4. Determine Author's Purpose When President
Nixon vetoed the War Powers Resolution in
1973, he noted: "If the War Powers) resolution
had been in operation, America's effective
response to a variety of challenges in recent
years would have been vastly complicated or
even made impossible. We may well have been
unable to respond in the way we did during the
Berlin crisis of 1961, the Cuban missile crisis of
1962, the Congo rescue operation in 1964, and
the Jordanian crisis of 1970--to mention just a
few examples." How do the examples given by
President Nixon support his decision to veto the
War Powers Act?