Two examples of the exercise of presidential power

Thomas JeffersonSent navy to deal with Barbary pirateJames K. PolkSent troops to Mexico to defend newly acquired TexasAbraham LincolnBlockaded southern ports and declared martial lawFranklin D. RooseveltSent fifty destroyers to England to be used against Germany, with which we were then technically at peaceHarry TrumanSent American troops into South Korea to help repulse a North Korean attack on that countryJohn F Kennedy and Lyndon JohnsonSent American forces into south Vietnam without a declaration of warRonald ReganSent troops to overthrow a pro-Castro regime in GrenadaReaganSent the navy to protect oil tankers in the Persian GulfGeorge H.W. BushOrdered the us invasion of Panama to depose dictator Manuel NoriegaBushOrdered troops to Saudi Arabia in response to Iraq's invasion of KuwaitBill ClintonOrdered military to attack, with bombs and cruise Missiles, Serbian forces that were trying to control KosovoGeorge w bushSent us troops to liberate Afghanistan from the Taliban, a regime supportive of Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11 terrorist attacksBushInvaded Iraq