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SENATOR GEORGE AIKEN, 80, is a plain-talking, sharp-thinking Vermont Republican who has served in the Senate since 1941 and has definite views on the predicament of Congress. During the Pentagon papers affair, he noted caustically that a long time the Executive Branch has tended to regard Congress as a foreign enemy-to be told as little as possible...
...Aiken is the senior Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee; he is in the vortex of the struggle between Administration and congressional critics on Viet Nam. Old Friend Mike Mansfield says that Aiken is neither a hawk nor a dove but a "wise old owl," and there are indications that Aiken may well take the field against his party's President if the war does not end soon...
...Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken, Dell...
...Year: Vermont's Senator George Aiken, whose plan for ending the Viet Nam War (Say we won and get out) is finally about to be adopted...
...some moderate Republicans seemed to be wavering. Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson flatly protested: "I am unwilling to take the risk of war with the Soviet Union by engaging in attacks on their ships and planes. I don't think Viet Nam is that important." Vermont Senator George Aiken, a senior Republican who had deplored the North Vietnamese invasion, criticized the mining as ineffective and called it "brinkmanship...