The first historical interpretation of the congressional response
to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including
several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study,
the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a weak Cold
War Congress, in which the unbalanced relationship between the
legislative and executive branches culminated in the escalation of
the U.S. commitment in Vietnam, which in turn paved the way for a
congressional resurgence best symbolized by the passage of the War
Powers Act in 1973. Instead, understanding the congressional
response to the Cold War requires a more flexible conception of the
congressional role in foreign policy, focused on three facets of
legislative power: the use of spending measures; the internal
workings of a Congress increasingly dominated by subcommittees; and
the ability of individual legislators to affect foreign affairs by
changing the way that policymakers and the public considered
international questions.
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