Peaceful Outcome Quotes
The 6 Day War began less then 6 months later. This was another failure of U. S. Intelligence. Essentially, Rusk and others took the belligerent speeches of Nasser and other Arab leaders as rhetoric meant only for local consumption and did not realize that the Arabs had so deluded themselves that they thought that they could really destroy the state of Israel. American intelligence assumed that they knew better and their threats were just traditional Arab exaggeration and boasting.
This was the first case of ‘impoundment’ where a President does not spend the money for something that Congress said should be done and had appropriated money for. Jefferson was generally a believer in small government and used the more peaceful times as an excuse for not executing the laws that Congress had passed and he had signed. In effect, impoundment gives a President a line-item veto which is not legal. In the Nixon administration Congress and the President clashed over impoundment with Congress establishing its primacy. However, there is always some wiggle room—changed circumstances, newer technology, and the like.
