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...amendment would bar the expenditure of funds for U.S. combat activity in Cambodia after June 30. It would also prohibit financing of American personnel acting "directly or indirectly" in support of Cambodian forces either on Cambodian territory or in Cambodian airspace. The amendment, originally introduced by Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church, had picked up an additional 30 cosponsors by last week, including Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and George Aiken, senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee...
...Confidence. The Administration vehemently opposes both the Cooper-Church and McGovern-Hatfield amendments. Last week in a closed meeting with G.O.P. Senators, Administration spokesmen argued that any restraint on the President would be a show of no confidence. Next day White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler stated Nixon's case strongly and publicly. "The White House feels," he said, "that there should be no restraint on the powers of the President as Commander in Chief, as stated by the Constitution. It is the role of the Commander in Chief to protect the security of forces in the field...
...provision, known as the "amendment to end the war." Actually, there is little chance that even the Senate, where antiwar sentiment is stronger than in the House, will enact the McGovern-Hatfield amendment in its present form. But the Ziegler blast was aimed at the more imminent and modest Cooper-Church measure on Cambodia...
...quickly interjected, "I do not question the President's integrity. I believe the military sold him a bill of goods. They asked him how he would vote on the upcoming legislation to limit the President's power to wage war in Southeast Asia. He said he believed the Sherman-Cooper bill that would cut off expenditures for any military activity in Cambodia would surely pass, and that he supported it. Likewise, he said, he might be favorable to repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. "However," he said, "the one move I'm most reluctant to take...
...next week. Each asks for a withholding of military funds from the war. The stronger measure is the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to the military appropriations bill. It has virtually no chance of passing. The weaker amendment. which gives the President more time to withdraw the troops, is the Church Cooper amendment. Liberals in the Senate hope that when the McGovern-Hatfield bill is defeated the Church Cooper amendment may pass...