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On this day in 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon Johnson to escalate US troop presence in Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress
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49 years ago today, Gerald Ford signs Senate Joint Resolution 23. Pardoning and restoring rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee.
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Is it inaccurate to say that the President should matter less to Americans than the members of the other branches?
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In 1927, Taft as Chief Justice voted to uphold a eugenic law passed by Virginia allowing its agencies to pick individuals deemed “unfit” to reproduce and sterilize them. The Plaintiff, a rape victim Carrie Buck, was sterilized for being “feeble minded and promiscuous.”
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