Word: grueninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"I believe that we asked ourselves into this war in Vietnam," Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) said last night before the Law School Democrats at Harkness Commons.
Last week, in an 800-word letter to Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, Ike publicly changed his mind. Wrote he: "I realize that in important segments of our people and of other nations this question is regarded as a moral one, and therefore scarcely a fit subject for...
The occasion for Ike's letter was the start of Senate committee hearings on a bill, sponsored by Gruening, that would establish assistant secretaryships for population control in both the State Department and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. For Gruening, Ike's support was additional evidence...
Gruening himself has been a birth control advocate since his 1912 graduation from the Harvard Medical School, and his advocacy has landed him in hot political water. In 1936, as Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administrator, he was shocked by the island's economically ruinous population growth. Using federal funds, he...
Finally, Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening, one of the most vocal critics of Administration policy in Viet Nam, delivered a furious speech in the Senate: "Unhappily, the U.S. press has been gravely derelict in reporting what has transpired in the OAS with regard to the Dominican crisis. Commentators express...