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DAVID MARSHALL BARRETT
Office:
Personal address:
262 St. Augustine Center
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085
(610) 519-4128
Email: [email protected]
404 Rose Avenue
Havertown, PA 19083
Education
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., 1990
Political Science
University of Essex (England)
M.A., 1985
Political Science
University of Notre Dame
B.A., 1973
American Studies
Books
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy (University Press of
Kansas, September 2005) explores the confidential interactions between heads of the Central
Intelligence Agency and congressional leaders. Since the Constitution gives Congress lawmaking
powers (including the power to fund or not fund executive branch agencies), legislators have long
claimed the power to oversee such bureaucracies. Still, it has been widely believed that Congress
mostly ignored CIA in the years of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower’s presidencies. Based on
research at 25 archives, plus interviews with former officials, my book shows that sometimessubstantial but very uneven oversight occurred, that congressional views periodically affected
Agency activities, and that such oversight was shrouded in almost as much secrecy as CIA’s
operations. No history of CIA and Congress in this era has previously been published. In a prepublication review, Louis Fisher describes the book as “A truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent
into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions. Significantly alters our understanding of the
level of congressional oversight that was performed.”
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection (1997, Texas A&M
University Press), brings together 600 important primary documents from various archives,
originating in the Johnson White House during the Vietnam War. Features an introductory essay,
occasional explanatory notes, and a detailed index. Reviewed in The New York Review of Books
(where Russell Baker called it “a valuable new book”), Foreign Affairs, The London Review of
Books, and elsewhere.
Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers, (University Press of Kansas,
1993; paperback, 1994), explores change over time in Vietnam War advisory interactions in the
Johnson administration. It is based on research conducted at presidential and other archives, and on
interviews with former administration officials. Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, The American
Political Science Review, The American Historical Review, and the Washington Post.
Peer-Reviwed Articles and Other Publications
“How Research in Congressional Archives Allowed me to Salvage a Lost History and Test a
Well-Known Hypothesis,” Extension of Remarks (newsletter of the Legislative Studies Section of
the American Political Science Association), July 2005.
“Sampling CIA’s New Document Retrieval System: McCone Telephone Conversations
During the Six Crises Tempest,” co-authored with Villanova graduate student Raymond Wasko,
Intelligence and National Security, June 2005.
“An Early ‘Year of Intelligence’: CIA and Congress, 1958,” International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Fall 2004.
“Sterilizing A ‘Red Infection’: Congress, the CIA, and Guatemala, 1954," Studies in
Intelligence, Winter-Spring 2001.
“Glimpses of a Hidden History: Sen. Richard Russell, Congress, and Oversight of the CIA,”
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Fall 1998.
“Carl Vinson,” 1200-word biographical essay on a congressional leader who shaped U.S.
defense and intelligence policies from the 1920s through the mid-1960s, The Scribner Encyclopedia
of American Lives (New York: Scribner’s, 1998)
"The National Security Council," co-authored chapter with Villanova graduate student
Christopher Ryan, in book The Executive Office of the President: A Reference History, edited by
Harold Relyea, 1997, Greenwood Press.
"Presidential Foreign Policy," chapter in John Dumbrell's The Making of U. S. Foreign
Policy, 2nd ed., (Manchester, England and New York: University of Manchester Press and St.
Martin's Press, 1997).
"The Senate Judiciary Committee and Supreme Court Nominees: Measuring the Dynamics of
Confirmation Criteria," The Journal of Politics, co-authored with Frank Guliuzza and Daniel Reagan,
August, 1994
"Secrecy and Openness in Lyndon Johnson's White House: Political Style, Pluralism, and the
Presidency," The Review of Politics, Winter 1992.
"Character, Competency, and Constitutionalism: Did the Bork Nomination Represent a
Fundamental Shift in Confirmation Criteria?", co-authored with Frank Guliuzza and Daniel Reagan,
Marquette Law Review, Winter 1992.
