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- Title
The Unhappy Legal History of the War Powers Resolution.
- Authors
Dudziak, Mary L.
- Abstract
Keywords: Military and Warfare; Politics and Government; Vietnam War; Post-1945; Law and the Courts EN Military and Warfare Politics and Government Vietnam War Post-1945 Law and the Courts 270 273 4 09/19/23 20230701 NES 230701 In 1973, two years after President Richard Nixon expanded the U.S. war in Vietnam, sending ground troops to Cambodia and provoking massive antiwar demonstrations, the U.S. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution (WPR) over Nixon's veto. In a memo defending President Reagan's secrecy in communications and arms shipment to Iran, Assistant Attorney General Charles J. Cooper argued that the President's foreign affairs power was "presumptively exclusive.".
- Subjects
LEGAL history; WAR; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; CONSTITUTIONAL history
- Publication
Modern American History, 2023, Vol 6, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
2515-0456
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/mah.2023.26