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.