PREFACE TO THE<br > SENTRY EDITION<br > W xNow almost everything about Presidents, I suggest<br > in these pages, but far too little about tile Presidency. That<br > paradox has not changed markedly during the eight years<br > since this book was written -- four years of Lyndon Johnson<br > and almost four of Richard Nixon. We have had a super-<br >~ abundance of information about the man in tile oval office,<br > his wife, daughters, sons-in-law, his daily routine, moods,<br >i entertainments, travels. But we know all too little about the<br > vast gray executive establishment that expands, proliferates,<br > and partially devours the decision-making apparatus of the<br > rest of the government, hehind tile pleasantly deceptive "low<br > profile" of the White House.<br > Perhaps it was not surprising that tile executive office<br > should become bigger and more institutionalized during<br > Johnson s full term in the White House. Liberal Democratic<br > Presidents are expected to he "strong" chief executives; John-<br > son had a huge agenda of domestic and foreign policy goals;<br > and in any event the momentum of tile Roosevelt, Truman,<br > and Kennedy Administrations could be expected to put pres-<br > sure on and dilate the executive bureaucracy. The test would<br > come when a Republican entered the White House with the<br > aim not only of curbing big government ill general but of<br > curtailing the "unbridled executive power" that good Re-<br > publicans are taught from tile cradle to abhor.<br > President Nixon faced and- from a conservative Repub-<br >
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