President Talks Research Articles

December Slow Haze Voices

December Slow Haze Voices Long war into darker days, attack dogs on prisoners, water boarding, & sleep deprivation: nothing new. Mostly what upsets are the obituaries, reaching four-thousand. The President talks at us, but does not listen. Families are full with grief, their suffering no form of glory. On the snow, the low sun flickers. The dead soldiers cry out soundlessly. Frozen chimes are frozen chimes.

AMA President Talks Life During COVID, Opioids, and Physician Burnout

AMA President Talks Life During COVID, Opioids, and Physician Burnout

El impacto del terrorismo en el discurso político en España: un análisis de contenido de los discursos de los presidentes de Gobierno en los debates parlamentarios

This research note aims to analyze the determinants of terrorism saliency in elites’ political discourse by means of a content analysis of the Spanish Presidents’ speeches at the investiture sessions and the debates on the general political situation of Spain in the Spanish Parliament. Thus, it is shown the quantitative weight terrorism has had in these speeches. Apart from describing the weight of this issue, the article points out a series of hypotheses regarding changes of the saliency in these speeches and it also tries to check them provisionally. The text first states that ceasefires declared by terrorist gangs have some influence, raising the importance politicians give to this phenomenon. Second, especially relevant attacks also make terrorism grow its presence in political speeches. Third, formal agreements to exclude terrorism from party competition (such as the Ajuria-Enea Pact) have the opposite influence, for they reduce the saliency of this issue. Finally, public opinion matters: The more people consider terrorism as a problem, the more Spanish Presidents talk about it. The note tries to fill a gap in research, because the quantitative analysis of political elites’ discourse about terrorism has been largely neglected. Methodologically, it combines content analysis of political texts, survey data and contextual data regarding ETA’s terrorist attacks and ceasefires.

SOUTH AFRICA: President Talks Up Opportunities

Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical SeriesVolume 55, Issue 10 p. 22311A-22312C Full Issue SOUTH AFRICA: President Talks Up Opportunities First published: 01 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6346.2018.08584.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume55, Issue10December 2018Pages 22311A-22312C RelatedInformation

Getting it ‘write’ first time

Our new President talks to us about writing to-do lists and letters to patients – with absolutely no ‘Surgspeak’!

AAMI president talks goals, challenges, data.

AAMI president talks goals, challenges, data.

“We Combat Veterans Have a Responsibility to Ourselves and Our Families”: Domesticity and the Politics of PTSD in Memoirs of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

On Veterans Day 2009, the PBS newsmagazine Newshour with Jim Lehrer devoted its program to returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' struggles and particularly to what by that point was a widely accepted epidemic of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide. The program featured a profile of Jeremiah Workman, a marine veteran who had won the Navy Cross for his 2005 heroics in Fallujah and had subsequently authored a memoir of his struggles with PTSD and suicidal tendencies, Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption (2009). Workman's chief message was that veterans needed to recognize that was acceptable to seek treatment. Nobody wants to raise their hand, he told reporter Betty Ann Bowser, Nobody-there's such a stigma out there involving PTSD, that nobody wants to be associated with it.1In the segment that followed, former navy psychologist Heidi Squier Kraft, herself the author of the memoir Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital (2007), agreed. Asked how to improve the situation, she replied that it continues to be the stigma . . . the line needs to continue to buy into this and have every level of the chain of command buy into it, that these injuries are just that, injuries, and not disorders.2 Yet her copanelist, former air force psychiatrist and Iraq War opponent Jeffrey Johns, disagreed. the President talks that we will take care of our own, he told the Newshour's Judy Woodruff, we're really shortchanging our troops and not providing them the care that they need. So, this problem is pervasive. It is extensive. And we need to be doing a lot better job to take care of these troops.3Without much commentary, these two segments exposed two prominent positions within a critical debate regarding veterans' mental health care during the second half of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While there was nearly universal agreement that returning soldiers' mental health struggles constituted a legitimate crisis, there was considerable disagreement regarding what had caused earlier failures and what would constitute adequate improvements. Military and Depart- ment of Veterans Affairs officials emphasized a culture that stigmatizes mental illness and that has made veterans reluctant to seek care and sought to validate personality disorder, a diagnosis that attributes postwar mental health struggles to prewar mental maladies. Veterans and their advocates, however, have frequently agreed with Johns's claim, blaming underresourced, unresponsive, and perhaps malicious system; beginning in 2005, they appealed for more responsive treatment in a series of congressional hearings.4 In relating their stories of postwar struggles and requesting assistance, these veterans have often compared their situation to that faced by Vietnam veterans. Continuing a discourse long central to Vietnam veterans' activism and to popular culture about the contemporary veterans have particularly pointed to their failures as partners and parents as evidence of the wars' psychological impact.These issues not only have arisen in congressional hearings and media but also have been significant within representations of veterans' experiences that have emerged in the wars' later years. This essay examines three memoirs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that particularly explore veterans' psychological struggles: Kraft's Rule Number Two and Workman's The Shadow of the Sword, as well as Craig Mullaney's The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (2009). These memoirs, more than other well-received memoirs about the wars, pay significant and explicit attention to veterans' postwar psychological struggles, their causes, and their resolution.5 Moreover, as Workman's and Kraft's Newshour interviews, public appearances, and well-received memoirs make clear, these authors have achieved some cultural capital in the wars' aftermath.6 Roll Call referred to Workman as an extraordinary veteran of this country's most recent war, and the Washington Times termed him an expert on the disorder. …

