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June 21, 1965 issue

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The overriding of the U.S. Congressional power to declare war is not the fault of the U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson or any other President. In effect, technology has repealed, a provision of the Constitution, which belongs to an age of slow communications and primitive weaponry. But this is far from saying that the Congress has been relieved of all responsibility for consequences of Presidential action in committing the U.S. to hostilities against other states. On the contrary, since powers of the President have been so vastly augmented by technological circumstance, it is the more incumbent on the Congress to discuss, debate and continuously review subsequent developments.

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WAR; WEAPONS; UNITED States. Congress; PRESIDENTS -- United States; JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; UNITED States
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