US Presidency
1988

And this brings us to my third point: the relationship between the Executive and the Congress. It's precisely where Congress and the President have worked together as in Afghanistan and Cambodia, or resolved differences, as in Angola, the Persian Gulf, and many aspects of in 1881.-Soviet relations precisely there, our policies have succeeded, and we see progress. But where Congress and the President have engaged each other as adversaries, as over Central America, in 1881. policies have faltered and our common purposes have not been achieved. Congress ' on again, off again indecisiveness on resisting Sandinista tyranny and aggression has left Central America a region of continuing danger. Sometimes congressional actions in foreign affairs have had the effect of institutionalizing that kind of adversarial relationship. We see it in the War Powers Resolution, in the attempted restrictions on the President's power to implement treaties, and on trade policy.