -- Brownlow Committee -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Buckley v. Valeo -- Budget and Accounting Act -- Bully pulpit -- Bureau of the Budget (BOB) -- Burns, James MacGregor -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, Barbara -- Bush, George H.W. -- Bush, George W. -- Bush v. Gore -- Business policy -- Calhoun, John C. -- Camp David -- Camp David accords -- Camp David negotiations -- Campaign finance -- Campaign pledges -- Campaign strategies -- Carter Doctrine -- Carter, Jimmy -- Carter, Rosalynn -- Case Act -- Cass, Lewis -- Censure -- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) -- Chad -- Character -- character issues and presidential politics -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Checks and balances -- Cheney, Dick -- Chertoff, Michael -- Chief executive -- Chief of staff -- Church Committee -- Civil liberties -- Civil religion -- Civil Rights Act -- Civil rights policy -- Civil service -- Civil War -- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) -- Clark, Ramsey -- Clay, Henry -- Clayton Antitrust Act -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clifford, Clark McAdams -- Clinton, Bill -- Clinton, George (vice president) -- Clinton, Hillary Rodham -- Clinton v. City of New York -- Clinton v. Jones -- Coattails -- Cold War -- Colfax, Schuyler -- Commander in chief -- Compassionate conservative -- Congress and the president -- Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 -- Congressional investigation of the presidency -- Congressional oversight -- Connally amendment -- Constitution and the presidency -- Constitutional amendments -- Constitutional Convention -- Containment -- contempt of Congress -- Continuing resolutions -- Coolidge, Calvin -- Cooper-Church amendment -- Corcoran, Thomas G. -- Corwin, Edward S. -- Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) -- Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) -- Counsel to the President -- Court-packing plan -- Courts and the President -- Covert operations -- Cox, Archibald -- Creation of the presidency -- Crédit Mobilier scandal -- Crisis management -- Cronin, Thomas E. -- Cuban missile crisis -- Curtis, Charles -- Cyber security -- Czolgosz, Leon -- Dallas, George Mifflin -- Dames & Moore v. Regan -- Dark-horse candidate -- Davis, Jefferson -- Dawes, Charles -- Death of a president -- Debs, Eugene V. -- Declaration of war -- Defense policy -- Delegation of legislative power -- Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) -- Democratic Party -- Department of Commerce (DOC) -- Department of Defense -- Department of Education -- Department of Energy (DOE) -- Department of Health and Human Services -- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) -- Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) -- Department of Justice -- Department of Labor -- Department of the Interior -- Department of the Treasury -- Department of Transportation (DOT) -- Department of War -- Deregulation -- Détente -- Diplomacy -- Direct action -- Divided government -- Dollar diplomacy -- Domestic policy -- domestic policy adviser -- Donald Trump and far-right politics -- Donald Trump and the "Deep State" -- Donald Trump and "Truth Telling" -- Donald Trump, impeachment of -- Douglas, Stephen -- Dred Scott v. Sanford -- Drone policy -- Dukakis, Michael -- Dulles, John Foster -- Eagleton, Thomas F. -- Economic policy -- Economic powers -- Economic Stabilization Act -- Eisenhower Doctrine -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) -- Electoral College -- Electoral reform -- Electronic surveillance -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Embargo Acts -- Emergency Banking Act -- Emergency powers -- Employment Act of 1946 -- Environmental policy -- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- Era of good feelings -- Ethics in Government Act -- Ex parte Milligan -- Executive agreements -- Executive branch -- Executive nominations -- Executive Office of the President (EOP) -- executive orders -- Executive power -- Executive privilege -- Extraordinary renditions -- Fair Deal -- Fair Employment Practices Committee -- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) -- Fairbanks, Charles W. -- Faithful Execution Clause -- farewell addresses -- Farley, James A. