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61. Ibid., pp. 540-541.
62. Numerous law review and other analytic articles during the late 1960s
and early 1970s were devoted to examination of presidential and congressional
authority pertaining to US participation in the Vietnam
War. See also Moore, pp. 541-543.
63. Schlesinger, The Imperial Precidency, p. 96.
64. US Congreus, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Documents Relating
to the War Power of Congress, the President's Authoritya,,;' Commanderin-Chief,
and the War in Indochina, 91st Congress, 2d session, 1970.
65. Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency, p. 61.
66. Ibid., p. 157, The congressional information problem is examined in
depth in a publication by the Congressional Research Service entitled
Congress, Information and Foreign Affairs, 1978,
67. Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency, p. 105.
68. For a complete discussion of congressional abdication of overall
foreign policy oversight in favor of concentration on specific foreign
affairs-related programs, see Congress, Information and Foreign Affairs.
69. Schlesinger, The Imperiel Presidency, p. 177.
70. Ibid., p. 182.
71. Ibid., p. 186.
72. The US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs requested that the Congressional
Research Service examine the power of Congress to terminate the
war and its implications. See Congress and the Termination of the
Vietnam War, April 1973.
73. Eagleton, p. 154.
74. Indochina Resource Center, A Time To Heal (Washington, D.C., 1976);
For discussion on alleged immorality of US actions in Vietnam War see
William Shawcross, Sideshow (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979); and
Francis Fitzgerald,7Fre.In the Lake (New York: Vintage Books, 1972).
75. Moore, p. 533.
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