Description

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A collection of the memos that Richard E. Neustadt wrote to presidential candidates, presidents-elect, presidents, and their top aides, beginning with a memo addressed to Sen. John F. Kennedy on September 15, 1960. The 18 memos include Neustadt's advice to Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton.

About the Author

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Charles O. Jones is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, the Hawkins Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin, and a former president of the American Political Science Association. His books include "Clinton and Congress, 1993-96" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999) and "Passages to the Presidency" (Brookings, 1998).