Your editorial ”The power to make foreign policy” stated that ”the central question is whether the Congress has the authority to control, by using its power over appropriations, any and every aspect of American foreign policy.”
This reminded me of the Great White Fleet that President Theodore Roosevelt was determined to send around the world in 1907 to show the world we had a Navy that could patrol and defend both coasts. When many congressmen threatened to cut appropriations for the Navy, he ordered the white ships to sail.
”If they run out of fuel or provisions in the middle of the ocean or in some foreign port, it will be your responsibility to get them back,” he told the Congress. The 16 battleships and 4 destroyers completed the trip in 14 months.
