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...immeasurably enhanced the life-and-death powers of the President in world affairs. Although there had been some legislative protests when various Presidents had ignored the constitutional war-making powers of Congress by sending troops briefly into Latin American republics in the 1920s, there was little complaint when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to Korea and Dwight Eisenhower ordered Marines to Lebanon. John Kennedy kept Congress ignorant of his plans to invade Cuba, and Lyndon Johnson merely informed Congress that he was sending troops in huge numbers into Viet Nam. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Johnson a free hand...
...long frustration of the Viet Nam War more than any other factor that has fed the growing reaction against presidential power. Indeed, there has been an ironic turnabout by academics and liberals who once excoriated members of Congress as moss-backed obstructionists retarding the social legislation of F.D.R., Truman and Kennedy. Now such critics attack Congressmen for acquiescing in the war policies of Johnson and Nixon, and for not obstructing more. The rationale of legislators has long been that the President "knows better" than they about a complex problem like Viet Nam through the Executive's intelligence and military...
NONFICTION 1-The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (1) 2-Harry S. Truman, Truman (2) 3-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (3) 4-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (6) 5-Supermoney, "Smith" (4) 6-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (5) 7-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye," O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (9) 8-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot 9-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 10-Blackberry Winter, Mead
...rate for his sixth floor room was $59.50 a day, to be paid partly by Medicare, in which Truman held card No. 1, and partly by private insurance...
Died. Harry S. Truman, 88, 33rd President of the United States (see THE NATION...