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Truman realizes in 1950 he could enter the Korean conflict without having to seek Congressional approval. All he had to do was describe the deployment of U.S. troops as a police action taken in conjunction with the United Nations.

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The missile gap happens while Eisenhower is in office and his office is blamed for letting the soviets develop an advantage over the US. John F. Kennedy later solves this problem when he is in office.

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John F. Kennedy is sworn in on January 20th, 1961. Kennedy expanded the power of the presidency, particularly in foreign affairs.

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Two months into his presidency Kennedy announces the Alliance for Progress and the Peace corps.

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Kennedy initiated a marine “quarantine” of Cuba, in which U.S. ships would intercept vessels suspected of delivering weapons. Kennedy went on national television at 7 p.m. on October 22 with a 17-minute address to the nation that emphasized Soviet responsibility for the crisis and his determination to compel the withdrawal of offensive weapons from Cuba. His intent was to build a consensus not merely for the quarantine but also for any potential military conflict with the Soviet Union.

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Johnson initiated a bombing campaign against North Vietnam in March 1965 and then committed 100,000 U.S. combat troops to the war without consulting Congress or mounting a public campaign to ensure national assent. This shows that the president truly has control over foreign affairs.

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Nixon normalized relations with the People’s Republic of China, after an interruption of more than 20 years, was one of his most important foreign policy achievements.

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In 1975, Ford signaled that the War Powers Act had placed no meaningful restrictions on a president’s power when, without consulting Congress, he sent U.S. commandos to liberate American seamen seized from the cargo ship Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist government.

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After the terrorist attacks of September 2001, George W. Bush won Congressional resolutions backing the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but both were substantial military actions that under any traditional reading of the Constitution required declarations of war.