The President's Legislative Agenda
@article{Pfiffner1988ThePL, title={The President's Legislative Agenda}, author={James P. Pfiffner}, journal={The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science}, year={1988}, volume={499}, pages={22 - 35} }
The president has come to be known as our chief legislator within the past fifty years, with Franklin Roosevelt and his successors taking a much more active role in the legislative process than nineteenth-century presidents took. Despite elaborate efforts and a fully developed congressional liaison capacity in the White House, however, only three presidents have been markedly successful with Congress: Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan. This article examines some of the…
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