An analysis of the president as political leader. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson, Director, White Burkett Miller Center; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; The President as Political Leader, Jack Valenti, former presidential aide and current President of the Motion Picture Association of America; The President and the Political Campaign, Charles McDowell, columnist; The President as Communicator, Thomas Reston, former Assistant Secretary of State; Presidents, Politics and the Public Philosophy, Merrill D. Peterson on Jefferson; Robert A. Rutland on Madison; Norman A. Graebner on Polk; William H. Harbaugh on T. Roosevelt; all University of Virginia historians. Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.