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The first major congressional challenge to executive leadership in the Vietnam War, the Cooper-Church amendment, was proposed then.


George Herring

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GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
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