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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"White House"”.
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The Role and Function of the White House Office of Communication (1969-1988)
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Deliberate uncertainty : the South Asian Crisis of 1971, the Nixon White House, and the U.S. State Department
This thesis focuses on the events surrounding the South Asia Crisis of 1971, beginning in when the Pakistani government launched its military crack-down in East Pakistan in the spring and extending to the conclusion of the Indo-Pak War by the year's end. It examines how President Nixon's …
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Funny in a Man's World: Women Comedians' Use of Political Satire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
… worlds with their addresses at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This analysis views these addresses through three rhetorical lenses: feminist standpoint theory, rhetorical citizenship, and rhetorical and political agency. This study explores the way women’s issues in society …
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Coordinating science : White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) influence in federal R&D budgets
This thesis examines the role of the White House OSTP in the nation's budgeting for science and technology activities. Interviews conducted by the researcher with members of the White House staff as well as federal agency officials are the primary empirical support, with analysis of annual priority …
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From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 characters : the hyper-mediated election of a paranoid populist president
The improbable election of Donald Trump relied on myriad factors. Among the most important of these, I argue here, was Trump's deft use of the social media site Twitter, which Trump used as a means to both communicate with his supporters directly, and to reach a far wider audience in the mainstream …
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Theory to Practice How Developing a K-12 Curriculum in Emergency Preparedness, Life Safety, or Homeland Security Can Lead to Resiliency
In 2002, The White House issued the National Strategy for Homeland Security. Since then, the federal government has authored several documents from the Department of Homeland Security and The White House relating to a growing recognition of developing a resilient United States. The documents …
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Still imperial? The White House, the Vietnam syndrome and the politics of military intervention in the United States. A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995: A study of presidential deployment decisions: 1982-1995
How has the Vietnam War affected America's response to international conflicts? Have American Presidents been less likely to sanction a US military response to international conflicts in the post-Vietnam era? Has their ability to deploy US forces been weakened in any way by the Vietnam experience? …
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1863 Virginia: A short story
… and enslaved black people; slave-owning and poor white people; and assimilated and resistant native people co-existed. The story follows Indi, a Pamunkey woman, and Abram – a self-liberated and formerly enslaved African man from White House plantation. Due to her tribe's Black Laws, Indi is exiled …
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The Effects of Training on the Accuracy of Teacher Referrals of Gifted Children.
… their talents (CIS, 1970). In 1960, at the White House Conference on Children and Youth, a position paper detailed seven critical issues in education, two of which specifically related to the definition and identification of gifted youth in disadvantaged communities (26, p. 51). In 1970, at …
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U.S. Foreign Policy toward Sino-U.S. Rappraochement in the Early 1970s : A Study of Secrecy in Bureaucratic Politics.
… negotiator. The centralization of power in the White House and the exclusion of the State Department from the direct decision-making process was a 'diplomatic coup. ' Nixon and Kissinger over-emphasized the speed and effectiveness of the transformation in the China policy to counteract the …
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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity
… British rule spurred Jefferson to establish White House protocol which dispensed with the hierarchies of European social practices and instead mirrored republican values of liberty and equality. Analyzing Jefferson’s presidency within a framework of cultural production, reveals that Jefferson …
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A study of the relationship between presidential inaugural addresses, socio-political ideologies and presidential policy
… of what (the President) proposes to do in the White House.” Dr. Claudius O. Johnson, in his book Government in the United States - after reviewing President Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural, wrote that in his address, the President “usually tries to smooth over some of the ill-feeling which …
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Handshakes and Hugs: A Study of the Approaches Used by Local Social Service Agencies to Partner with Faith-Based Organizations in Virginia
"If the [White House faith-based] initiative was going to have an impact on the local community, you had to begin to think of the initiative in local terms." – Brad Yarbrough, Director of the Oklahoma Office of Faith and Community Initiatives Charitable Choice and other faith-based initiatives …
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
… committee hearings, and staff reports, White House documents, as well as various other sources
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Strategies for Success
… for which she set an example during the pre-war White House years. Through an examination of the causes she promoted, the issues and controversies (or lack thereof) which they engendered, the methods she used to attain her goals, and the public response to and image of Eleanor Roosevelt, as …
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Promoting the Idea of Broadcast Deregulation: An Alternative View of the Distribution of Power in the Communications Policy-Making Process
… Commission, Congress, the courts, the White House, and various regulated industries. But they rarely offer any explanation of the mechanisms by which the policy agenda is set and the range of available policy options is defined. The work reported here asks why conventional accounts pay …
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Organization and reorganization as manifestation of public policy: national security emergency management
… of an organization and its leadership with the White House constitute a critical aspect of organizational design; (3) that the task of coordination is a murky one rife with hazards; and (4) that the effectiveness of a reorganization can be undermined by its implementation.
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Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America: Implications For U.S. National Security
… actively following through on the enumerated White House anti-TCO strategy. The threats posed by transnational organized crime are numerous and its effects are global, making the counteraction of TCO activity an important part of national security strategy for the United States and all …
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