And I want to take just a second to, to make sure everybody understands how this is playing out and how I view it myself. I was a very young man at the time of the Vietnam war. But In 1973, Congress was very frustrated with not just the current President, but several Presidents before them. So they passed the [War] Powers Resolution to rein in the President. And in essence in that resolution they said a couple of things. One was that the President had to notify Congress that they had to come back in 48 hours … (00:46–00:58)
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