Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blank Check. Constitutionally, Congress can only begin a conflict by a declaration of war, and then sustain it by voting whatever appropriations the President requests to carry on the fighting. The U.S., of course, has not declared war in Viet Nam. Nonetheless, in 1964 Congress did pass, with only two dissenting votes, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, affirming its readiness "to approve and support the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression...
Fulbright himself sponsored the Tonkin resolution, a fact he now loudly regrets, claiming that the President has taken the measure as a blank check to wage unlimited war without any further consultation with Congress. For his part, President Johnson argued at his last press conference that Congress could vote to rescind the Tonkin resolution-but that also was legalistic legerdemain, since the President insisted at the same time that he had had no constitutional need for the Tonkin resolution in the first place...
...barely wide enough for their shoulders. Slowly, the artillerymen clawed their way through the 75-ft. pipe to freedom. But their ordeal was not yet over. Though they had started the day at 5 a.m., they still had to run a mountainous ten-mile course, evading aggressors armed with blank bullets and dummy grenades. Most of them made it back to their mess hall just in time for the next day's classwork...
...last week, when diplomats from the two countries agreed upon a draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the general enthusiasm was understandable. After five years of dickering, it was all too easy to overlook the fact that one vital article of the treaty had been left blank. The negotiators in Geneva simply agreed to resume arguing later about the inspection procedures that all along have been one of the major stumbling blocks...
...projection of the enemy, but the paralysis with which the vast majority of people of all countries accept the war..." The film is most effective when it contrasts the woman on the street saying "Yes, we'd have to retaliate if they attacked first" with the terrified, and terrifying blank faces of the children who "survived" the retaliation...