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This period recalls the early 1970s between Congress and Nixon and the war in Vietnam. The president pushed presidential war powers as far as he could take it, and Congress is now trying to reassert its power in this war.


Julian Zelizer

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DWIGHT D EISENHOWER This war, as bad as it is, touches a far smaller percentage of the population than Vietnam did.
CHARLES FRANKLIN The public has turned against this war. And when the public turns against the war, Congress reacts t...
JOHN MURTHA It has clearly been a pattern in the past few months of Congress intensifying its efforts of looking...
JULIAN ZELIZER Mr. President [Richard Nixon], I love you, but you're wrong. (on the Vietnam War)
PAUL HARVEY The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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THOMAS SCHIEFFER Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking....
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GERALD NICOSIA The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What...
HENRY KISSINGER The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their rep...
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SCOTT MCCLELLAN Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that w...
DANIEL ELLSBERG The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into t...
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BOB GRAHAM The war needs to end. Hopefully, this represents a surge of energy. The population needs to take its...
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BOB NOVAK Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
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EVAN THOMAS No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
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JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
JULIAN OVENDEN It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS