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40 Presidential Stud. Q. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/pstlssqty40 and id is 1 raw text is: Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership Guest Editors JOHN FOUSEK Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University DAVID WASSERMAN Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University This issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly presents a collection of papers that examine diverse ethical issues concerning the office of president of the United States. The collection focuses on the role of ethics, character, and virtue in determining what constitutes good presidential leadership and evaluating the performance of individual presidents and presidential candidates. The collection grew out of a symposium organized by the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University and held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on January 30, 2008. The contributors examine, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, such questions as whether a president can be both effective and ethical, whether ethical political leadership is possible or even desirable in a dangerous global environment, and whether effective political leadership requires dirty hands.' 1. The editors of this special issue served as organizers of the January 2008 symposium. All of the participants in that symposium contributed to the thought-provoking conversations from which these papers grew. We are grateful to them for their input into the entire project. In particular, we want to acknowledge four individuals, not represented in these pages, who played singular roles. David Rudenstine first proposed the idea for the symposium and collaborated with us in developing the initial concept. Norman Lamm gave a presentation on political lying and truth telling that he developed into a shorter essay than those included here, which is available online (http://www.yu.edu/ethics). He also lent his august stature within the university and its community to the proceedings. John Patrick Diggins presented a typically provocative talk that we invited him to develop for this collection; his untimely death, however, made that impossible. Fortunately, an abbreviated version of his talk appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education and provides a useful complement to the present collection (Diggins 2008). Fred Greenstein offered a combination of skepticism and support that enriched the symposium and strengthened this special issue immeasurably. Fred generously shared with us his deep knowledge of presidential studies and U.S. political history. He provided sage advice on our editorial task, critical readings of all of the papers, and a model of professional collaboration. John Fousek, program director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, is the author of To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War. He is currently working on a book on Louis Armstrong. David Wasserman is the director of research in the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University and a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He has published widely on ethics and public policy. Presidential Studies Quarterly 40, no. 1 (March) 1 © 2010 Center for the Study of the Presidency

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