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Federal bureaucracy -- Federal Election Commission (FEC) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) -- Federal Register Act of 1935 -- Federal Reserve System -- Federal Trade Commission Act -- Federalism -- Federalist Papers -- Federalist Party -- Female Vice President Nominees -- Ferraro, Geraldine -- Field v. Clark -- Fillmore, Millard -- Films and the presidency -- Fireside chats -- First Hundred Days -- First ladies -- First Lady's Office -- First Year Presidential Job Approval Ratings by Average -- Fiscal policy -- Ford, Betty -- Ford, Gerald -- Foreign affairs -- Foreign aid -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- Foreign Service -- Former presidents -- Forrestal, James -- Four Freedoms -- Fourteen Points -- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) -- Frontloading -- Gadsden Purchase -- Gallatin, Albert -- Gallup Poll Question: Would You Vote for a Female Presidential -- Candidate? -- Garfield, James A. -- Garner, John Nance -- Gay rights and the presidency -- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Gettysburg Address -- gifts to the president -- Goldwater, Barry -- Goldwater v. Carter -- Gonzales, Alberto -- Good neighbor policy -- Gore, Al -- Government Accountability Office (GAO) -- Government corporations -- Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act -- Grant, Ulysses, S. -- Great Depression -- Great Society -- Green Party -- Group of Eight (G8) -- Growth of Divided Government -- Guiteau, Charles Julius -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- Gunboat diplomacy -- Hagerty, James C. -- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld -- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hamlin, Hannibal -- Hampton & Co. v. United States -- Harding, Warren G. -- Harris, Kamala -- Harrison, Benjamin -- Harrison, William Henry -- Hatch Act, 1939 -- Hayes, Rutherford B. -- Health of presidents -- Helvidius-Pacificus Debates -- Hendricks, Thomas A. -- Heroic leadership -- Hidden hand presidency -- High crimes and misdemeanors -- Hobart, Garret A. -- Hollingsworth v. Perry -- Honeymoon period -- Hoover Commissions -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hoover, J. Edgar -- Hoover, Lou -- Hopkins, Harry -- Hotline -- Hull, Cordell -- Human rights -- Humor and the presidency -- Humphrey, Hubert -- Humphrey's Executor v. United States -- Hyde Park -- Hyper-partisanship -- Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha -- Immigration policy -- Impeachment -- Imperial presidency -- Imperialism -- Implied powers -- Impoundment of funds -- In re Neagle -- Inaugural addresses -- Inaugurations -- Independent counsel -- Independent Counsel Law -- Inherent powers -- Inspectors General (IG) -- Institutional presidency -- Intelligence oversight -- Intelligence Oversight Act -- Interest groups and the presidency -- International law -- Intervention -- Iran-contra affair -- Iranian hostage crisis -- Iraq War -- Iron triangles -- Isolationism -- Issue networks -- item veto -- Jackson, Andrew -- Japanese-American internment -- Jaworski, Leon -- Jay, John -- Jay's Treaty -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Johnson, Andrew -- Johnson, Lady Bird -- Johnson, Lyndon B. -- Johnson, Richard Mentor -- Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) -- Kaine, Tim -- Kellogg-Briand Pact -- Kennedy, John F. -- Kennedy, Robert F. -- King, William Rufus de Vane -- Kissinger, Henry -- Kitchen cabinet -- Knox, Philander Chase -- Korean War -- Korematsu v. United States -- La Follette, Robert M. -- labor policy -- Lame duck -- Law enforcement powers -- League of Nations -- legislative leadership -- Legislative veto -- Lend-Lease Act -- Lieberman, Joe -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Lincoln, Mary Todd -- Little v. Barreme -- Locke, John -- Louisiana Purchase -- loyalty-security programs -- Madison, Dolley -- Madison, James -- Major Female Presidential Candidates -- Managerial presidency -- Manhattan Project -- Manifest Destiny -- Marbury v. Madison -- Marque and reprisal
Marshall, George C. -- Marshall, John -- Marshall Plan -- Marshall, Thomas R. -- Martial law -- Mayaguez incident -- McCain, John -- McCarran Internal Security Act -- McCarthy, Eugene -- McCarthy, Joseph -- McCarthyism -- McGovern-Fraser Commission -- McGovern, George -- McKinley, William -- McNamara, Robert -- Media and the presidency -- Meese, Edwin, III -- Merryman, Ex parte 17 F. Cas. 144 -- Middle East -- Midterm elections -- Military tribunals -- Missouri v. Holland -- Mitchell, John N. -- Mondale, Walter -- Monroe Doctrine -- Monroe, James -- Montesquieu, baron de -- Monticello -- Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. -- Morris, Gouverneur -- Morton, Levi Parsons -- Mount Rushmore -- Mount Vernon -- Myers v. United States -- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- National Economic Council (NEC) -- National Emergencies Act -- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) -- National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) -- National security -- National Security