American Presidential Statecraft

Ronald E. Powaski is an American historian and former lecturer at Cleveland State University, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. John F. Kennedy, the Hawks, the Doves, and  the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.- 3. A “Worm with a Hook:” Lyndon Johnson’s Decision to Escalate U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War, November 1963-July 1965.- 4. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Congress: Ending U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1969-1974.- 5. Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, and Caspar Weinberger: Winding Down the Cold War, 1984-1988.- 6. George W. Bush’s Decision to Invade Iraq, 2001-2003.- 7. Conclusion. The Art of Presidential Statecraft.