Sunday, November 13, 2011

Other than Nixon, are there other examples of executive abuse of power?

Harry Truman's act of seizing control of the steel mills. There was a strike among steel workers and Truman feared that any slow-down in steel production could hurt the Korean War effort. So he announced that federal troops would go to the mills and keep them running. But that course of action was ruled by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional.

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