Abstract: What actually happens at a cabinet meeting? We now turn to answering this question with regard to each of the seven presidents we are studying. How often were cabinet meetings held? Who attended them? Was there an agenda? If so, who formulated it and what did it contain? What was, and was not, discussed? How useful did the participants consider them? Was there genuine debate and even disagreement? How formal were the meetings? How did they begin? How long did they last? What did cabinet officers see as the purpose of the meetings? Could they catch the president afterwards? And what about the cabinet councils set up by Presidents Reagan and Bush: were they a useful reform of cabinet operations and how did they affect the workings of the cabinet as a whole?
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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