1. This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency. 2. Both Mesic and Budisa promised to work to cut back the powers of the imperial presidency Tudjman built for himself and to make Croatia a parliamentary democracy. 3. A reaction against the imperial presidency set in. 4. Few democratic countries have had more imperial presidencies than this one. 5. Hopes soared on Inauguration Day when he and his wife, Rosalynn, walked hand in hand down Pennsylvania Avenue, spurning the trappings of the imperial presidency. 6. In a second tribute, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian and veteran of the Kennedy administration, hailed Mrs. Graham as a dedicated foe of the imperial presidency. 7. It shifts power toward an imperial presidency. 8. It would have expanded the imperial presidency, giving Clinton a stronger hand in federal budget negotiations and elevating backroom legislative blackmail and horse-trading to new levels. 9. Not so, Bill Clinton when Congress offered him an imperial presidency with the Line Item Veto Act. 10. The half century of protracted crisis from Pearl Harbor to the breakup of the Soviet Union came close to institutionalizing the imperial presidency. |