Encyclopedia of the American Presidency
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[New York, N.Y.] : Facts On File, 2021., Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2023.
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Table of 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.
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Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Fourth Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Genovese, M. A., & Howard, A. D. (2021). Encyclopedia of the American Presidency ([Enhanced Credo edition]). Facts On File.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Genovese, Michael A. and Alison D. Howard. 2021. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. Facts On File.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Genovese, Michael A. and Alison D. Howard. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency Facts On File, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Genovese, Michael A.,, and Alison D. Howard. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency [Enhanced Credo edition], Facts On File, 2021.
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