The evolving presidency : addresses, cases, essays, letters, reports, resolutions, transcripts, and other landmark documents, 1787-1998 / Michael Nelson, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nelson, Michael, 1949-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > History > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xiii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Constitution : provisions concerning the presidency (1787)
  • Letters of Cato, nos. 4 and 5 (1787)
  • The Federalist Papers, nos. 69 and 70 (1788)
  • George Washington's first inaugural address (1789)
  • James Madison's defense of the president's removal power (1789)
  • The Pacificus-Helvidius letters (1793)
  • Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address (1801)
  • Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Vermont legislature (1807)
  • The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  • The Tennessee General Assembly's protest against the Caucus System (1823)
  • Andrew Jackson's first message to Congress (1829)
  • Andrew Jackson's veto of the Bank Bill (1832)
  • Abraham Lincoln's letter to Albert G. Hodges (1864)
  • The Gettysburg Address (1863)
  • Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
  • Articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson (1868)
  • Theodore Roosevelt's and William Howard Taft's theories of presidential power (1913, 1916)
  • Woodrow Wilson's first State of the Union address (1913)
  • The Teapot Dome Resolution (1924)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address (1933)
  • Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935)
  • United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing address (1937)
  • Report of the Brownlow Committee (1937)
  • Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v, Sawyer (1952)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower's Little Rock executive order (1957)
  • The first Kennedy-Nixon debate (1960)
  • John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (1961)
  • The Cuban missile crisis : John F. Kennedy's letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (1962)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson's "great society' speech (1964)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin message (1964)
  • Richard Nixon's China trip announcement (1971)
  • The McGovern-Fraser Commission report (1971)
  • The War Powers Resolution (1973)
  • Proposed articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon (1974)
  • United States v. Nixon (1974)
  • The "smoking gun" Watergate tapes (1974)
  • Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon (1974)
  • Jimmy Carter's "crisis of confidence" speech (1979)
  • Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address (1981)
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
  • George Bush's Persian Gulf War address (1991)
  • Bill Clinton's State of the Union address (1998)
  • Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
  • Bill Clinton's "apology" address (1998).