Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...becomes highly dangerous if pursued to its logical end. Had Harry Truman chosen to apply the Nixon principle in Korea, for example, there would have been no reason for the U.S. to hold back from bombing or even invading Communist China in order to protect American troops from the attacking Chinese. To follow the argument further to its admittedly absurd conclusion, why not attack Russia and China, suppliers of the weapons and ammunition that kill U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam? Or invade North Viet Nam, provider of the men who use those weapons? The point is not that the President...
...powers of the presidency. Many scholars contend that the Commander in Chief was never meant to have so broad a charter. The drafters of the Constitution gave the President that title to ensure civilian control over the military, and to allow him to respond immediately to a sudden, direct attack upon the U.S. Any protracted conflict was to be authorized by a congressional declaration...
Lyndon Johnson never sought a declaration of war against North Viet Nam, possibly because to do so might have provoked Peking and Moscow to respond in kind against South Viet Nam. Instead, after what was widely publicized as an attack on two U.S. destroyers by a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats in 1964, he sought and got from Congress the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which gave him carte blanche to use U.S. forces however he chose in Viet Nam. The Senate voted two weeks ago to repeal the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but the Nixon Administration had never relied...
...Kent State in Ohio, and Augusta, Ga., where students and blacks were slain, to match the flag-bearing runners heading to Washington from Philadelphia, Valley Forge and Williamsburg, Va., as part of the celebration. From the Rev. Douglas Moore, leader of Washington's Black United Front, came an attack on the rally as a "white racist carrousel of bawdy jingoism...
...came under attack from Faculty liberals several times, particularly after a letter stolen from his files was published in the Old Mole during the spring 1969 strike. The confidential letter from Ford to President Pusey criticized the Faculty's vote on ROTC as hasty and ill-conceived...