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Next day the move to table Morse's rider was passed by 92 votes to 5. The five votes all came from Democrats: Alaska's Ernest Gruening, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy, Ohio's Stephen Young, Sponsor Morse and, most notably, Bill Fulbright. With that nay, Fulbright...
Reluctance to Deprive. Fulbright did vote for the $4.8 billion money bill, which passed the Senate by 93 votes to 2 (Morse and Gruening). "None of us," Fulbright explained, "wants to deprive the armies in the field of anything they need." But he said that his dispute with the Administration...
With most members of Congress facing reelection, Democrats in particular feared that the war would cut into vaunted Great Society programs; as one Republican cracked, they were asking the President to "hold up the guns until we can get the butter spread." While Fulbright in effect wanted the Administration to...
The Kennedy government, influenced by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, raised the number of non-fighting U.S. advisors in Vietnam from 600 to 15,000, Gruening said. Kennedy, however, maintained his view of the conflict as a civil war.
Gruening quoted a September, 1963, television interview with Kennedy in which the late President said, "In the final analysis, it is their war. We will send advisors and equipment but they have to win it."