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Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, The Senate And The Bombing Of Cambodia, Joel K. Goldstein
Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, The Senate And The Bombing Of Cambodia, Joel K. Goldstein
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The past has a way of repeating itself. Events may not reoccur in the precise manner previously experienced; yet, the pattern often is sufficiently familiar to resemble one encountered before. For those who experienced the Vietnam years, the war in Iraq carries some feeling of “déjà vu all over again.”[1] There are differences, to be sure, yet a familiar pattern emerges—a failed discretionary war on foreign shores, executive use of manipulated intelligence to build support, the parade of shifting rationales offered to replace those exposed as unconvincing, the presidential deceit and dissembling, the legislative abdication.
Thomas F. Eagleton spent the …
Foreword, Joel K. Goldstein
Foreword, Joel K. Goldstein
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Thomas F. Eagleton was an original. Many found him to be one of the most compelling and admirable people they had ever encountered. That was certainly my experience as I came to know him during the last few years of his life. And he certainly made a strong, favorable impression on the students we taught together at Saint Louis University School of Law in our seminar on the Presidency and the Constitution.