Act -- National Security Advisor -- National Security Council (NSC) -- National Security Directives (NSDs) -- National Treasury Employees Union v. Nixon -- Native American policy -- NATO treaty -- Neustadt, Richard M. -- Neutrality Proclamation -- New Deal -- New Freedom -- New Frontier -- New media -- New York Times v. United States -- Nixon Doctrine -- Nixon, Richard -- Nixon v. Administrator of General Services -- Nominating candidates for president -- North Korea -- Nuclear command procedures -- Nuclear weapons policy -- Nullification doctrine -- Oath of office -- Obama, Barack -- Obama Doctrine -- Obama, Michelle -- Obergefell v. Hodges -- Office of Administration -- Office of Emergency Management (OEM) -- Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) -- Office of Homeland Security (OHS) -- Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) -- Office of Intergovernmental Affairs -- Office of Legal Counsel -- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) -- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) -- Office of Policy Development -- Office of Price Administration (OPA) -- Office of Public Liaison -- Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) -- Office of the Attorney General -- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) -- Office of War Mobilization (OWM) -- Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) -- Olmstead v. United States -- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy -- Open door policy -- Oswald, Lee Harvey -- Oval Office -- Palin, Sarah -- Palmer Raids -- Panama Canal treaties -- Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan -- Pardon power -- Parliamentary reforms -- Partisan -- Party conventions -- Patronage -- Pence, Mike -- Pendleton Act -- Pentagon -- Percentage of Public Expressing Approval of President's Performance -- Perkins, Frances -- Persian Gulf War -- Philadelphia Plan -- Pierce, Franklin -- Pocket veto -- Political action committee (PAC) -- Polk, James K. -- Popularity and the presidency -- Postmodern presidency -- Potsdam Conference -- POTUS (President of the United States) -- Powell, Colin -- Prerogative power -- Presentment clause -- Presidency and budgetary process -- Presidency Research Group (PRG) -- President's Intelligence Advisory Board -- Presidential advisers -- Presidential assassinations -- Presidential benefits -- Presidential box scores -- Presidential cabinet -- Presidential commissions -- Presidential debates -- Presidential disability -- Presidential doctrines -- Presidential findings -- Presidential greatness -- Presidential immunity -- Presidential leadership -- Presidential legacies -- Presidential libraries -- Presidential monuments -- Presidential nominating caucuses -- Presidential papers -- Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) -- Presidential pets -- Presidential protocol -- Presidential Records Act (PRA) -- Presidential resignation -- Presidential seal -- Presidential staff -- Presidential succession laws -- Presidential transitions -- Presidential Vetoes -- Presidential retreats -- Presidents and the press -- President's daily briefing (PDB) -- President's Intelligence Oversight Board (PIOB) -- President's title -- Press conference -- Primaries and caucuses -- Prize Cases -- Proclamations -- Progressive Party -- Public papers of the president -- Pullman Strike -- Purchase of Alaska -- Qualifications of the president and vice president -- Quayle, Dan -- Rasul v. Bush -- Rating the president -- Reagan, Ronald -- Receiving and appointing ambassadors -- Recess appointments -- Recognition power -- Reconciliation bills -- Reconstruction -- Reform Party -- Regan v. Wald -- Regulatory policy -- Reid v. Covert -- Religion and the presidency -- Removal power -- Reorganization power -- Republican Party -- Rhetorical presidency -- Rice, Condoleezza -- Richard Nixon, impeachment of -- Richardson, James D. -- Ridge, Tom -- Rockefeller, Nelson A. -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Roosevelt, Theodore -- Rulemaking power -- Rumsfeld, Donald -- Rumsfeld v. Padilla -- Salaries and perquisites -- Sanders, Bernie -- Savings-and-loan scandal -- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States 1549 Schiff, Adam -- Science adviser -- Science policy -- SEATO Pact -- Second impeachment of Donald Trump -- Secret Service -- Seery v. United States -- Senior Executive Service (SES) -- Separation of powers -- September 11, 2001, attacks -- Sequestration during the budget process -- Seward, William H. -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- Sherman, James -- Signing statements -- Situation room -- Social Security -- Solicitor general -- Space policy -- Spanish-American War -- Special prosecutor -- Speechwriters -- Spending power -- Square Deal -- Starr Report -- State Department -- State of the Union addresses -- Statement and account clause -- Stevenson, Adlai (U.N. ambassador) -- Stevenson, Adlai (vice president) -- Stimson, Henry L. -- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) -- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- Succession -- Summit meetings -- Super Tuesday -- Suspension of habeas corpus -- Symbolic presidency -- Taft Commission -- Taft-Hartley Act -- Taft, William Howard -- Taney, Roger B. -- Tariff policy -- Tax policy -- Taylor, Zachary -- Teapot Dome scandal -- Television and the president -- Tennessee Valley Authority Act -- Tenure of Office Act -- Term and tenure of office -- Textbook presidency -- Theories of cabinet formation -- Theories of the presidency -- Third party candidates -- Thomas, Norman -- Tompkins, Daniel D. -- torture -- Tower Commission -- Town meetings and the presidency -- Transition -- Treaty of Versailles -- Treaty power -- Truman Doctrine -- Truman, Harry S. -- Trump administration and cabinet appointments -- Trump administration and China -- Trump administration and domestic policy -- Trump administration and economic policy -- Trump administration and Europe -- Trump administration and executive power -- Trump administration and federal court appointments -- Trump administration and immigration -- Trump administration and Iran -- Trump administration and media relations -- Trump administration and North Korea -- Trump administration and race relations -- Trump administration and Russia -- Trump administration and Supreme Court appointments -- Trump administration and the coronavirus -- Trump administration and the separation of powers -- Trump, Donald -- Trump, Melania -- Twelfth Amendment -- Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Twenty-third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- two presidencies -- Two-term tradition -- Tyler, John -- U-2 incident -- U.S. drug policy -- U.S. housing policy -- U.S. International Trade (Billions of Dollars) -- U.S. invasion of Grenada -- U.S.-Mexican War -- U.S. midterm elections, 2018 -- U.S. monetary policy -- U.S. presidential election, 2020 -- U.S. presidential primary, 2020 -- U.S. trade policy -- Undeclared war -- Unilateral powers -- Unitary executive -- United Nations (UN) -- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- United States v. Belmont -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation -- United States v. Nixon -- United States v. Pink -- United States v. U.S. District Court -- United States v. Windsor -- United We Stand America (UWSA) -- USA PATRIOT Act -- Vacancies Act -- Van Buren, Martin -- Vandenberg Resolution -- veto power -- vice president -- Vietnam War -- voting rights -- Wallace, George -- Wallace, Henry A. -- war messages -- War of 1812 -- War on Terror -- War powers -- War Powers Act -- Warren Commission -- Washington, George -- Watergate scandal -- welfare policy -- The West Wing -- Wheeler, William A. -- Whig Party -- Whig presidency -- Whiskey Rebellion -- Whiskey Ring -- White House -- White House Advance Office -- White House "czars" -- White House-department relations -- White House Office -- White House Office of Communications -- White House Office of Legislative Affairs -- White House Office of Political Affairs -- White House Personnel Authorization Act -- White House photographer -- White House press corps -- White House press secretary -- White House scheduling office -- White House website -- Wiener v. United States -- Wildavsky, Aaron -- Wilson, Edith -- Wilson, Henry -- Wilson, James -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Women and the presidency -- Works Progress Administration (WPA) -- World War I and the presidency -- World War II and the presidency -- XYZ affair -- Yakus v. United States -- Yalta Conference -- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
Summary This reference provides a definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day. Offering a complete account of the presidency in U.S. history, this A-to-Z encyclopedia will make a great first stop for students and general readers looking for information on the executive branch of the American government
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Subject Presidents -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents.
presidents.
Politics and government
Presidents
SUBJECT United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Encyclopedias
encyclopedias.
History
Biographies.
Encyclopedias.
Biographies.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Howard, Alison D., 1970- author.
ISBN 9781438199061
1438199066