Surprisingly, some thirty years after the Roosevelt executive agreement that supplied Great Britain with much needed navy destroyers was cited by these influential senators as a perfect example of usurping the treaty power of the Senate. The term of surprisingly is used in the answer in that with hindsight being 20-20, the survival of Britain was key to the later success of the US in the war in Europe.
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In April of 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt made an executive agreement with the Danish minister to have US troops occupy Greenland. As this was a move to strengthen the Western Hemisphere Congress had no objections.
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President Roosevelt used the executive agreement as the basis for the exchange of American Navy Destroyer ships in exchange for the lease of British bases after the Fall of France in 1940.
An executive agreement is defined as being an agreement which is made between the president and a foreign country. One example of an executive agreement was NAFTA.
An executive agreement does not require Senate approval.
An executive agreement does not require Senate approval.
The executive agreement is like setting the rules for the treaty.
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Congress can pass a joint resolution revoking an executive agreement.
The Iran Nuclear Agreement was an executive agreement because Obama chose to name it an executive agreement. There is nothing in the Agreement that makes it an executive agreement as opposed to a treaty, but Obama was well aware that a treaty requires two-thirds approval by the Senate and he could not count on two-thirds of Senators approving the agreement. As a result, he chose to make it an executive agreement, which only needs an up or down vote from half of the senators.
At the end of May, 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation. In this proclamation he declared that the US was in a state of "unlimited national emergency". On that basis Roosevelt made an executive agreement with Iceland to have US troops dispatched to Iceland. This move caused concern in the Senate. Senator Taft of Ohio expressed the most concern. Later Roosevelt stated that it was better that US troops reached Iceland before Nazi Germany did.