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Prologue : beginnings of agency public relations -- Beginnings of the congressional reaction -- Terminating the Panama Canal Commission's press agent, 1905 -- Banning Forest Service press activities, 1908 -- Investigating press offices in two agencies, 1910-1914 -- Banning employment of publicity experts, 1913-2004 -- Criminalizing agency lobbying, 1919-2002 -- Limiting machines-not men, 1920 -- Limiting public relations one agency at a time : attack of the conservative coalition, 1935-1950 -- Banning spending on publicity and propaganda, April 1951-2005 -- Banning spending on indirect lobbying, May 1951-1996 -- Defining public relations before cutting it, June 1951-1956 -- Differentiating bad PR from good PR -- Balancing Congressional and bureaucratic interests : a sisyphean struggle. |
