Johnson Presidency Research Articles

Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency. By W. Henry Lambright. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 224. $25.00.)

Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency. By W. Henry Lambright. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 224. $25.00.)

Science and the Presidency: Presidential Management of Science and Technology . The Johnson Presidency. W. Henry Lambright. University of Texas Press, Austin, I985. xiv, 224. pp. $25. Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency.

Science and the Presidency: <i>Presidential Management of Science and Technology</i> . The Johnson Presidency. W. Henry Lambright. University of Texas Press, Austin, I985. xiv, 224. pp. $25. Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency.

White House Operations: The Johnson Presidency

White House Operations: The Johnson Presidency

Presidential Management of the Bureaucracy and the Johnson Presidency: A Preliminary Exploration

Drawing upon documentary sources and interviews with administrative officials, this article takes a broad look at presidential management of the bureaucracy during the Johnson presidency. The various managerial techniques used by President Johnson are examined, along with some of the purposes of presidential management. Contrary to the historical stereotype, Johnson was a managerial activist who had a substantial impact on the bureaucracy and “permeated” it by his many actions

Robert A. Divine, editor. &lt;italic&gt;Exploring the Johnson Years&lt;/italic&gt;. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1981. Pp. vii, 280. $25.00. Emmette S. Redford and Marlan Blissett. &lt;italic&gt;Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency&lt;/italic&gt;. (An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981. Pp. x, 277. $21.00.

Journal Article Robert A. Divine, editor. Exploring the Johnson Years. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1981. Pp. vii, 280. $25.00. Emmette S. Redford and Marlan Blissett. Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. (An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981. Pp. x, 277. $21.00. Get access Divine Robert A., editor. Exploring the Johnson Years. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1981. Pp. vii, 280. $25.00. Redford Emmette S. and Blissett Marlan. Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. (An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981. Pp. x, 277. $21.00. Richard F. Haynes Richard F. Haynes Northeast Louisiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 87, Issue 5, December 1982, Pages 1500–1501, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/87.5.1500 Published: 01 December 1982

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. By Emmette S. Redford and Marlan Blissett. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. x + 277. $21.00)

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Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. By Emmette S. Redford and Marlan Blissett. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. x + 277. $21.00)

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. By Emmette S. Redford and Marlan Blissett. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. x + 277. $21.00)

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency

Presidential Press-Conference Schedules: Who Hides, and When?

Variations in approaches to key routines reveal important differences both between presidents and in the evolution of the modern presidency. As Hugh Heclo correctly observes, crisis events have received a disproportionate amount of attention by presidential scholars.' For Richard Neustadt, schedules take on a specific importance as one of the traditional constraints on presidents-and a constraint that was substantially reduced in the 1960s.2 A president and his staff feeling unconstrained by any necessity for fixed schedules can rather easily, as in the Johnson presidency, fall in to a chicken little syndrome in which frenzied White House activities replace more structured routines. Important questions can be asked regarding the scheduling of press conferences as one aspect of presidential routines. Do some presidents tend more than others to hide from press conferences during difficult situations, such as a Cuban missile crisis or urban riots? Do all presidents, or some more than others, seek to avoid interaction with the press as their popularity undergoes a major slide in the polls? Have some presidents simply stuck to their schedules regardless of events? Historically, has the creation of press conferences as primarily televised events altered their regularity in use? Both individual