Authority Conflict Quotes
The only soldier ever so honored
McPherson was the first woman who preached over the radio. With the advent of radio for all purposes, stations were being erected all over the country and began to interfere with each others broadcast. Herbert Hoover saw this as a Federal Problem and authorized his administration to regulate the power and wavelength frequencies that stations could use for their broadcasts. McPherson had built the Angelus Temple in Echo Park with two huge radio towers but she was broadcasting “the word of God” and did not want to be restricted to broadcasting on a single frequency. She and others, even today, see any regulation of a religious activity as an impingement of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
This was Executive Privilege of the time. The result of this type of conflict between the executive and the legislative body was a Civil War in which Parliament won. This concept of executive privilege operates to this day in America where the President typically refuses to have his special assistants and staff be questioned by Congressional investigating committees. IT also extends to documents where the President has refused to allow Congress access to papers. In the Watergate scandal, it was the Supreme Court Decision that President Nixon could not claim Executive Privilege with respect to the Watergate tapes. Their exposure forced his resignation.
Describes the contest between President Ulysses S. Grant and the Mormons over the issue of polygamy in the 1860s
