John Curtis: “In essence in that resolution they said a couple of things…”

“But in 1973, Congress was very frustrated with not just the current President, but several Presidents before them. So they passed the Board's 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 with specifics, that they had to keep us regularly updated through that whole process and that within 60 days the hostilities had to be ceased with a possible 30 day extension window that the President could operate in. So while Congress intended for that to rein in the President, it's actually been used not just by this President, but literally almost every President since then, both Republican and …” (00:58–01:20)

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