Anthony James Joes, in Presidential AT^^^ Like Ike Studies Quarterly (Summer 1985), 208 East 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Few Chief Executives have fared so poorly among scholars of the presi- clency as Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61). Only two years after he left office, a poll of historians ranked him 20th in stature among U.S. presi- dents-tied with Chester A. Arthur (1881-85).
But the scholarly rehabilitation of Ike is now under way. Indeed, accorcl- ing to Joes, professor of politics at...
the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal, Eisenhower's low-key emphasis on "seeking consensus behind limited aims" seems more attrac- tive to both scholars and the general public.
Democrats Divided "The New Class in Massachusetts: Politics in a Technocratic Society" bv Philip Davies and John Kenneth white, injournal ofAmerican Studies (Aug. 1985), Cambridge University Press, 32 East 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
America's Democratic Party is a house...
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D1m7ig the 1978 ilfaxsa- chsetts gubernatorial election, many "New Class" Democrats were so c/~senchantedwiththeir
party's unabashedly con- servative candidate, Ed-irard J King, that they 1 voted /<epublican But in 1982, after ~Wic/~ael
Dzika kis (left) beat King in the prm-iaq', these voters swung hack into the Democratic camp
leges and universities, these liberal-minded "New Class" Democrats ac- quired considerable political wei...
tryingto decipher the "intentions" of the First Amendment's authors. The Founding Fathers "could not have fore- seen" the switch from "private, sectarian schools" to a public system cle- signed to educate most of the nation's youth. Nor could they have predicted "the new threats" posed today's "politically involved" evangelists.
Justices and legal scholars have always regarded the language of the First Amendment-which Thomas Jefferson said in 1802...
1983, 72 of the 132 legislators in Madison called politics their only livelihood. All told, Rosenthal estimates that almost "one-third of the na- tion's legislatures are . . . in the hands of full-timers." Only in the less popu- lous states (Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ver-mont, and Wyoming) do "part-time citizens" still occupy most state house and senate seats, and their numbers are declining.
Increasing demands on state legislators' time is one reason...
1968, Moscow could overlook U.S. protests ancl assert itself in Czechoslovakia- or, later, in Afghanistan (1979) and Poland (1981). The decline ofhesican power vis-a-vis the Soviets also meant that the United States would be "tested" more often smaller nations such as Iran and Nicaragua.
American responses to such "tests" have been hamstrung by a lack of domestic consensus on what U.S. interests are ancl how they can best be defended. Furthermore, the trauma of the 1965-1973...
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respectively, war with the Soviet Union remains the Navy's "most clemand- ins, and important contingency"-though it is also the "least likely." They argue that in today's world of limited conflicts ("violent peace") more emphasis should be given to the use of (less expensive, less vulnerable) non-carrier surface ships to gather intelligence, demonstrate support for allies, and provide a U.S. military presence in trouble spots s...
shifting its forces to new outposts. One likely home for new US. bases: Australia. Japan could also contribute to ASEAN's security boosting its foreign aid. Canberra and Tokyo might not go along with such notions, Betts concedes, but that would only mean that they "do not see more reason to bolster the Western position in Asia than Washington does."
What Matters Most? "The Real National Interest" by Alan Tonelson, in Foreign Policy (Winter 1985), 11
Prussia's Frederick the...
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Munnell, in New England Economic Renieu' (~ug.1985), Research Department, ~u~Aica-
Social Secu1-7ty.. tions Section, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 02106.
Since 1980, some Reagan administration officials and some congressmen have suggested taking a New Look at America's social security system. To help reduce the annual federal deficit (now $211.9 billion), they have advocated cutting benefits and clipping into the system's trust funds.
But Miinnell,...
Alicia 13.
Munnell, in New England Economic Renieu' (~ug.1985), Research Department, ~u~Aica-
Social Secu1-7ty.. tions Section, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 02106.
Since 1980, some Reagan administration officials and some congressmen have suggested taking a New Look at America's social security system. To help reduce the annual federal deficit (now $211.9 billion), they have advocated cutting benefits and clipping into the system's trust funds.
But Miinnell,...