The Watergate scandal of 1973 claimed many casualties, political and otherwise. Along with many personal reputations and careers, President Richard Nixon’s bold attempt to achieve a sweeping reorganiz
Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Utilizing all media including the nascent
"Mordecai Lee provides a lively and authoritative account of an important administrative reform undertaken in the shadow of Watergate. He argues persuasively that Nixon's experiment with super-secreta
With its creation of the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency in 1916, Congress sought to bring the principles of ?scientific management” to the federal government. Although this first staff agency in the execut
One of the US Congress's central efforts to maintain its own power in the face of the rise of the federal bureaucracy has been the attempt to limit the public voice of the bureaucracy, whether said vo
In addition to traditional management tools, government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications. Exa