A forum for collaboration

Cheryl Vidall is keen to work with nurses across all cancer specialties, to avoid duplication of effort, pool resources and expand partnership working. The new UK Oncology Nursing Society president talks to Carol Davis

How to Create a ‘Great Workplace’ on Campus

How to Create a ‘Great Workplace’ on Campus

The Second Face of the Public Presidency: Presidential Polling and the Shift from Policy to Personality Polling

Scholars have tended to define the “public presidency” as facing outward—the president talks and travels to the country. What makes the “public presidency” public, however, is not only its outward oriented activities but also its systematic monitoring of the attitudes of the mass public. This article describes and explains two significant changes over time in the presidential polling of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan based on extensive research in presidential libraries: an increase in the amount of presidential polling, and a shift from polling the public's policy preferences to polling its non‐policy evaluations related to personal image and appeal—a potentially potent basis for appealing to voters. We trace the changing extent and purpose of presidential polling to the evolution of the American political system and its strategic incentives, survey research capability, and political learning. We conclude by suggesting that the development of the public‐talking and the public‐listening dimensions of the presidency pose potentially significant threats to American democracy.

What Presidents Talk about: The Nixon Case

Aside from the much‐analyzed State of the Union addresses and other major speeches, existing research tells us little about which issues presidents emphasize in their public rhetoric, how they do it, why, and with what effects. This article closely analyzes the public rhetoric of Richard Nixon over his entire presidency. The first section catalogs key characteristics of Nixon's rhetoric that confirm central expectations of the modern “public presidency” including the tendency of the “rhetorical presidency” toward oral rather than written formats, the orientation of “going public” by primarily addressing the general public rather than elite audiences, and a “two‐presidency” tilt toward emphasizing foreign over domestic policy. In addition, the article uses the month‐to‐month variations in the amount and content of presidential rhetoric to examine two hypotheses—that presidential rhetoric is a strategic tool that presidents use to affect real‐world events (rhetoric‐driven events) and that rhetoric is cast about by the winds of the world (event‐driven rhetoric). Despite the impression in some presidential studies that presidents are primarily movers of events, our findings offer substantial support for the event‐driven rhetoric hypothesis and only some evidence of the rhetoric‐driven event hypothesis.

From the JCC: GMC president talks on patients' complaints

From the JCC: GMC president talks on patients' complaints

Structurals' president talks of social responsibilities

Structurals' president talks of social responsibilities

House of Delegates Report

It is a pleasure to follow Doctor Askey, both on this program today and into an office which he has dignified by his outstanding service to the medical profession in this most crucial of years. It certainly is a tribute to the greatness of my predecessor that he has so patiently and willingly accepted the tremendous burdens heaped upon his shoulders during his term of office. In another sense, I am delighted to succeed Doctor Askey, for now you won't have to squirm jealously every time the AMA President talks about the climate in his home state. Gentlemen, I can make you only this promise about my coming term of office: you won't hear a word about the North Dakota climate. Seriously, I could not help being moved by Doctor Askey's report to you on his term of office. His observations are those of a shrewd observer who has visited

Plain Talk to College Students

This may be an imaginary address, since it contains the counsel which the writer, who is not a college president, believes that a college president should give to his students. As the chances are that the president would not find time to give this counsel to his students in individual conferences, and since it is the kind of advice and suggestion that should not be confined to the confidences of the closet, the article takes the form of an imaginary address to the whole student body. “Imaginary” in one sense, yes; perhaps even in the sense that very few college presidents ever do talk to their students after this fashion. But in content the address is eminently practical and realistic. It deals with the responsibility of thinking about, and choosing, and preparing for occupations in a far from imaginary world. And not only with vocational matters, but with life values which are inevitably associated with these matters. So here a college president talks to his students as they have a right to be talked to—and as their parents have a right to expect him to do.

A College President Talks

A College President Talks