{"id":82173,"date":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/82173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-trump-isnt-the-first-president-to-act-without-congressional-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/82173\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Trump isn\u2019t the first president to act without congressional approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I spent the late 1970s and 1980s closely connected to Ronald Reagan, a temperate and wonderful person. My father and brother were federal agency executive appointees of President Reagan, my mother an assistant to the president for eight years in the White House; I served as treasurer of his political action committee from 1982 to 1986.<\/p>\n<p>No one would compare President Trump to Ronald Reagan, or to many of the \u201cfounders\u201d of the country (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2026-05-19\/trump-sues-irs-10-billion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Founding Fathers would\u2019ve gotten rid of Trump long ago,\u201d<\/a> May 19).<\/p>\n<p>However, political leaders in any era are a product of their time. And, were it not for Trump, millions of Americans would have been trampled on while the country-club politicians in charge of the Republican Party fiddled in the minority.<\/p>\n<p>Columnist Jonah Goldberg neglects to recognize founder <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.duke.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3487&amp;context=lcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thomas Jefferson\u2019s acts<\/a> and those of several other presidents that were carried out without them seeking congressional approval. Instead, he serves as a vivid example of country-club concession to the political mob whose one goal is absolute and permanent power.<\/p>\n<p>Kip Dellinger, Santa Monica<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>To the editor: It\u2019s getting really tiresome reading Goldberg\u2019s scribes \u2014 and actually agreeing with him. Here\u2019s to another two years and eight months of this.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Bruce, Long Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I spent the late 1970s and 1980s closely connected to Ronald Reagan, a temperate and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[45752,21328,8541,20710,13173,45749,17923,45753,45751,17082,1302,10,65,11,45750,64,10173,74,512],"class_list":["post-82173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump","tag-assistant","tag-brother","tag-congressional-approval","tag-editor","tag-father","tag-federal-agency-executive-appointee","tag-first-president","tag-founder-thomas-jefferson","tag-kip-dellinger","tag-letter","tag-mother","tag-potus","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-president-reagan","tag-president-trump","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-trump","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116618279131916799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}