"Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many high-level cabinet members and advisers played important foreign policy roles i…
Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many high-level cabinet members and advisers played important foreign policy roles in…
The focus of this paper is the re-establishment of executive privilege in the post-Nixon presidency. It looks at the ways that the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have normalized executive privilege, expanded it, and through its us…
Numerous scholars and press critics have asserted that American news coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war was less skeptical than British coverage. This thesis explores the validity of that claim in the television news coverage of one key event: Colin Powell's February 5, 2003…
President Bush encountered a rhetorical problem unique to the late 20th century in attempting to garner support for the conflict in the Gulf: the Cold War had ended. Traditional reflexive definitions that had served America well for the forty years preceding the Gulf conflict co…
41: inside the presidency of George H.W. Bush
41: inside the presidency of George H.W. Bush
The presidency of George H.W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings over Clarence Tho…
Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H.W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious …