{"id":1931,"date":"2014-12-02T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2020-08-15T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:50:14","slug":"toward-an-imperial-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2014\/12\/02\/toward-an-imperial-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward an Imperial Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House foreign policy decision-making during the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon era took a decided turn toward centralization. \u00a0There had always been occasional tensions between presidents and their diplomats, but George Herring&#8217;s survey\u00a0<em>From Colony to Superpower\u00a0<\/em>demonstrates clearly that\u00a0something intensified during that latter stages of the Cold War. \u00a0Students in History 282 who are interested in the executive decision-making process should read chapters 16-17 carefully and try listening to the audio recordings of the various administrations to discern for themselves what was occurring in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/nsa\/cuba_mis_cri\/audio.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban Missile Crisis (ExComm)<\/a>\u00a0 (October 1962)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitehousetapes.net\/clip\/lyndon-johnson-robert-mcnamara-lbj-and-mcnamara-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LBJ and Robert McNamara on Vietnam<\/a> (March 1964)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/millercenter.org\/presidentialclassroom\/exhibits\/lbj-and-richard-russell-on-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LBJ and Sen. Richard Russell<\/a>\u00a0(May 1964)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB264\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nixon and Kissinger\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House foreign policy decision-making during the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon era took a decided turn toward centralization. \u00a0There had always been occasional tensions between presidents and their diplomats, but George Herring&#8217;s survey\u00a0From Colony to Superpower\u00a0demonstrates clearly that\u00a0something intensified during that latter stages of the Cold War. \u00a0Students in History 282 who are interested in the executive decision-making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}