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|date=May 12, 2009}}</ref> Javits spent most weekdays in [[Washington, D.C.]], while his wife remained in their [[Manhattan]] apartment to pursue her interest in the arts. He hence commuted for twenty-four years to see her.<ref name=nydn/>
 
|date=May 12, 2009}}</ref> Javits spent most weekdays in [[Washington, D.C.]], while his wife remained in their [[Manhattan]] apartment to pursue her interest in the arts. He hence commuted for twenty-four years to see her.<ref name=nydn/>
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In foreign affairs, he backed the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Middle East and pressed for more foreign military and economic assistance. He voted in 1964 for the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]] but later became critical of President Johnson's handling of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book​
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In foreign affairs, he backed the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Middle East and pressed for more foreign military and economic assistance. He voted in 1964 for the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]] but later became critical of President Johnson's handling of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>Michael S. Mayer, ''The Eisenhower Yearsm'' Google Books, 2009, p. 351</ref>  
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|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1438119089|title=The Eisenhower Years|page=351 |publisher=Google Books|isbn=1438119089​|author=Michael S. Mayer|date=2009}}</ref>  
      
By the end of 1967, Javits joined those ideologically opposed to the Vietnam War and called for a peaceful solution to the conflict.​ He backed the  Cooper-Church Amendment, named foer the Moderate Republican Senator [[John Sherman Cooper]] of [[Kentucky]]. The measure barred funds for American forces in [[Cambodia]], and he also voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that he had earlier supported. He sponsored the [[War Powers Resolution]] of 1973, which sought to reinforce congressional jurisdiction over foreign policy. The resolution, which President [[Richard M. Nixon]] vetoed proposed to limit to sixty days the ability of a president to send American armed forces into combat without congressional approval.<ref>{{cite web​
 
By the end of 1967, Javits joined those ideologically opposed to the Vietnam War and called for a peaceful solution to the conflict.​ He backed the  Cooper-Church Amendment, named foer the Moderate Republican Senator [[John Sherman Cooper]] of [[Kentucky]]. The measure barred funds for American forces in [[Cambodia]], and he also voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that he had earlier supported. He sponsored the [[War Powers Resolution]] of 1973, which sought to reinforce congressional jurisdiction over foreign policy. The resolution, which President [[Richard M. Nixon]] vetoed proposed to limit to sixty days the ability of a president to send American armed forces into combat without congressional approval.<ref>{{cite web​
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