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Dansmootreport KNOW YOUR GOVERNMENT SERIES PRODUCER CAROL MADDO THE 122 Woodside PI. Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 Dan Smoot ReportO AAn ^ r\r\r\ Vol. 3, No. 2 Monday, January 14, 1957 Dallas, Texas DAN SMOOT Twilight of the Republic or twenty years, many Americans have watched with anguish while their Republic was transformed, at times almost imperceptibly, into adictatorship. Yet, few were fully pre pared for the Eisenhower Doctrine — the Middle Eastern policy which Eisenhower outlined to a joint session of Congress on January 5, 1957. The President requested unlimited power to police the Middle East with American troops and to place all governments in that area on an American dole, whose size and distribution will be determined by the President. This was not Caesar standmg on the steps of the capitol hypocritically rejecting the crown of emperor. This was an American President standing in the capitol, requesting more power than Caesar ever dreamed of. And to read what the "conservative'* press of America had to say about it! "The President's calm, clear call for joint action by Congress with him on the perilous situation in the Middle-East demands the wholehearted approval of the entire'nation." That from a lead editorial in the Dallas Mornhjg Nexust And this from Bascom Timmons' usually fine column: "President Eisenhower's warning to Soviet Russia has a precedent more than 130 years old. That was the time that. President Monroe ... declared that any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere would be ^dangerous to our peace and safety.' " rp 1 here is no similarity between the Eisenhower Doctrine and the old Monroe Doctrine —as the next issue of The Dan Smoot Report will attempt to show by an actual comparison of the two presidential statements: James Monroe's of December 2, 1823; and Dwight Eisenhower's of January 5, 1957. But right now, some more important questions: What has happened to the American mind? How did we get in such condition thateven American conservatives will applaud a Pres ident who asks for powers which he will use not in response to the controls of Congress or to THE DAN SMOOT REPORT, edited and published weekly by Dan Smoot, P. O. Box 1305, 1430 San Rafael pnve, Dallas, Texas, Telephone DAvis 7-6744. Subscriprion rates: $10 00 a year, 56.00 for 6 months $3.00 for 3months, $18.00 for two years. For first class mail $12.00 a year; by airmail (including APO and FPO) $H.00 a year. FOREIGN: by regular mail, $13.00 a year; airmail $18.00. Reprints of specific issues: 1 copy 25^, 6for $1.00; 10 for $1.50; 50 for $5.50; 100 for $10.00 —each price for bulk mailing to one person. Copyright 1956 by Dan Smoot. Second class mail privileges authorized at Dallas, Texas Ae will of the American people, but which he W.1I use - as he himself bluntly puts it - i„ even know that a complete revolution has mendations 'sof"consonant...the United Nationswith any... subjectrecom- ican'nL'Tbetweenican people and their government? the Amer to the1 overriding; authorityiNauonsof the... Unitedsubject Tk- . • i Nations Security Council?" f.V, • of our inherited tradi- Th.The best way to answer these. questions American thought until a few to see where we are, how we got here and where such policies as the Eisenhower Doctrine sibihty•L'l- ofi- aself-governing,7 people.'12 will take us —IS to examine an essay, "The That doctrine has been swept away onlv the elders remember it. Now, in the name of democracy, it is accepted as apolitical fact that Saret G^rTtf people are the responsibility of government. Now the people pay for unlimited govern I- ' condensation of that essay pub- ment, whether they want it or not, L he howgovernmentthey are fedmindsand theirclothedlives-likingand housed^wto crossed the boundary that lies they provide for their old age; how the Z wh^^'^th If you ask own la^r,I shall.^J^chbe dividedIS theamongproductthem;of theirhow single stroke between day and night; the they shall buy and sell; how long a^d how precise moment does not matter. The Ronian Republic passed into the Roman tol. "" conditions they shall have said. That was yesterday."^ Roman,Technically,citizen This is the Welfare State. the Empire began with Augustus Caesar. But who pretended not to want the croWn.Caesar, couldcouTd''ni°"'"^®'Lno more have imagined aWelfareConstitutionState His heir was Octavian; yet neither did Oc- rising by sanction of its words than they tayian call himself emperor. He was most care- ful to observe the old legal forms. He restored smart the Constitution became i popular ex- the Sen«e. He made believe to restore the Re- public. Having acquired by universal consent, as he afterward wrote, "complete dominion There was one sentence of the Constim over everything both by land and sea," he ,h., ccM „ kng .