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...House floor last week, Manhattan's Congressman Frederic Rene Coudert Jr. offered an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill. Its purpose, as Republican Coudert explained it, was "to prevent another Korea ... by any President who chooses ... to bypass the Congress in committing the people of the U.S. to great and bloody wars...
...language of "Fritz" Coudert's rider was disarmingly simple. It barred the use of any money for sending U.S. forces into "armed conflict anywhere in the world" except I) after congressional declaration of war, or 2) in event of an enemy attack on either the U.S. or an allied nation with a treaty commitment from...
That same day President Eisenhower opposed the principle behind the Coudert amendment, calling it an artificial restriction upon the President's flexibility of action. Congressional leaders agreed with Eisenhower...
Hard Politics. The hard, cold fiscal facts were impressive-but so were the hard, cold political facts. Congressional Republicans were inclined to agree with New York's Representative Frederic Coudert that the Administration had put Congress in "a cruel and bitter dilemma." The party that for 20 years had fought a mounting federal debt was in the position of asking for an increase in a statutory debt limit that had stood for seven years...
...offense this season. Grateful for the rest, and bounding with energy, he belted Princeton's all-American nominee Brad Glass out of almost every play last week. A one hundred and eighty two pounder, the rugged and agile Polich is probably the smartest lineman on the team. Charley Coudert, the other offensive guard, is a squat 209 pounds, and doesn't move so well as Polich. Coudert, a senior who played jayvee ball as a sophomore, second string as a junior, is the most improved lineman...