The End

Papers due tonight 11:50 pm.

Ex-presidents 

Hoover

Truman

Nixon (start at 2:20)

Carter

Takeaways:  

Presidents are products of their predecessors and precedents

• Laws, institutions, policies
• Examples to emulate
• Cautionary tales to avoid

Presidents are products of their time

• Backgrounds shape attitudes
• Americans chose certain kinds at certain times
• Gender
• Race and ethnicity
• Religion
• Education and social class
• Military service
• Other personal qualities

WHO'S NEXT?

Additional Presidential Topics

CANNOT MAKE STUDENT HOUR TODAY (Monday) BUT WILL BE AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM AFTER 3 PM TODAY AND ALL DAY TOMORROW (Tuesday).  EMAIL ME TO SET UP A TIME.

On Wednesday, we will consider one thing we missed:  ex-presidents.  A short easy read: Barbara Bradley Hagerty, "Can an Ex-President Be Happy?" The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2017.

Revisit 2/26 on campaign finance tricks

Economic policy:  chart book

Presidents convene people to reach extralegal solutions

Presidential directives

• Forms of presidential directives
• Obama's "pen and phone"
• Signing statements

The 1974 TV movie The Missiles of October:

• 26:30 deliberations of the ExComm
• 45:00 role of the press secretary

Media and Foreign Influence

• Placing op-eds
• Open, disclosed ads
• Covert buys of social media 
• Influencers
• Payload content: Smart Banana (start around 9:00)
• State-run networks:  RT (epic fail)
• OAN-Sputnik connection

Flattering interviewees (an actual email to yours truly):

Dear John , 

I hope all is well. 

 I would like to introduce myself again. I would  like to introduce myself.  My name is XXX  I’m an international producer for Russian Television -  Channel One  that based in Moscow, Russia. We also have offices in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles.  “Chanel One” is a number one broadcasting company in Russia and also very popular in Russian Community around the world.  We have over 250 million audience in 190 Countries.  Channel One is as big in Russia as CNN and FOX in US.

We have been working on our weekly news show "Sunday times" about Donald Trump's meeting with Putin. Our network's CEO Mr. Ernst asked me to contact you and include you in our show. He really would like to have you as a part of our show. You opinion is very important for Russian audience.
...

You are very well known in Russia. Russian politicians and regular people look up to you as a peer where they watch your interviews and follow you on social media for inspiring messages. It would be such an honor and  pleasure to meet you in person and film an interview with you. 

The most interesting presidential movie you never heard of:  Gabriel Over the White House (1933)