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The Solicitor General And Intragovernmental Conflict, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note considers the way in which the Solicitor General has resolved-and should resolve-such ambiguities in his role as advocate for the United States. First, the Note examines the accommodation of interests represented by the Solicitor General's responses to discordant obligations. Second, it analyzes the common law and statutory sources of the Solicitor General's responsibilities. Finally, the proper role of the Solicitor General is assessed, giving due consideration to his position .as mediator among interest groups within the government and to the institutional constraints to which he is subject.

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The Right And The Power: The Prosecution Of Watergate, Barry D. Halpern

Florida State University Law Review

By Leon Jaworski. New York: Reader's Digest Press; Houston: Gulf Publishing Co. 1976. Pp. 305. $9.95 New York: Pocket Books. Pp. 372. $2.50.

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The Continuing Presidential Dilemma, Thomas Blau

Vanderbilt Law Review

The problems of the Presidency are not new. The transformation has occurred in the evaluation of such behavior and especially in the concept of the proper balance between the Presidency and Congress.Changing personalities in office may account for much of the evolution of the institutional critiques. Organizing the Presidency--much to Stephen Hess's credit--does not participate in the simplistic version of this dialectic. Despite having served on the staffs of two Presidents, he calls for a drastic diminution in the power of the White House staff in favor of its rival, the Cabinet. An effective Presidency, in his view,requires a more …

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