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no direct checks
abrogate treaties, pardon powers, receive foreign ambassadors
example not to recognize foreign nations
china Truman nonrecognition, mau government no
senate not involved, isolate and bring down to bring communist isolate and bring down the communist government we will not recognize, hostile policy, no trade for all practical purposes china does not exist and no contacts.
not working, making the USA look like a fool, Nixon wants to change course and normalize relations. doesn’t have to ask anyone you have to pry open the door sports are sometimes used, the cover of Time magazine, to thaw out relations with china, not allowed to travel there, Nixon meets the mass murderer built his presidency on anti-communism
the policy of nonrecognition Cuba
Cuba, Castro takes control Eisenhower extends recognition VP Nixon shakes hands with him, Castro leaning communism so he withdrew recognition power can withdraw, to show us displeasure with whatever they are doing 50 years usually don’t work
Obama decided full recognition embassy needed work
trump doesn’t know
1787 commander and chief power
narrow and formal until congress can declare war
presidential war-making power
something framers would not recognize, stretched informal and broad
why do citizens accept war-making
- Washington did 2. we get use to 3. because congress will accept because of resolutions, Afghanistan
and Iraq 4. technology of modern warfare ICBM missiles
Russia example ICBM example of war-making
10 minutes before missiles, all kinds of missiles we are toasts
johnson and escalation of the war authors supporting evidence in the article
personality fuel the war links domineering over staff man johnson treatment, a scar on the belly, footstool were winning the war in Vietnam, the ass doesn’t smell like, big ego takes war personality my war my boys
film johnson war in Vietnam
redoubling task to take back Vietnam, north attacks, the film looks human,
why escalation of the war
not tough enough on communism not f
politics of anti-communism
soft on comm kiss of death, target appoint you will win election, most powerful force of the time
4th branch often not responsive
to the policy preferences of the president and congress, large organizations resist change
why not responsive to the president and congress
civil service system, that governs 4th branch employees, roughly 2 million of them non-partism, merit-based hiring, and protection from political retribution
prior system to the civil service system
spoil system or patronage system could hire his friends and family industrial revolution we needed to
civil service system problems
large organization resistant to change
