Congress vs. the bureaucracy
Subtitle: muzzling agency public relations
By: Mordecai Lee
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780806142036
Subjects: Government publicity; Executive-legislative relations; Legislative oversight; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : beginnings of agency public relations; title: Beginnings of the congressional reaction; title: Terminating the Panama Canal Commission's press agent, 1905; title: Banning Forest Service press activities, 1908; title: Investigating press offices in two agencies, 1910-1914; title: Banning employment of publicity experts, 1913-2004; title: Criminalizing agency lobbying, 1919-2002; title: Limiting machines-not men, 1920; title: Limiting public relations one agency at a time : attack of the conservative coalition, 1935-1950; title: Banning spending on publicity and propaganda, April 1951-2005; title: Banning spending on indirect lobbying, May 1951-1996; title: Defining public relations before cutting it, June 1951-1956; title: Differentiating bad PR from good PR; title: Balancing Congressional and bureaucratic interests : a sisyphean struggle.