@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt1262nk.7,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1262nk.7},
 abstract = {Of all the problems that have plagued the early months of new presidencies, perhaps none are more persistent or potentially more dangerous than those that arise from commitments made or implied during the presidential campaign. From Eisenhower’s campaign pledge to roll back Soviet gains in Eastern Europe through Clinton’s promise to lift the ban on gays in the military and George W. Bush’s denunciation of nation building, campaign rhetoric regularly comes back to complicate the lives of new administrations. Often the consequence of ill-considered promises is limited mainly to political embarrassment and loss of domestic political capital for a new},
 bookauthor = {Kurt M. Campbell and James B. Steinberg},
 booktitle = {Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power},
 pages = {41--61},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {CAMPAIGN TRIALS},
 year = {2008}
}