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This is a real weakness, I think, of Wilson.

I think he really misunderstands a lot of American politics when it comes to foreign policy,

or he just is so arrogant that he refuses to engage in it.

But to your question about the end of World War One,

I would say that November 11th, but becomes Armistice Day,

is kind of akin to what we might call today the end of major combat operations.

That's when the guns fall silent, but is not as a matter of domestic law,

the end of the war, and not therefore the end of war powers.

I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast March 9th, 2019.

For the past year, Matt Waxman has been writing short LawFair vignettes

about interesting and usually overlooked historical episodes of American war powers in action

and relating them to modern debates.

These have been spin-offs from a larger book project that he's been working on

and have included the stories of St. Clair's defeat and the whiskey rebellion

during the Washington administration.

Congressional war powers and the surprisingly late termination of World War One,

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