Making American foreign policy: President-Congress relations from the Second World War to Vietnam

Abstract

Congress and collective security - the resolutions of 1943 Congress and bi-partisanship - the formation of NATO, 1949 Congress and Franco Spain - the pact of Madrid, 1953 Congress and the Cold War - US China policy 1955 Congress and the Middle East - the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 Kennedy and the Congress - the nuclear test ban treaty, 1963 Nixon versus the Congress - the war powers resolution, 1973. Conclusions and a look at the post-Vietnam record.