"Doing 'Tuesday Lunch' at Lyndon Johnson's White House: New Archival Evidence on
Vietnam Decisionmaking," P. S.: Political Science and Politics, December 1991.
"The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to
Escalate the Vietnam War," Political Science Quarterly, winter 1988-1989 issue; re-published in the
book The United States and the Vietnam War: Significant Scholarly Articles, edited by Walter
Hixson (NY: Garland Publishing, 2000), vol. 3, pp. 17-44.
"Six Who Told Johnson to Get Out of Vietnam," The New York Times Op-Ed page article,
April 12, 1989
"Senator Richard Russell and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution," research note published as
correspondence, Georgia Historical Quarterly, (Fall, 1989)
Book reviews in The American Political Science Review, The Journal of American
History, The Review of Politics, The American Review of Public Administration, The New England
Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, and various newspapers.
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
2003
Villanova University Summer Research and Writing Fellowship.
1998
Writing Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation,
Bellagio, Italy, May.
Dirksen Congressional Center, Research Grant.
1996
Honorable Mention, Lindback Teaching Award, Villanova University.
1995
Finalist, American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship.
Honorable Mention, Lindback Teaching Award, Villanova University. Faculty Summer Research
Grant, Villanova University.
1994
American Political Science Association, Research Support Award; the Dirksen
Congressional Center, Research Grant; Villanova University, Small Summer Research Grant.
1993
Uncertain Warriors one of a select group of books chosen by U.S. Commission on
Military History for inclusion in Volume 15 of Bibliographie Internationale d'Histoire Militaire,
published annually by the International Commission on Military History.
1991
Moody Grant, Lyndon Johnson Foundation, Austin, Texas. (Awarded by an
anonymous committee of University of Texas faculty members.)
Teaching and Research Interests
My chief research interests are the U. S. presidency and Congress in relation to
foreign/defense/intelligence policy. American government was my first field of concentration during
graduate studies, and I have taught courses on the presidency, introductory American politics, the
civil rights movement, and southern politics. Due to my interest in the domestic sources of
American foreign policy, I also was trained in international relations and have taught courses on U.S.
defense and foreign policy, congressional oversight of intelligence agencies, and problems of postCold War international politics.
I am currently researching the nature and evolution of congressional oversight of intelligence
activities from 1940s through the early 1970s. I do so at various presidential and congressional
archives and am conducting interviews with former policymakers.
Teaching Experience
--Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Villanova University, which I joined in 1990.
Courses taught:
"National Security Policy": Examines the domestic and international political roots of American
foreign/defense policies (1-2 sections every semester).
"The U. S. Presidency" (1-2 sections every year)
"U.S. Foreign Policy"
"Introduction to American Government"
Senior seminars: "Intelligence Oversight by Congress," "Beyond the Cold War," "The U.S.
Presidency and the Vietnam War," and "The Civil Rights Movement and U.S. Government
Institutions".
Graduate seminars: "National Security Policy," “The U.S. Presidency,” “American Presidents and
the Vietnam War."
--Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1989-90.
Participation at Scholarly Conferences (since 1991 only)
2005: Co-teacher, Short Course: “Using Archival Sources in Legislative Research: Choosing the
Road Less Traveled,” Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association (APSA),
Washington, DC.
2003: “Congress, CIA, and Covert Action Against Guatemala, 1954: Addressing the ‘International
Communist Conspiracy’,” presented at the “New Perspectives on the 1954 Coup” conference, U. S.
Department of State, Washington, D. C.
2002: Chair and discussant, annual meeting of International Studies Association (ISA), New
Orleans, on “Diplomacy and Negotiations in U.S. Foreign Relations” panel.
2001: “Congress, the CIA and Covert Action in the Early Cold War Period: ‘Sterilizing the Red
Infection’ in Guatemala, 1954," presented at annual meeting, Society for History of American
Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C.
Chair and discussant on panel, “U. S. Foreign Policy,” Northeastern Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2000: Participant in roundtable in honor of the scholarship of Harry Howe Ransom on the Central
Intelligence Agency, ISA annual meeting, Los Angeles.
