Wars and Lies: A Quiz

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THE QUIZ

1. In the following statement, who is the person expressing his regrets?

"For the first time, he expressed his belief that the resolution had been extorted from Congress by deception, and said that he regretted his sponsorship of the resolution more than anything he had ever done in public life."

2. Who made the following statement about lying and withholding information from the Congress, the press, and the public?

"It was in the national interest, as we saw it, simply to tell them whatever would best serve to free the president from their interference."

3. When asked what would be revealed if many secret wartime documents were made public, who gave the following answer?

"the total lack of a good reason for what we were doing anywhere in the whole story"

4. When asked what he hoped to accomplish by revealing wartime information that was considered secret, who gave the following response?

"I hope the [Senators] discover that their responsibilities...go beyond getting re-elected...and that they can accept the responsibility of ending this war."

5. Who described this scenario?

"What we had come back to was a democratic republic - not an elected monarchy - a government under the law, with Congress, the courts, and the press functioning to curtail executive abuses, as our Constitution envisioned. [The legislature] was reclaiming, through its control of the purse, the war power it had fecklessly delegated years earlier. ...the war was going to end."