“They couldn’t promise that, could they?”

— Jack Finney, book From Time to Time

Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 11 (p. 112)
Context: “Of course not. Congress would have to declare war; this was back in the old-fashioned days when Presidents felt they had to honor their oath to abide by the Constitution.”

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Novelist, short story writer 1911–1995

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