1999: “1958: An Early ‘Year of Intelligence’ in CIA-Congressional Relations,” presented at annual
meeting, ISA, Washington, D. C.
1998: “Presidential Selection and Behavior,” discussant, annual meeting of the Southwest Social
Science Association, Corpus Christi, Texas.
1996: "Congress and Foreign Policy Making," discussant; "Institutional and Individual Influences on
the Presidency," chair; both panels at annual meeting, APSA, San Francisco.
"Researching a Black Hole: Senator Richard Russell, Congress, and the CIA in the 'Era of Trust'
(The Truman/Eisenhower/Kennedy Years), presented at two conferences: annual meeting of the ISA,
San Diego, and the annual meeting, Society for Military History (co-sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Intelligence of the CIA), Washington, D.C.
1995: "Researching a Black Hole: Sen. Richard Russell, Congress, and the CIA in the 'Era of Trust'
(pt. 1--the Truman/Eisenhower Era)," annual meeting, APSA, Chicago.
"American Foreign Policy in Transition," discussant, annual meeting, Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago.
1993: "Is the Presidency Still Organized to Fight the Cold War?", roundtable participant, annual
meeting, APSA, Washington.
"The Evolution of the National Security Council, from Truman to Bush," annual meeting, Southwest
Social Science Association, New Orleans.
1992: "The Presidency and World Change, 1992," discussant, annual meeting, Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago.
"A Model for Evaluating 'Process' vs. 'Outcome' in Senate Confirmation Hearings," with co-authors
Frank Guliuzza and Daniel Reagan, annual meeting, Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago.
"Mentors From History: Role Models for Contemporary Presidents," annual meeting, APSA,
Chicago.
"Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Advisory System During the Tet Offensive," presented at
"Remembering Tet, 1968: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the War in Vietnam," Salisbury State
University, Salisbury, Maryland.
1991: "Mentors From History: Presidents' Choices of Distant Predecessors as Role Models," annual
meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia.
"Secrecy and Openness in the Johnson White House: Domestic and Foreign Policy Advisory
Interactions," annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
"Character, Competence, and Constitutionalism: Did the Bork Nomination Represent a Change in
the Senate's Criteria for Assessing Supreme Court Nominees?", presented with collaborators Prof.
Frank Guliuzza and Prof. Daniel Reagan at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association.
University/Community Service
I serve in various ways, including as faculty adviser to the Villanova College Democrats;
member of the Core Curriculum Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences; New Student
Orientation speaker; Political Science Department Grievance Committee and Graduate Committee
member; Arts and Sciences College Mission Effectiveness Committee; presenter at various Falvey
Library public forums; speaker at the Villanova conference, “The Second Term of George W. Bush:
Prospects and Perils” shown live on C-SPAN 2. Various radio, television, and print news media
occasionally interview me on political topics. Similarly, I have spoken at events sponsored by such
groups as the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the National Constitution Center in
Philadelphia, the World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge, and the Penn Forum.
Professional memberships
American Political Science Association; editorial advisory board of International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Professional Service
Peer reviewer of articles and reviewer of books for journals including Intelligence and
National Security, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of American History,
Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Review of Politics.
Other Professional Experience
After two years as a radio news director I was Public Affairs Director for WNIT Public
Television, South Bend, Indiana from 1975 to 1984. There, I produced documentaries, moderated
political debates, and (for six years) hosted and produced a nightly interview program. I occasionally
contributed background information for use by "The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour," and appeared as a
guest interviewer on William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" in January 1984. I conducted occasional
interviews for two syndicated television series produced by Oblate Media, Golden Dome
Productions, and the University of Notre Dame's Institute for International Peace
Studies from 1988 to 1991. They were shown on the Vision cable television network.
In 1984, I was a candidate in the Democratic primary election campaign for the United States
House of Representatives from Indiana's third congressional district.