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Vietnam marked a notable chapter in this vexed history. Reflecting widespread disillusionment with that failed war, the War Powers Act of 1973 sought to severely limit the President's capacity to send troops abroad without explicit authority from Congress. It passed into law only over Richard Nixon's veto. All subsequent Presidents have refused to recognize its constitutionality. It has not yet been subjected to a full constitutional test before the Supreme Court...
...York's Metropolitan Opera last month at the world premiere of The First Emperor. Before the doors closed I had just a second to register the familiar face and stocky figure of Henry Kissinger. Why should I be surprised? It was only natural that the men who, as President Nixon's Secretary of State, had opened relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China should be in attendance at Lincoln Center for the Met's first-ever opera by a Chinese composer-conductor...
...wonder what the man to brought Nixon to Mao thought about that...
Naming burgers after celebrities and political leaders has been a tradition at Bartley’s since the early 1970s, when Joe Bartley served Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter club sandwiches...
Even as his faith inspired him to save Nixon, he refused to use it to save himself. Ford's discretion would be tested as the 1976 campaign took shape. Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist who taught Sunday school, did mission work, filled in for preachers when they were on vacation and told the crowd at a backyard reception in 1976 that he had been born again. His sister Ruth Carter Stapleton was herself an evangelist who used to minister to reporters in the back of Carter's campaign plane and wrote letters to the faithful enlisting...