Focuses on presidential leadership and foreign relations. TABLE OF Contents:_PREFACE, Kenneth W. Thompson; ^IIntroduction,_ Kenneth W. Thompson; _John F. Kennedy: The Man and the Leader,_ Charles Bartlett; _Richard M. Nixon: A Balance Sheet on his Leadership,_ Maurice Stans; _Cabinet Government: An Alternative for Organizing Policymaking,_ Griffin Bell; _The President as Communicator: John F. Kennedy on Civil Rights,_ Burke Marshall; _European-American Relations and the American Presidency: A German Perspective,_ Cornelius Sommer; _Presidential Transitions and the Handling of Foreign Policy Crises: The Iranian Hostage Crisis from Carter to Reagan; Concluding Observations,_ Kenneth Thompson.