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...great swashbuckling politician with 30 years of congressional experience, Johnson had proved a powerful manipulator of men and institutions,” Yoo wrote. “[But] as he entered the presidency, Johnson was conscious of his ignorance, and decided to rely on Kennedy’s advisers to help carry the load...
...Atlanticists kicked off a major official effort to bring the MLF into being,” Yoo wrote. “Cables went out to European capitals proclaiming that Johnson had made the MLF the heart of his NATO policy...
...when it became clear that Congress opposed the MLF program, Johnson simply let it drop. Unlike Eisenhower, Yoo claimed, Johnson was not an internationalist at heart...
Since the great majority of the memos that he wrote for the administration are still classified, it is impossible to know precisely what Yoo has advocated. But of those classified memos reviewed by Times reporters, many are sweeping in their view of the president’s powers...
...confidential memo, Yoo wrote that two Congressional resolutions regarding the president’s authority to use force did not “place any limits on the president’s determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing and nature of the response,” according to the Times...