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...foreign military aid bill. Their judgment seemed to be upheld when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for U.S. troop withdrawal from Viet Nam by October was voted down 49-44. Then an even more dovish amendment was offered by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper. It authorized further funds for Indochina only for the purpose of withdrawing all American troops in four months. At best, the amendment would have commanded 40 votes...
...John Stennis made the standard defense of current policy. "Congress has no negotiating power," he said. "That power rests with the President." But that is precisely the argument the Senate is tired of hearing, considering how much of its powers have slipped away to the President. Retorted Cooper: "If we accept this argument for all time, we will have placed upon ourselves a condition, a prohibition that would forbid us from ever exercising our constitutional responsibility...
...Although Cooper then voted against his own amendment because he disliked the Brooke addition, it too passed, 49-46. "I hadn't realized the votes were there for something stronger than my own approach," said Mansfield. "It was a better amendment...
...Cooper dismissed the photographer's suit, saying Galella had "clearly" perjured himself during the trial, and that "not a single event, episode or incident was established in his favor." Cooper also ruled that henceforth Galella must stay at least 50 yards away from her, 75 yards away from the children, and 100 yards away from the family's home and schools. Nor may he communicate with them...
...right of privacy is not specifically in the Constitution, but Judge Cooper followed a growing number of jurists in finding that individual privacy derives protection from, among other things, the First Amendment right of free association and the Fourth Amendment restrictions on search and seizure. Whether the right to privacy overrides the First Amendment rights of the press was not really decided, however, because Cooper suggested that Galella was more a self-aggrandizing businessman than an authentic journalist. In addition, the judge found no journalistic justification for Galella's constant surveillance: "We see no constitutional violence done by permitting...