is it possible you missed that very first line?, it really compliments the third line..
I dont think there has been a need to do that throughout our whole history, but it was especially true in the early years that if congress was way off and had to come by horse and buggy the president had the responsibility, the moral and legal responsibility to thwart an attack on the United States.
Where have we seen all this word Parsing/explanations of what he really meant before??
Now I understand Jim Jones.
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