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...once awesome facade of presidential power was eroding. Congress, strengthened by the Watergate revelations, began asserting its authority. For the first time, the House rebelled against the President's Viet Nam policies. By 219 to 188, it voted to cut off funds for the continued bombing of Cambodia. The Administration announced that it would continue to bomb anyway, using contingency funds appropriated earlier...
...This Administration has no compassion for the bombing victims in Cambodia. It has no compassion for the poor or the unemployed. And now they ask us for compassion," Lowenstein said...
...DAYS when Richard Nixon could use foreign policy as the opiate of the masses are over. A Gallup poll released on Sunday showed that the nation opposes the bombing of Laos and Cambodia by a two-to-one margin and that it insists by a six-to-one ratio that the President must consult Congress before undertaking any further military actions in Southeast Asia...
However, the House of Representatives refused last Thursday to allocate funds for the Nixon Cambodia bombing. Despite his much-touted pledge as well as the popular desire that he respect Congress's prerogatives in the "post-Watergate" era, Nixon wasted no time in announcing that he would continue bombing no matter what Congress does...
...North Vietnam has agreed to another meeting in Paris on Thursday. However, the prime responsibility for maintaining the Vietnam peace agreement and that in Laos as well rests with the peoples of those countries. Congress and the public have come to accept that the U.S. must stop interfering in Cambodia's affairs, which will surely result in well-deserved victory of the revolutionary forces led by Prince Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge...