The Virginia Papers on the Presidency

Further discussions on the many-sided role of the president contributed by outstanding public figures. Table of Contents:Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson, Director, Miller Center; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; The President and the Secretary of State (Leadership and Organizing Policymaking), former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; The President and Congress, Senator Hugh Scott; The President and Diplomacy: The Ambassador (The President and the International Setting), Ambassador Hermann F. Elits; The Heritage of an Isolationist Tradition (The President and the Public Philosophy), Professor Louis J. Halle; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.