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Nixon, moreover, is acting in a dramatically altered political environment. Until recent years, an increase in presidential power was widely applauded. Since the Viet Nam War, however, presidential power has come under a cloud and many want to limit it. This adds to the consternation over Nixon's impounding. As Jackson pointed out: "Any actual test of power is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law." For this reason, constitutional authorities would prefer that the issue be ajudicated not in the courts but in the rough and tumble...
...training) and a can of crackers. Near each man is a glass filled with his chosen drink, and scattered about at convenient intervals are piles of crackers. Smoke from pipes, cigars, and cigarettes curls gracefully from the lips of the smokers to the thin blue cloud which obscures the ceiling. Thayer, our inimitable Billy, or a year later, Faulkner, is trolling a rollicking song, and at the proper intervals the chorus from every editorial throat swells out upon the night with more of power than of acuracy, and word goes from one late passer by to another that tonight...
With the outbreak of World War II, the President became a dominant international figure, and Congress assumed more and more the status of acolyte. The cataclysmic cloud of the atomic bomb 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...
...told him that some of the provisions might need some tightening up and that Kissinger would have to nail down the understandings and protocols for the cease-fire machinery. But he was pleased, approved the plan and ordered Kissinger to Saigon to sell it to Thieu. The only dark cloud was a prescient warning by the CIA to expect serious trouble from Thieu...
...free-for-all might still have been avoided, but was instead partially spurred on by a mix-up in orders. Fearing the worst, the ship's executive officer, Commander Ben Cloud, part black and part Indian, ordered all the blacks involved to the stern of the ship and the Marine guards toward the bow. A minute later, the captain countermanded the order, according to one witness, barking into the intercom "something like, 'If someone were to write a book on this cruise, this would have to be the most f-ed-up chapter. The exo has been misinformed...