Political Science 3300     
The American Presidency       November 10, 2008

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The President and the Bureaucracy 

2. How have presidents tried to control the bureaucracy?

    The Growing role of vice-presidents

         Richard Cheney

    The President's Bureaucracy: The Executive Office of the President

       The White House Staff

       The Bureau of the Budget / Office of Management and Budget

      The National Security Council

   President Bush's Struggle to Exercise more Control

1. Regulatory Changes

2. Executive Orders

3. Reorganization

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Watergate

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1. The Heroic President and the Limits of Power

2. The Setting: A Regime in Disarray

        Deep Divisions In The Nation, 1968-1969

        The Politics of Preemption

3. The Main Characters:

    Richard Nixon - An "Active-Negative" - assumes the Heroic Presidency

                - A self-reliant manager

    Nixon increasingly depended on loyalists in the White House staff, especially

    The H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman ("The Palace Guard)

4. The Motive: National Security Leaks

        - Spring, 1970: Student demonstrations peak

        - July, 1970:
            Nixon approves the "Huston plan" to expanding domestic spying.

        - June 1971: The New York Times and other papers begin publishing

            The Pentagon Papers (read excerpts) leaked by Daniel Ellsberg

5. The Plumbers Unit

6. The Crime