Word: grueninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within 48 hours, the appropriation was approved by both houses with enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne...
At an afternoon rally in the outdoor Sylvan Theatre near the Washington Monument, Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) told the demonstrators, We are standing on the brink of a world war of cataclysmic proportions."
Gruening said the U.S. is strengthening the impact of Chinese propaganda waging "a bloody war--costly in lives and dollars--pitting white men against and fought to a standstill by a small Asiatic country."
The United States should "recognize the clear facts of life" and negotiate an immediate cease fire with the National Front," Gruening said. After rally the demonstrators poured down towards the Capitol to present to Congress. Finding the locked, however, students leading the the petition to one of gates at the...
Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) and journalist I.F. Stone will address the demonstrators at a rally near the Washington Monument.