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...Senator Fulbright: From your remarks, you think our policy is disastrous for our country...
...from Congress. "I think it would be a mistake," declared Bobby Kennedy, "for the President to take a step towards escalation of the conflict without having the support and understanding of the Senate and of the American people." The chief issue, said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, is "the authority of the Administration to expand the war without the consent of Congress and without any debate or consideration by Congress...
...Fulbright's demand for a voice in any new decision was swiftly echoed. "I think we must insist upon that," said New Jersey Republican Clifford Case. It also quickly spread into a wide-ranging attack on the war. Said Case: "It is now a question as to whether or not the war is winnable without the destruction of South Viet Nam and much of American might itself...
...number of us have been saying for 2½ years - that you cannot win a war by gradual response, that the only way to achieve military victory is through massive air and sea superiority." Crusty Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche did not defend the President so much as attack Fulbright. "The only way we can reach a decision is for the Senator of Arkansas to present a resolution to the Senate," he proposed. "Until he does that, I suggest that he quit talking...
...reading the statement, Fulbright underlined the key issue of the hearings--whether further escalations would be allowed. By endorsing it, he set himself and the majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in direct opposition to any further escalation of U.S. troop commitments in Vietnam...