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...cause of the current imbroglio is politics: Congressional and Presidential. Last March, the Marshall Commission recommended a random-selection draft system, as did President Johnson four days later in the Selective Service legislation he sent to Congress. Senator Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was initially opposed to the measure, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) convinced him of its merits. The bill the Senate passed allowed the President to institute a lottery on his own initiative without consulting Congress...
...baffling to understand why such supporters of the Vietnam war as Senators Russell (D-Ga.), Thurmond (R-S.C.), Stennis (D-Miss.), and Byrd (D-Va.) were so outraged by the intervention. Maybe it is because they are southern whites, and Mobutu represents black African nationalism. Russell deplored entering "in local wars where we have no moral commitment to intervene." He is upset by the use of three U.S. planes there and at the same time calmly approves the expenditure of billions in Vietnam. It is amazing logic...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The meaning of "euphoria" is not all that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has had to explain to Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the other senators hearing testimony on the partial test ban treaty...
...House defeated the amendment on a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) claimed that the President has the authority to make the change by executive order. It seems strange that Congress, which so often complains of the excessive powers assumed by the President, would not take the initiative in the case of this useful action...
...amendment was offered by Rep. Roman Pucinski (D-Ill.), and was defeated by a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke against the measure...