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Presidential Power and Presidential Character

Presidential Power and Presidential Character PETER JUVILER (New York, U.S.A.) PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER "He'll sit here," Truman would remark (tapping his desk for emphasis), "and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen. Poor Ike-it won't be a bit like the army." 11 Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power Great Powers and No Power Even in the old days when the Communist Party was the "leading and guiding force of Soviet society" and the General Secretary was kingpin within the ruling party, he often said "do this" or "do that," but never had things all this way, save by use of mass terror. How much more difficult things became for the leader, President (and still Communist Party leader) Mikhail Gorbachev, after five years of the "openness" (glasnost') he encouraged. He had placed his bets by then on his new post as President of the USSR Supreme Soviet, May 1989 until March 1990, when he had the USSR Congress of Deputies (out of which the Supreme Soviet is selected) make him President of the USSR. Gorbachev had accumulated immense "powers." But as Richard Neustadt has said, "Powers are no guarantee of power." Gorbachev himself spoke of a "paralysis of power." How was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Presidential Power and Presidential Character

Juviler, Peter
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 16 (1): 245 – Jan 1, 1989
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© 1989 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-1262
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PETER JUVILER (New York, U.S.A.) PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER "He'll sit here," Truman would remark (tapping his desk for emphasis), "and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen. Poor Ike-it won't be a bit like the army." 11 Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power Great Powers and No Power Even in the old days when the Communist Party was the "leading and guiding force of Soviet society" and the General Secretary was kingpin within the ruling party, he often said "do this" or "do that," but never had things all this way, save by use of mass terror. How much more difficult things became for the leader, President (and still Communist Party leader) Mikhail Gorbachev, after five years of the "openness" (glasnost') he encouraged. He had placed his bets by then on his new post as President of the USSR Supreme Soviet, May 1989 until March 1990, when he had the USSR Congress of Deputies (out of which the Supreme Soviet is selected) make him President of the USSR. Gorbachev had accumulated immense "powers." But as Richard Neustadt has said, "Powers are no guarantee of power." Gorbachev himself spoke of a "paralysis of power." How was

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Published: Jan 1, 1989

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