The Scarlet Thread of Scandal: Morality and the American PresidencyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 22.12.1999 - 224 Seiten Never before have Americans been more concerned about the moral dimensions of presidential leadership. What role should morality play in the decision making of our most powerful elected official? What did the Founders think about the significance of morality in this cherished political institution? Does the private behavior of a president influence his or her ability to lead our nation? In The Scarlet Thread of Scandal, eminent scholar Charles W. Dunn turns a penetrating eye to the history of presidential scandals to answer these and other pressing questions. Scandals are surely nothing new in the White House_ever since the creation of the republic, presidents have made morally questionable judgments, whether constitutional, ethical, legal, or personal. In eloquent and judicious prose, Dunn chronicles the numerous controversies in presidential history, paying particular attention to their impact on the American people and public memory. The Scarlet Thread of Scandal will make all Americans think differently about past, present, and future presidents. |
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... econo— my buoyed President Clinton, raising serious questions about sacrificing the nation's economic health on the altar of impeachment. |DEOLOGY Ideology is a natural spawning ground of questions about. THE SCARLET THREAD OF SCANDAL.
... econo— my buoyed President Clinton, raising serious questions about sacrificing the nation's economic health on the altar of impeachment. |DEOLOGY Ideology is a natural spawning ground of questions about. THE SCARLET THREAD OF SCANDAL.
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... impeach Tyler for not voting with the Whigs, but they lacked grounds for even starting an impeachment committee.Tyler, a slave owner who later served in the Confederate Congress, refused to attack slavery, preferring to stay within the ...
... impeach Tyler for not voting with the Whigs, but they lacked grounds for even starting an impeachment committee.Tyler, a slave owner who later served in the Confederate Congress, refused to attack slavery, preferring to stay within the ...
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... policies, they plotted his impeachment. Johnson, a Ten— nessee Democrat running on the Union Party ticket with Lincoln in 1864, wanted a generous reconstruction policy that limited the military's. 59 ORIGINS OF MORAL CONFLICT.
... policies, they plotted his impeachment. Johnson, a Ten— nessee Democrat running on the Union Party ticket with Lincoln in 1864, wanted a generous reconstruction policy that limited the military's. 59 ORIGINS OF MORAL CONFLICT.
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... impeached Johnson for violating that act, but the Senate failed by one vote to convict him.85 Johnson “remained constant to his beliefs regardless ofthe personal cost to himself.”86 Although he is often considered a mediocre president ...
... impeached Johnson for violating that act, but the Senate failed by one vote to convict him.85 Johnson “remained constant to his beliefs regardless ofthe personal cost to himself.”86 Although he is often considered a mediocre president ...
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... impeachment. Corruption even reached into the president's office: his personal secretary, General Orville E. Babcock, was involved in the Whiskey Ring, which defrauded the government of at least $1.2 mil— lion in excise tax revenue it ...
... impeachment. Corruption even reached into the president's office: his personal secretary, General Orville E. Babcock, was involved in the Whiskey Ring, which defrauded the government of at least $1.2 mil— lion in excise tax revenue it ...
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5 TARNISHING THE GOLDEN AGE 19611975 | 113 |
6 POSTMODERN PRESIDENTIAL MORALITY | 137 |
7 THE SEAMLESS GARMENT OF MORALITY | 165 |
NOTES | 187 |
1 THE SCARLET THREAD OF SCANDAL | 1 |
2 THE MORAL KALEIDOSCOPE | 17 |
3 ORIGINS OF MORAL CONFLICT IN THE MODERN ERA | 41 |
4 PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL IN A GOLDEN AGE 19321960 | 79 |
5 TARNISHING THE GOLDEN AGE 19611975 | 113 |
6 POSTMODERN PRESIDENTIAL MORALITY | 137 |
7 THE SEAMLESS GARMENT OF MORALITY | 165 |
NOTES | 187 |
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