Presidential Remarks Research Articles

The US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: An empirical analysis of stimulus response theory: 2009–2020

Objectives: The study presented an empirical analysis of the impact of US foreign policy toward Iran on Iran’s foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia during the Obama and Trump presidencies. It argues that Iran’s foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia is one way of getting back at the US, considering it a key ally. Method: It adopted an action-reaction model to test various hypotheses on the proposed relationships, using American and Iranian presidential remarks utilizing stimulus-response theory to test the relationships. Results: The study showed a set of correlations between certain US behavior toward Iran and Iran’s foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia, based on the monthly and annual data. Conclusion: It concluded that Iran’s action toward Saudi Arabia appeared to be a reaction to the US strategies toward Iran.

ATHE 2021 Presidential Remarks

ATHE 2021 Presidential Remarks Chase Bringardner (bio) I join you all today from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, built on the unceded Indigenous homelands and resources of the Muscogee/Creek people, the past, present, and future caretakers of this land. I would like to start my remarks today with some expressions of gratitude. Thank you to all the outgoing members of the Governing Council, as well as to all of those Focus Group Representatives, Conference Planners, Members at Large, graduate student representatives, and others who so graciously volunteered their time and energies in service to their Focus Groups, ATHE, and the larger fields of theatre and performance. Your willingness to serve in these particularly challenging times speaks not only to your graciousness of spirit, but also to your commitment to the various fields we traverse. I also want to thank our Executive Director, Aimee Zygmonski, for all her labor. She, along with Devon Binder and Sean Franklin Sewell, worked diligently over the last year to transition a second conference in a row to a fully digital platform. I am grateful for Aimee’s passion and commitment to the organization and her care and integrity in helping to realize its work. I also want to thank Vice President for Conference 2021 Ann Haugo and her entire committee. This conference has been a stirring success, with 298 individual sessions on the virtual schedule—the most ever for an ATHE conference. The breadth and depth of programing speaks to the attention and thoughtfulness that Ann and her committeem as well as the Focus Group Representatives and Conference Planners, put into the entire proceedings. Their conscientious curation is evidenced in the vibrant, engaged discussions and roundtables, perceptive paper presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations and readings, the active, vital plenaries, the thoughtful and energizing keynote, and the urgent, challenging performances. Finally, I want to thank outgoing president Josh Abrams. His steady leadership through the seemingly constant pivots allowed ATHE to persevere, as other organizations struggled with financial solvency. His thoughtfulness, attention to detail, and global perspective enriched the organization and will continue to influence ATHE for years to come. So again, Thank You to everyone for all of your efforts. And for those new and continuing leaders, I look forward to collaborating with you. As an organization that operates almost entirely on volunteer labor, we must never take that labor for granted, and must always work to create and sustain practices that honor those efforts. When I found out that I had the privilege of serving ATHE as president, I did not imagine that I would make my first real remarks from a chair at a table in my office. I believed I would be addressing you all from a hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas—the very city where as a very green graduate student at UT Austin, fresh out of undergrad, I first heard about ATHE. [End Page 1] I had the extreme privilege of arriving at the university in the same year that Jill Dolan arrived and established the Performance as Public Practice Program alongside Oscar Brockett, Charlotte Canning, Ann Daley, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lynn Miller, and Stacy Wolf. I found my way to UT Austin at the insistence of my undergraduate mentor (and former ATHE Vice President, Advocacy) Ann Marie Costa. I vividly remember Jill, a former president of ATHE, speaking of the importance of attending, sharing research, and engaging in the important work done by the organization. Excited and eager to participate and inspired by legacies of ATHE leadership I found in my mentors, I pored over the call for papers for the 2001 ATHE conference in San Diego and found a perfect panel seeking participants. I submitted my abstract and promptly didn’t get in. And yet, in that moment, Jill realized the importance of attending, of being in the room, and found a way to piece together some leftover funding, granting me the access that allowed me to attend. From that moment and with that initial access, I have served in a variety of positions and come to appreciate the possibilities inherent in ATHE. None of us could have imagined all that has occurred over the past almost...

