 | John A. Ferejohn, Jack N. Rakove, Jonathan Riley - 2001 - 430 strani
...1938, 2:14). If Congress failed this challenge, however, and was unable to pass needed legislation, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe" (Roosevelt 1938, 2:15). Historians have noted the importance of the wartime analogy to the justification... | |
 | Steven Casey - 2001 - 336 strani
...situation, Roosevelt ended with a warning. If Congress refused to act, he declared, he would ask it "for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded... | |
 | 2003 - 388 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. R>r the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do... | |
 | John Shelton Lawrence, Robert Jewett - 2002 - 429 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. Roosevelt is not predicting here that he will become a dictator; but he does promise that if Congress... | |
 | 2002 - 296 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. R>r the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do... | |
 | James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn - 2001 - 716 strani
...failed to lead on its own, "I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." A warning of dictatorship? "We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. 1 shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...emergency as great as the power that would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage... | |
 | Clinton Rossiter - 346 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...emergency, as great as the power that would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe."* It was on the day of this address that the economic... | |
 | Gerd Horten - 2002 - 252 strani
...the tone for his administration in his first inaugural speech when he announced that he would ask for "broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency,...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." Republican Alfred London, governor of Kansas, promised the president his full cooperation: "I now enlist... | |
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I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. 
