CONGRESSIONAL INFLUENCE ON FOREIGN POLICY DISCUSSED BY REP. STRATTON

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 4, 1964
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SOCIAL STUDIES
TEACHERS HEAR
CONGRESSMAN
U. S. foreign policy, although
,upposedly the prerogative of
the executive branch of our gov-
ernment, is very definitely sub-
ject to powerful Congressional
nfluence, stated a member of
that Congress here Saturday.
Speaking before the Ninth An-
nual Conference of Social stud.
ies Teachers at Cortland Col-
lege, Congressman Samuel S.
.Stratton, 35th District represen-
tative, added that its influence
is not always for the good.,
" . For all the great help
which Congress can give and has"
given towards the development
:Of a constructive, foreign polic
I y,
esp~,cially in terms of heavy ap-
propr ations for military and
econa.;ic assistance abroad,
Coy;;-rc:ss is always under strong
temptation to do things or say
thins that could seriously jeo-
pardize effective foreign policy
actions," he said.
Quick answers and "pat" so-
lutions to world crisis, as some-
times offered from that Con-
gress,' just don't exist, he con-
tinued. "All major world prob-
lems, when you get up close
and get all. the facts, turn out .to
be a whole lot more complex
than they sometinle-s seem to be.
in the, newspapers-whether ink'
Berlin., Cuba, Viet Nam or Latin S
America. The solution that gets,
the biggest headlines or the loud-
est after-dinner applause may
also create risks or hazards that
are totally unacceptable."
STRATTON 5z"? a>:---Rep.
Samuel S. Stratton i.: :; ?eeted
BY-Dr; 1 arai` t: T. zLiligan,
professor of Europea_: ;;story
at Cortland College. anr chair-
man of the Ninth Annua Con-
.Al
of more than 100 teachers
from around the state, Stratton
spoke on "The Impact of Con-
f;ress on Our Foreign Policy."
Left to right are Dr. Ralph
Brown, professor of American
history and dinn
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ference for Social Si.udies Prof. Thomas Davis, guest
Teachers held at the college ",speaker on Latin America,
Saturday.. Addressing a group! Dr. Halligan, Rep.. Stratton,,
and Prof. C. Vincent Confer,
guest' speaker on France.
Seated at the head table in
addition were Dr. Joseph ,
"Mack, Dr. George McDermott,
Dr. Donald Stewart, Dr. Gil.
bert Cahill, Dr. Victor Bahou,
(field representative for Strat-
ton), and Dr. Robert Clark.
(Cortland Photo Service)
Continued
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Send the Marines Diverse Policy Stratton predicted that "un-
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