Presidential remarks: WCLC 2017, a successful conference with record-breaking attendance and high scientific quality

Keunchil Park, MD, PhD. Keunchil Park is a professor at the Samsung Medical Center at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include thoracic head and neck oncology, early clinical trials and the development of experimental therapeutics.

Live from DC: Saturday Night Live political parody references in presidential rhetoric

ABSTRACTFrom content analyses to effects studies to rhetorical and critical analyses, we have a growing body of scholarship exploring political humor on United States late night television. The growing body of political humor scholarship reveals how late night comedy characterizes politics and politicians. What has not yet been explored, however, is how United States' politicians characterize late night television humor. Recognizing Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a unique type of late night television political humor in the USA, this essay turns to SNL mentions in United States' presidential remarks, including mentions by Presidents George Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton. Directions for future scholarship in this area are also proposed.

Presidential Rhetoric and Supreme Court Decisions

Despite the centrality of speeches to the American presidency, no research has specifically investigated the frequency of presidential public commentary about Supreme Court decisions. We do so and also examine why presidents discuss Supreme Court cases in their public comments from the Eisenhower to Obama administrations. Our empirical findings support our theoretical expectations in two primary ways. First, presidents speak most frequently after cases have been decided. Second, the monthly volume of presidential remarks on Court cases is shaped to varying degrees by presidents’ desires to bolster their reelections, policy goals, and historical legacies. By shedding new light on why presidents comment publicly on Supreme Court cases, this research contributes to our understanding of presidential speechmaking, executive–judicial branch interactions, and how norms and institutions shape the behavior of political actors.

Foreign Affairs, Domestic Attention: Explaining American Media Coverage of the European Financial Crisis*

ObjectiveWe explain how economic and political predictors shaped levels of American media coverage of the European financial crisis between 2008 and 2012.MethodsWe link exchange rates, unemployment rates, inflation, trade, protests, votes of no confidence, elections, and U.S. presidential remarks with financial crisis stories produced by The New York Times, the Associated Press, and television newscasts. Error‐correction modeling is utilized to determine whether relationships exist contemporaneously and across future months.ResultsWe find evidence across multiple models that changes in the exchange rate and elections shaped levels of media coverage. We find some evidence that votes of no confidence, protests, change in unemployment, and presidential remarks matter as well.ConclusionA combination of economic change, specific political events, and broader newsworthiness norms journalists utilize in determining which stories are worthy of attention drove American coverage of the European financial crisis.

Appreciative Inquiry Survey: Discovery and Dreams of Past Chapter Presidents

Dr. David Cooperrider, the founder of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology, was the keynote speaker at the Organization of Nurse Leaders of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (ONL of MA & RI, formerly the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives [MONE]) annual meeting in June 2014. This ONL organization has an affiliation agreement with the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). I was being inducted there as the incoming president of ONL of MA & RI. Back in the late 1990s, I had an opportunity to take a certification course in AI from Dr. Cooperrider and have been using this methodology in my nursing career for over a decade in various settings. Several months before this annual meeting, I decided to use the AI framework to conduct an informal survey of the past presidents of ONL/MONE to inform my presidential remarks. Dr. David Cooperrider, the founder of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology, was the keynote speaker at the Organization of Nurse Leaders of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (ONL of MA & RI, formerly the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives [MONE]) annual meeting in June 2014. This ONL organization has an affiliation agreement with the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). I was being inducted there as the incoming president of ONL of MA & RI. Back in the late 1990s, I had an opportunity to take a certification course in AI from Dr. Cooperrider and have been using this methodology in my nursing career for over a decade in various settings. Several months before this annual meeting, I decided to use the AI framework to conduct an informal survey of the past presidents of ONL/MONE to inform my presidential remarks.

