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...North, but he had trouble resisting Ollie's pleading in person. The combination of personal softness and political inexperience is what did him in." The irony, a Navy colleague remarks, is that "he didn't want to go to the NSC in the first place. He wanted to command ships...
...best America will listen with only half an ear, especially when summer ends and the din of the presidential campaign starts to grow. Reagan knows this, but half an ear or even less is better than most recent Presidents have been able to command in their waning days. Time will tell if events permit Reagan to become a pedagogue. He has other pet subjects for discourse, such as the War Powers Act, which gives modern Presidents so many fits, and the two- term limit in office, which saps a Chief Executive's power in his last years...
...framers, determined never to give one man the authority of the European kings of their day to commit the nation to battle, gave Congress sole power to declare war. But they recognized that unity of command was essential, and so made the President Commander in Chief, thus giving him at least potential authority to order troops into situations where war might become inevitable. As early as 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were disputing the division of power. President Jefferson told Congress that without a declaration of war, he could order only defensive action, even against enemy attack. No, said...
...than Jefferson did. Congress has declared war only five times, embroiling the U.S. in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II. Even in the 19th century, declared wars were far outnumbered by military actions begun at a President's command...
...spring Cat Nguyen was 16, an honors student at West Jefferson High School, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, and an editor of a soon-to-be mimeographed school paper called Your Side. Five years before that she had reached this country from Viet Nam, with no command of English. Having come so far so quickly, she thought the world was at her ! feet -- until Principal Eldon Orgeron saw the paper and banned...