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When President Reagan and Congress jousted last week over the question of their respective roles in Lebanon, they focused attention on a much debated, little understood piece of legislation: the War Powers Resolution. Passed in 1973, when the Viet Nam War was raging, the act was intended to limit a President's ability to wage undeclared war without congressional consent...
...armies." In practice, Presidents have traditionally enjoyed wide latitude in sending U.S. troops into dangerous situations, and Congress has rarely complained. But in the early 1970s, many legislators were troubled that Presidents Johnson and Nixon had been able to send hundreds of thousands of American troops into combat in Viet Nam without a formal declaration of war. When the Watergate scandal broke, Congress was emboldened to put limits on such presidential prerogatives and to assert its own power...
...wife who says she will not stump for him. He lost the 1972 general election by the largest plurality in history. In 1980, South Dakota voters ousted him from the Senate after 18 years of service. But George McGovern, 61, the outspoken prairie populist and critic of the Viet Nam War, is running for President-again. Said he after announcing his candidacy at a press conference last week: "I think I've got a real shot at the nomination...
...officially President of China. He too carries memories. During the Great Terror, mobbed by the Red Guards, he was saved only by Chou En-lai's intercession. How can you attack this man as a "capitalist roader," asked Chou, when he is in charge of our aid to Viet Nam, where we are fighting American imperialism...
Outside the classroom, his military career marched smartly ahead. He rose rapidly in the Army, winning combat decorations in Viet Nam and later helping the Pentagon set up the Volunteer Army. At 43, he became the youngest brigadier general on active duty at the time, strengthening a long-held presumption among peers and superiors that Dawkins would one day inevitably be Army Chief of Staff...