Should Congress Make Foreign Policy?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 3, 2015

With the (Republican) Congress looking ready to part ways with the Obama State Department over Iran policy, Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin Press, 2015), puts the question of whether "politics stops at the water's edge" in historical context.

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