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War Powers Reconsidered

By Senator Jacob K. Javits
Fall 1985
Article Summary and Author Biography

We live at a juncture where U.S. foreign policy is at higher risk than at any point since the end of the Vietnam War. Great and sometimes confused and countervailing interests are at stake in Nicaragua; indeed, across Central America. The Persian Gulf is a tinderbox, which could be engulfed in the flames of Islamic fundamentalism. And we have seen the Middle East_s coastal plain torn and fragmented to the point of anarchy in Lebanon.

Jacob K. Javits was Republican Senator from New York for 24 years (1957-81) and Representative in Congress from New York_s 21st District for eight years (1947-55). He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and has written and lectured extensively on congressional war powers. Copyright © 1985 by Jacob K. Javits.

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