„h, R,p„£ s^yinV '''' "And now I give back the Republic into war.^' Congress shall have power to declare your keeping. The laws, the troops, the treas ury, the province, are all restored to you. do. Only Congress could declarePresidentwar. couldThat May you guard them worthily." was the innermost safeguard of the Republic The r^ponse of the Senate was to crown him with oak leaves. After that, he reigned tor more than forty years and when he died eitwM"either the consent or knowledge of Congress^'thout the bones of the Republic were buried with aggressor, 7000 Afew months later, Mr. Truman sent Amer- D oes the younger half of this generation Irmv^dV-^?"'"^rmy, a^g,|lid it not only'1 without««™«ionalconsulting >• >4 s , Page'2 Cortgress, but challenged the power of Con- the President, nor in the hands of^he^ 'Con-i ' gress ^o stop him. .Congress made all of the gress alone, and naturally it did not belong to necessary sounds of anger and then poulticed the Supreme Court, for >t^t was a judicial ite dignity with a resolution saying it was Xbody. The solution was to put it in the hands all right for that one time. of the people. The Senate asked the State Department Only the people could say the last word. ' to set forth in writing what might be called If they really wanted a law which the Supreme the position of Executive Government. The Court said was unconstitutional they could State Department obligingly responded with have it by changing the Constitution. To a document entitled, "Powers of the Presi amend the Constitution takes time; but that dent to Send Troops Outside of the United also was intended, the idea being to make States." people reflect on what they are doing. Thiy document, in the year circa 2950, will So it worked, and worked extremely well, be a precious find for any historian who may for the Republic. It would not work for Em be trying then to trace the departing foot-' pire, because what Empire needs in govern prints of the vanished American Republic. ment is an executive power that can make It said: immediate decisions. discussion of the respective powers of the President and Congress has made clear, The Federal income-tax law of 1914 constitutional doctrine has been largely gave the government unlimited access to moulded by practical necessities. Use of the wealth and, moreover, power for the first time congressional power to declare war, for ex to levy taxes not for revenue only but for so ample, has fallen into abeyance because wars cial purposes. World War I immediately fol are no longer declared in advance." lowed. These two events marked the begin ning of a great rise in the executive power of Caesar might have said it to the Roman government. It was slow at first. Then came enate. If constitutional doctrine is moulded in rapid succession (1) the Great Depression by necessity, what is a written Constitution (2) the revolutionary Roosevelt regime, and for? (3) W^orld War II, all within an arc of twenty years. If you may have Empire with or without In those twenty years the sphere of Execu ^ within the form of a re tive Government increased with a kind of ex publican constitution, and if also you may plosive force. have Empire with or without an emperor, then ow may the true marks of Empire be dis A. few years ago if you had asked such a tinguished with certainty? question as, "Who speaks for the people?" the answer would have been "The Congress The first requisite of Empire is: of the United States." The executive power of government shall Now, it is the President who says: "I speak 'j dominant, for the people," or "I have a mandate from What the Constitution created was a gov- the people." three coequal powers each with a check-rein on the other. Neither had sovereign The President acts directly upon the power over the other, or over the people. emotions and passions of the people to influ ence their thinking. As he controls Executive The founders had to put sovereignty some Government, so he controls the largest propa where, and they wished to make it safe. They ganda machine in the world. The Congress thought it would not be safe in the hands of finds itself under pressure from the people who Page 3 have been moved for or against something by tional security, and Congress itself cannot the ideas broadcast in the land by the admin get it. istrative bureaus in Washington.
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