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The Constraining of the President: the Presidency After Watergate

1974; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0007123400009637

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Richard E. Neustadt,

Military History and Strategy

The White House was once – and will be again – a great place for a young man to work. I did it myself and have never been sorry. Fate was kind and my age was right: it was Harry Truman's White House and I worked for Charlie Murphy – Charles S. Murphy, to give him his due. He was the President's Special Counsel, successor to Clark Clifford in that post and one of Truman's senior aides. Working for Murphy and with him for the President was a fine experience, as unlike Egil Krogh's or Gordon Strachan's as day from night. What made it so is illustrated by a story. And this story is a starting point for looking at the presidency now, by light of Watergate.