Though I felt after studying the question that I had the inherent power to commit our forces to battle after the U.N. resolution, I solicited congressional support before committing our forces to the Gulf war.
Remarks at Dedication Ceremony of the Social Sciences Complex at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
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