JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HOW CONGRESS HELPED END THE VIETNAM WAR. As Congress begins to debate how to wind down the U.S. presence in Iraq, we’ve made available a very timely piece from our upcoming print issue. Historian Julian Zelizer takes a detailed look at how the Vietnam-era Congress — and not just the foreign-policy doves, but the fiscal conservatives as well — compelled the Johnson and Nixon administrations to limit and eventually end America�s military intervention in Southeast Asia. Zelizer, a professor of history at Boston University, a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of acclaimed studies of Congress, reports how Congress influenced public opinion, limited the scope of the war, and eventually restricted funding for the conflict.
—The Editors