Powersharing: White House-Cabinet Relations in the Modern American Presidency. (book reviews)

Thomas J. Weko, University of Puget Sound

Since its creation, the modern White House Office has intermittently found itself at the center of conflict in U.S. politics, most importantly during the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs of the Nixon and Reagan presidencies. Among the indictments that emerged from these controversies, one of the most common is that the White House Office has tried to establish too much control over too many decisions that principally belong elsewhere, including decisions about the development of public policy proposals. The leaders of executive departments and ...

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