Word: gores
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...FIRST U.S. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) seems too jovial and soft-spoken to be one of the heroes in the Senate debate on Vietnam. But since December, 1964, Gore has been unyielding in his vigorous opposition...
After the Foreign Relations Committee's hearings on Vietnam in February, 1966, Gore told his colleagues that their committee could not change Administration policy unless it went "over the President's head to the people." He followed his own advice, and now, he notes with obvious pride, "I'm probably on the lceture circuit to colleges more than any other member of the U.S. Senate...
...Although Gore considers public pressure on the President important, he shares Sen. J. W. Fulbright's desire to make foreign affairs a matter of "teamwork" with the Executive. Occasionally Fulbright indicates that he might be happy just to have the President ask his committee's advice, but Gore thinks the goal should be approval or disapproval of basic policy...
...Johnson Administration, of course, is unwilling even to consult dovish Senators before it makes decisions on the war. Last week Fulbright had to threaten a delay of the foreign aid authorization to compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...
Senator Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will appear at 8 p.m. tomorrow, in the Leverett House old library...