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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaok0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Preparing to Be President The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt Edited by Charles 0. Jones Shortly after the publication of PresidentialPower-the most influential mod- ern book on the Presidency-in 1960, then-Senator John E Kennedy asked author Richard E. Neustadt to write a series of memos to plan for the transi- tion into office. Neustadt obliged the request and later prepared transition memos for Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Bill Clinton. Preparing to Be President presents the previously unpublished memos of the man Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr., calls our most brilliant commentator on the Presidenc along with new essays by Neustade and volume editor Charles 0. Jones. Neustadt's historically important memos provide new information about the workings of several presidential campaigns and administrations. Neustadt addresses such questions as how to organize a transition team, how to staff the President-elect and then the White House, whether cabinet government has value, and what the roles of the Vice President and first lady should be. In addition to the memos, Preparing to Be President features substantial original scholarship by Neustadt. He reveals for the first time how he came to advise the various Presidents-clect and candidates and the thinking behind the recommendations he made in his memos. He also offers reflections on how the role of the transition adviser has changed over the years and what is relevant for transitions today. Jones contributes to the volume an analysis of the memos and a bibliographical essay looking at the relationship between the Neustadt memos and transition memos that others have written. Preparing to Be President provides interesting historical accounts and critical insights for anyone who wants to understand how a new administration takes shape-and what takes place between Election Day and the inauguration. Richard E. Neustadt is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Emeritus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Charles 0. Jones is the Hawkins Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. American Enterprise Institute $25 POLITICS/GOVERNMENT for Public Policy Research ISBN 084474139-6 1150 Seventeenth Street N.W. 52500 Washington, D.C. 20036 The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. Washington, D.C. 20036 97r84 419

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