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• The "hidden hand" and White House roll-call predictions: legislative liaison in the Eisenhower White House, 83d-84th Congresses.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Report)

  - 2007-06-01

  This article offers a fresh perspective into the Eisenhower administration's attempts to predict and influence roll-call outcomes in Congress during the transition from Republican to Democratic control following the midterm elections of 1954. Analysis of archival data uncovered at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, provides insight into a...

  Tags: analysis, Democrat, leader, leadership, legislator, president, Republican, Richard, tax, U.S. Congress, upshot, White House

• Lame-duck Congress waddles to close

  - 2006-12-05

  One of the basic functions of Congress is passing spending bills to fund the operations of government. Congress regularly fails to complete this work in a timely way, but the 109th Congress is set to leave on an especially negligent note. Unless something dramatic changes, it will limp to a...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Iran's Ahmadinejad: crazy or crazy like a fox?

  - 2006-01-01

  Those of us trying to make sense of the Middle East remain perplexed by the recent rise of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the lunatic-like leader with decidedly sociopathic tendencies. Not only will Iran soon develop a deliverable nuclear device, he promises, but the first hit will be Israel. These are...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Iran, Leadership, president, upshot

• Changing Partners?

  - 2005-12-26

  Ambassadors are a cagey bunch. Publicly, they speak in the coded language of diplomacy. But what are the somber suits really thinking? Try this: the new members of the European Union are "rude" and "ungrateful." The bloc's Common Agricultural Policy is "the most stupid, immoral state-subsidized policy in human history,...

  Tags: ambassador, Britain, Brussels, E-mail, Europe, European Parliament, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, upshot

• Changing Partners? Britain hoped to remake Europe in its own image. It has succeeded chiefly in alienating its allies.

  - 2005-12-26

  Byline: William Underhill Ambassadors are a cagey bunch. Publicly, they speak in the coded language of diplomacy. But what are the somber suits really thinking? Try this: the new members of the European Union are "rude" and "ungrateful." The bloc's Common Agricultural Policy...

  Tags: Britain, E-mail, Europe, European Parliament, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, upshot

• Technical skills shortage hurts Pentagon's bottom line.(Defense Watch)

  - 2004-09-01

  The trials and tribulations experienced in various Pentagon big-ticket programs in recent years have prompted a thorough self-examination at the Defense Department. At issue is who really is to blame for failures, delays, cost overruns and an overall dearth of innovation. Defense officials...

  Tags: Government, innovation, Leadership, Pentagon, Strategy, U.S. Department of Defense, upshot