Vice President Bush Asks Cancer Panel to Study Drug Regulation

doi:10.1093/jnci/80.11.794

Part II History: Fact and Fiction, 6 Presidential Inability Since 1967

Unable ◽

10.1093/law/9780190083199.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kalt Brian C

Keyword(s):

Vice President ◽

Fifth Amendment ◽

President Bush

Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment has never been used, though it should have been used when President Reagan was shot and nearly killed in 1981. He was unconscious for hours and incapacitated for days, but his administration decided not to transfer power to Vice President Bush. Several years later, Reagan’s staff considered Section 4 more seriously, due to concerns about the President’s performance. They decided against it. Reagan did, however, invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s less exciting Section 3 prior to a planned surgery, setting a precedent followed by President George W. Bush on two occasions.

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Partial Détente

Labor Under Fire ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632988.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy J. Minchin

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

Bush Administration ◽

Vice President ◽

Foreign Affairs ◽

Labor Disputes ◽

Moderate Improvement ◽

Working People ◽

President Bush ◽

Positive Light

This chapter examines the AFL-CIO’s history during the presidency of George H.W. Bush (1989-1993). Overall, the Bush era was a moderate improvement for the AFL-CIO, and for American working people. During Reagan’s presidency, vice-president Bush had forged a workable relationship with the AFL-CIO, and the Federation’s leaders viewed him in a more positive light. Bush was not as hostile to labor as Reagan, and – helped by the improved economy – organizing picked up, there were some defensive victories in labor disputes, and the AFL-CIO also found common ground with the Bush administration in foreign affairs. As one AFL-CIO staffer put it, these years were characterized by a partial détente. Ultimately, however, there was no fundamental turnaround in labor’s fortunes.

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Presidential Succession Effects in Voting

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123400006979 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 495-516 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Franco Mattei ◽

Herbert F. Weisberg

Keyword(s):

Presidential Election ◽

Reagan Administration ◽

Presidential Elections ◽

Party Identification ◽

Vice President ◽

General Election ◽

Retrospective Voting ◽

Indirect Impact ◽

Presidential Succession ◽

President Bush

Attitudes towards a departing administration can help shape attitudes towards candidates, especially when the incumbent vice-president is one of the candidates. This succession effect was apparent in the 1988 presidential election, when Vice-President Bush benefited from the enduring popularity of retiring President Reagan. This article develops a model in which succession effects, the net candidate score and party identification affect the general election vote. Analysis shows that this effect remains when controls are instituted for retrospective voting more generally. Attitudes towards Reagan also had an indirect impact by affecting the net Bush-Dukakis candidate score; altogether the estimated impact of the Reagan effect in 1988 was to turn the vice-president's predicted loss into his observed victory. Additionally, a succession effect was detected in the 1988 nominating campaign, with Bush's popularity over Dole benefiting from reactions to the Reagan administration. There is evidence of succession effects in other presidential elections, particularly a Johnson effect in 1968.

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PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS

RBM A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage ◽

10.5860/rbm.3.2.209 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 95-103

Author(s):

John Brademas

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Task Force ◽

Vice President ◽

Executive Order ◽

General Accounting Office ◽

President Bush

Allow me to observe that the Executive Order of President Bush of November 1, 2001, blocking access to the records of Presidents Reagan and the first President Bush, in circumvention of the requirements of the Presidential Records Act of 1978; the dispute concerning the papers of Mayor Giuliani of New York; the suit by the General Accounting Office against Vice President Cheney because of his refusal to provide names of the persons who took part in his secret Energy Task Force meetings; and the controversy over the decision by Governor Bush of Texas to send his records as governor not . . .

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