Seizing Power: The Steel Seizure Case Revisited


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Format: Color, Full screen, Ntsc
Studio: CustomFlix
ASIN: B00076R3MK

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This one-hour special program from KTEH and Stanford University examines
the 1952 decision by President Harry S. Truman to seize the nation's steel
mills to maintain steel production in order to support the American war
effort in Korea. The dramatic and unprecedented move infuriated steel
industry leaders, who sued the President of the United States to get their
property back. The arguments made before the Supreme Court just over 50
years ago about presidential power in times of war and national crisis
remain compelling today. Join host Kathleen M. Sullivan, dean of Stanford
Law School, as well as Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and
William Rehnquist, for this riveting hour of Constitutional give-and-take
over executive power in wartime.