Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of the growing disaffection of congressional hawks, Nixon aides sent copies of antiwar speeches by two Georgia Representatives to the President at the Western White House in San Clemente. Both Democrats John J. Flynt and Phil M. Landrum reversed their consistent support of the Administration on the war and voted against an extension of the draft (which nonetheless passed 293 to 99). Flynt told a hushed House: "My conscience will not let me vote to continue to conscript young Americans to fight a war which most Americans do not want and a war which the U.S. Government apparently lacks...