A Society in Transition: Presidential Remarks at the 65th Annual SSO Cancer Symposium

I would like to express to the membership of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) how deeply honored I have been to serve as your 65th president. This was an undeserved and unexpected privilege. Our specialty is at an inflection point in history occasioned by the unanimous approval of subspecialty board certification by the American Board of Surgery. The 21st century is an exciting time to be a surgical oncologist, with our deeper understanding of cancer biology and a continuous pipeline of molecules that target oncogenes and signaling pathways, and enhance antitumor immunity.

The Library and Information Economy in Turkmenistan

A report on the current national, university, and school libraries situation in Turkmenistan, covering the social, political, economic, and technological constraints in the development of its information economy. This account includes details of the 2000 national information policy law and the off-the-cuff Presidential remarks of April 2005 as well as several recommendations for improving the state of affairs.

Dr. Hirshbein Replies

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Letter to the EditorFull AccessDr. Hirshbein RepliesLAURA D. HIRSHBEIN, M.D., Ph.D., LAURA D. HIRSHBEINSearch for more papers by this author, M.D., Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Mich.Published Online:1 Sep 2005https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.9.1759AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail To the Editor: Dr. Geller criticizes my article for failing to take appropriate notice of the history produced by psychiatrists, particularly Walter Barton and Dr. Geller himself. First, Dr. Geller complains that I did not use Walter Barton’s history of APA in my article. Although it is true that I did not employ Barton’s framework for my historical analysis (for reasons I will explain below), I did, in fact, cite Barton’s history in my article (reference 175). Second, Dr. Geller points out that I did not cite his 1994 article that explored the themes of the APA presidential addresses. I appreciate Dr. Geller calling my attention to his article, but I disagree with his implication that his article and my article went about the same task in different ways (his was organized by themes, while mine was organized by time periods). There is more of a difference than just organization between our articles; we were actually engaged in very different projects with very different ideas about what it means to study history. Dr. Geller focused his article on common themes as they recurred in the APA presidential addresses, while my article analyzed change over time in how history was used to reflect shifting professional concerns within psychiatry.Dr. Geller’s criticisms in part seem to reflect the dissatisfaction of an author who has written on a similar topic and wants his contribution to be recognized. But on another level, Dr. Geller’s criticism of my work—in particular, his complaint that I did not adequately work within the framework provided by past psychiatrists who have studied history—echoes an old and familiar argument within the history of the medical community (a community comprising both professional historians and physicians) about who owns the history of medicine. Physicians have long claimed that they are the only ones with the necessary expertise to describe the history of their discipline, while historians have countered by pointing out that physician-authored histories tend to be overly internalist (that is, centered only on activities of the profession to the exclusion of the social, political, or cultural contexts of professional activities).As both a psychiatrist and a professional historian, I attempted to sidestep this particular issue in this article by analyzing the ways in which the APA presidents’ use of history changed over time. Although Barton delineated how he thought the history of the association should be framed, what I showed is that psychiatrists over time have used history in a variety of different ways. Furthermore, psychiatrists (in common with other professionals) have selected the parts of their history that fit within their professional interests at the time that they were writing the history. Dr. Geller’s article, in fact, is a good example of this. Dr. Geller assembled the APA presidential remarks in six thematic areas—areas that he self-consciously chose because they were relevant to contemporary psychiatry.One of the most exciting things about the APA presidential addresses is that they are tremendously rich sources for a variety of possible historical analyses. What I did in my article was not to attempt to use the addresses to describe the history of APA but rather to explore the many ways in which the histories of APA have changed over time. I certainly did not intend to offend anyone who has written on the history of American psychiatry. Instead, what I hoped to do with my article was to join other discussions on the ways in which histories of psychiatry (not just the subjects of history) change over time (1).Reference1. Micale MS, Porter R (eds): Discovering the History of Psychiatry. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 162Issue 9 September 2005Pages 1759-1759 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 September 2005 Published in print 1 September 2005

Presidential Rhetoric and the Economy

Does the relative optimism of presidential remarks on the economy affect U.S. economic performance? We theorize that the relative optimism of presidential remarks should affect economic performance by altering consumer perceptions of the economic news and consumer sentiment, which in turn affect the risks consumers are willing to take in spending decisions. We measure the relative optimism of presidential remarks on the economy through content analysis of all public statements on the general economy and unemployment from January 1978 through April 2002. Controlling for current and past economic performance, we use vector autoregression analysis to show that presidential remarks significantly affect people's perceptions of the economic news, as well as their confidence about current and future economic conditions. Using simulation analyses, we also demonstrate that presidential rhetoric operating through these indirect channels can have substantial impacts on U.S. economic growth and unemployment. The larg...

