The Mounting Pressures on Wartime Presidents [7min]
When a war is not going well, tension increases between the military and civilians in the White House, says presidential historian Robert Dallek. And that, he says, can lead to pressure on a president to ask their defense secretary to resign. Robert Siegel talks with Dallek, who is currently writing a book about Nixon and Kissinger.
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