10 years, providing a rich and detailed portrait of the changing tapestry of the contemporary presidency. Dom loved presidential politics, but he was as interested in political institutions and policy processes as he was in the partisan political activity. He understood the interaction of organization, procedure, and politics and strived to help his readers appreciate the operational complexities of the White House and the Executive Office. Presidency watchers naturally gravitated to his

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... h descriptions and analyses which were consistently insightful from an institutional perspective. Dom kept his eye on the presidency even after he left the White House beat to become the Journal's chief political correspondent. He contributed numerous book chapters and articles to presidency literature. He also followed many of us into academia, becoming a professor of journalism at American University. Dom loved teaching and did so until his untimely death. He also took his faculty responsibilities seriously, so seriously that he actually injured himself running to a faculty meeting. How is that for devotion and dedication? A prolific, savvy, and articulate journalist, Dom was always accessible to those of us in the political science community who studied the presidency. He was our friend, and we were his. More than anyone else, it was Dom Bonafede who first turned to political scientists as analytic sources for his articles. He even quoted us in his stories on the presidency well before other journalists did SO. Although he had limited patience with the more esoteric and methodologically challenging parts of our research, he always valued our frameworks, our arguments, and our findings, gently, ever so gently, critiquing our conclusions from his real-world experience. Moreover, he came to our meetings, participated in our panels, and contributed to our dialogue. We shall miss his friendship, his wisdom, and his good humor. But our research will continue to benefit from his insight and his understanding of the institutionalized presidency.