2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Presidential Dirty Hands
Author : Judith Lichtenberg
Published in: The Values of Presidential Leadership
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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By definition, the president of the United States is a leader. But leadership signifies something apart from the obvious rights and appurtenances accompanying the office. What do we want to know when we ask what presidential leadership is? I do not believe there is a single question we are trying to answer, and I think a variety of confusions lurk in the questions we pose and the answers we offer to them. Here I try to sort out some of the questions, answers, and confusions. I begin with some basic puzzles.