ASCI Presidential Address: Mentoring and teaching clinical investigation.

A man walking along a road comes across three bricklayers. When asked what he is doing, the first bricklayer replies, “I am laying bricks.” When asked the same question, the second bricklayer answers, “I am making my living.” When asked what he is doing, the third bricklayer steps back, looks around, and responds, “I am building a cathedral.” It is my great privilege and pleasure to address the ninety-sixth annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. I will begin with many thanks: to the council members who provide sage advice and a critical eye; to our staff, who provide dedicated direction and a keen sense of corporate memory; to the members of the ASCI in 2001, who felt it appropriate that I serve on the ASCI Council; and to the Presidents who have come before for providing the insights and precepts that have helped shape our Society into an organization of extremely dedicated men and women that continues as the leading advocate for scholarship in medicine. I will also try to follow the advice of the seventeenth-century Catalan philosopher Baltasar Gracian, who stated, “What is good, is doubly so if it be short; and in like manner, what is bad, is less so if there be little of it.” Most recent Presidential Addresses have begun with a palpable angst, prompted by one of the major challenges of ASCI leadership — preparation of the Address itself. Although I cannot speak for others, my apprehension was due to the sense of awe that developed while carrying out the unwritten oath of office requiring each President to read the prior Addresses in the months prior to the annual meeting. The angst of writing the Address comes from considering the accomplishments and panache of the individuals who have previously held the ASCI gavel and used this pulpit to espouse acute wisdom and uncommon insight and to create new professional diagnoses and level outstanding wit — the Clem Finches, Joe Goldsteins, Holly Smiths, Gene Braunwalds, and Don Seldins. We have a distinguished history and an outstanding cause, and I applaud the members of the ASCI. In reading over prior Addresses, I was struck by the many recurring themes that our past presidents chose to highlight: the spirit of science, the imbalance between MD and PhD biomedical researchers, financial support for clinical investigation and the favorable economics of investing in biomedical research, and diversity in the ranks of American academic medicine. But of all the challenges facing us as a Society within our broader society, I am most concerned about our ability to mentor and teach our learners, and am frequently reminded of the pure joy that endeavor can bring to the physician-scientist. Rather than being intimidated by the prospect of having my remarks compared to those of Presidents past — such as Joe Goldstein’s insightful 1986 talk formulating the malady of insufficient technical training and consequent lack of courage in junior faculty which I paraphrased to a group of junior faculty members just last week, or Tom Stossel’s witty and wise apocalyptic fable in 1987’s Brave New Medicine, or Ed Benz’s 1992 celebratory Presidential remarks — I relish the chance to convince you that perhaps our greatest challenge as advocates for the physician-scientist is the issue of teaching. We must teach, teach often, and teach widely. We must teach medical students the rewards of marrying scientific inquiry and clinical medicine; we must teach residents that the singular discovery of new knowledge can sometimes impact tens of thousands of patients; we must nurture our fellows and junior faculty members, providing them the tools of the trade and instilling in them the tremendous excitement that comes from solving the mystery of an idiopathic disorder or bringing effective therapy to patients. And because teaching can impact these constituencies, we must teach the public about the values and processes and power of biomedical science, replacing the fear of things unknown with a renewed enthusiasm for the reward and potential made possible by strong support for clinical investigation. To reiterate: it is clear that we must teach, teach often, and teach widely. And we must teach the grand landscape — the larger context of clinical investigation — to demonstrate to each of these groups how the act of asking scientific questions with a clinician’s intuition can build “cathedrals.”

Presidential Rhetoric and Economic Leadership

This article reports descriptive research concerning past presidents’ rhetorical leadership of the economy. Using the PERL logical text language, every presidential remark on the economy, unemployment, inflation, and the federal deficit is extracted from Public Papers of the Presidents from the Truman administration through April 2002. These data are coded for the frequency and relative optimism of presidential remarks on the economy. Statistical analysis shows that through time presidents have increasingly discussed the economy, and in more optimistic tones. Additionally, after controlling for actual economic performance and election year effects, some presidents spoke more often and more optimistically about the economy than others. The study also reports case studies of the president's economic rhetoric during the Carter, Reagan, and Clinton administrations that illustrate the nature of presidential rhetoric during economic crises.

Gone Public

Since the publication of Samuel Kernell’s Going Public in 1986, many political scientists have accepted the theory of going public; yet, few scholars have tested the effectiveness of this presidential strategy. This article provides the first large-scale quantitative test of going public to determine whether this strategy increases the president’s probability of success in the legislative arena. In particular, this study is based on a content analysis of thousands of presidential remarks from the PublicPapers of the Presidentsfor the years 1977-1992regarding 186 significant pieces of legislation. Based on this analysis, going public is a successful legislative strategy for presidential initiatives and other bills supported by the president.

Source Material: The White House and the Press: News Organizations as a Presidential Resource and as a Source of Pressure

When a president comes into office today, he needs to have a communications operation in place ready to handle the queries of reporters and to take advantage of the enormous number of opportunities now present for a chief executive to speak to his various audiences, including those outside the United States. It is not a matter of choice for a president and his team. Looking at some facts and figures relating to the presence of reporters in the White House and recent patterns of public presidential remarks, one can understand the need a president has for an effective communications operation to manage his relations with the news organizations that carry his words to the public. This article explores the number of opportunities a president currently has to communicate with the public through his addresses and remarks and in his responses to queries from reporters. It does not assess how successful presidents have been in using the opportunities. It serves as a complement to the article in the June issue of the journal, Communications Operations in the White House of President George W. Bush: Making News on His Terms. That article describes a well‐functioning communications operation, and this piece focuses on why a president operating in today's environment needs to have such an organization to identify and to take advantage of existing opportunities to get to the public.

The President said

This paper is a review of and a commentary on the published addresses of WSSA presidents from the founding of the Society through 2000. The paper's assumptions are that the presidential remarks will reveal what the Society has emphasized, what its major concerns and goals have been, and how the presidents have addressed what they considered to be important issues. Seven issues have been addressed by many presidents. These include the importance of agricultural production and profit, the necessity of herbicides, weed science and the environment, the regulation of herbicides, the need for education, comparison of weed science and other plant protection disciplines, and the problem of herbicide resistance.

2000 Presidential Address: What Matters Most

In the process of preparing this talk, I gained a new appreciation for Samuel Johnson's observation There is nothing that focuses the mind like being hanged in a I want to express appreciation to my dear friends and colleagues Kim Cameron and Bob Quinn for helping me understand yesterday at breakfast why this podium has appeared so gallows-like in my mind for much longer than a fortnight. With their wise, gentle, but persistent probing, they pulled from me an admission of fear. The prospect of speaking to my colleagues was not intimidating, but the unresolved tension within me between what I wanted to say and what I was terrified of expressing had a death grip on my thinking and my feelings. Although I had already prepared several different presidential messages, Kim and Bob helped me understand that I was using the pretense of crafting a better expression from my head as an excuse for ignoring what I wanted to say from my heart. My association with Kim and Bob has spanned three decades. As master's students in the sociology department at Brigham Young University, we shared a common teaching assistantship. Our supervising professor had an owl-like visage that seemed highly appropriate for a man of profound wisdom. At the beginning of the semester, it was our lot as TAs to handle the myriad complaints from students about the professor's teaching objectives. see, as we had learned from others in the department, there was a high negative correlation between the age of this particular professor and the amount of canonized sociological content he taught in his courses. By the time we came on the scene, he was near retirement and much more interested in sharing with his students sound, enduring principles for creating effective relationships-within families, formal organizations, and even communities-than in teaching them the reigning sociological pronouncements on these matters. My response to the disgruntled students was something like this: You must decide how important it is to you to learn the content of this course as it was described in the catalogue. If you need this information so you can be prepared for upper division classes or graduate school, then I suggest you switch to another section of the course. However, if you are willing to release your professor from his obligation to teach you the discipline of sociology and, instead, allow him to teach you what he believes matters most, this class could change your Today I would like to make a similar request: that you release me from the obligation of speaking to you as your president so that I can share with you some of the things that have changed my life. To begin, I wish to acknowledge that Kim and Bob have been a large part of not only what I have to say today but what I have said in academic settings for the past thirty years. But more important, they account for an even larger part of who I am today as a person. Indeed, I wish to use our thirty-year relationship as a model for the kind of associations among professionals that I hope become more common within this professional association. Members who attended the 1998 Academy of Management meeting in San Diego may recognize this as the theme I selected as program chair. In my introduction of the theme in the conference program notes, I referred to a conversation I had with Lou Pondy, my mentor at the University of Illinois. After reflecting on my complaint that no matter what teaching method I used I was not succeeding as a teacher, he said, You will warrant the title 'professor' when you discover what you are willing to profess. Building on the notion that this provocative advice to a young professor seems equally appropriate for a young profession, I continued, What matters most is that we come together to discover what we are willing to profess. I view my presidential remarks as a personal response to the charge I issued to the Academy as program chair, as well as a tribute to my deceased mentor, Lou, who gently prodded me to speak from my heart.

Economic Development: Pakistan's Policy Choices for the 21st Century (Presidential Remarks)

It is an honour for me as President of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists to welcome you to the 14th Annual General Meeting and Conference of th~ Society. As we prepare to enter the new millennium, we find ourselves at a crucial moment in history. It is time to take stock of our past achievements and to assess the new challenges. To deal with the future would require not only thorough knowledge of the evolving nature of development thinking but also a good sense of the policy choices available to a country in its national, international and regional position. What are the main challenges that require our urgent attention? A few words are in order at the very outset about Pakistan's current difficult economic situation. The slow-down in export expansion, capital inflows and foreign direct investment was an expected consequence of the imposition of sanctions. The pessimistic assessment of Pakistan's prospects is based largely on the recent negative trends of these economic parameters. The optimists are of the view that Pakistan has survived the imposition of sanctions rather well. Economic growth has remained positive and inflation has been kept under reasonable control. The optimists further maintain that Pakistan's current economic situation is no worse than that of the East Asian countries when. they started their economic climb and engineered major institutional and policy changes. Lessons from the initial years of the East Asian miracle clearly show that development is decidedly possible no matter what adverse initial conditions obtain in any developing country. Sustained, rapid and equitable growth is possible through the implementation of wide-ranging social and economic reforms. Lessons from'the recentEast Asian Crises are also before us-guiding us on what not to do and how best to protect ourselves in these rapidly changing times.

Pakistan’s Development: Successes, Failures, and Future Tasks (Presidential Remarks)

It is an honour for me as President of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists to welcome you to the 13th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Society. I consider it a great privilege to do so as this Meeting coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the state of Pakistan, a state which emerged on the map of the postwar world as a result of the Muslim freedom movement in the Indian Subcontinent. Fifty years to the date, we have been jubilant about it, and both as citizens of Pakistan and professionals in the social sciences we have also been thoughtful about it. We are trying to see what development has meant in Pakistan in the past half century. As there are so many dimensions that the subject has now come to have since its rather simplistic beginnings, we thought the Golden Jubilee of Pakistan to be an appropriate occasion for such stock-taking.

Presidential Remarks: South Central Modern Language Association Convention November 11, 1994, New Orleans

One always wonders what to say in this traditional address by the President of SCMLA when the members, who are already weary of speeches, would rather not have their meal garnished with some stale pontifications. Which is more important, tradition or apple pie? The Executive Committee of SCMLA last year voted to do away with the tradition of reading resolutions at the annual meeting. The presidential address remains on the agenda, however; and this is it.