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WHEN wounded, even a dove can express its pain by crying out. As South Dakota Democrat George McGovern faced certain defeat in the Senate on the amendment that he and Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield had sponsored to force the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by the end of 1971, he assailed his colleagues in brutally personal terms. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," he charged. "This chamber reeks of blood...
...margin of defeat for the Mc-Govern-Hatfield proposal was neither small enough to constitute a "moral victory," as Hatfield claimed, nor large enough to stand as an impressive endorsement of presidential policy. The willingness of more than a third of the Senators to take the unprecedented step of handing the President a deadline for terminating a shooting war was a clear warning that senatorial patience was precariously thin. Yet the vote also indicated Nixon's skill at maneuvering to take the steam out of each resurgence of opposition to his strategy for seeking peace...
Agnew himself was a major contributor to the domestic controversy last week with a harsh personal attack on two leading Senate doves. Appearing before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Miami Beach, he went after Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield and South Dakota Democrat George S. McGovern, two of the authors of a Senate measure that would end all American combat operations in South Viet Nam by Dec. 31, 1970. Their plan, Agnew said, is a blueprint for disaster and humiliation, "chaos and Communism." He added: "One wonders if they really give a damn." In a Senate speech the next...
...substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
...including Agency Chiefs Carl Ally, William Bernbach, Laurence Dunst, George Lois and Richard Lord. Top talent worked nights and weekends to produce the ads. Agencies supplied all the materials free, down to the film itself. The $250,000 needed to broadcast the messages came from donations received by McGovern, Hatfield and other Senators after their appearance on NBC last May to seek support in ending the war. Since then the networks have repeatedly refused to sell the Senators additional time for similar programs, contending that their views were well covered in regular news programs. Rebuffed, the Senators turned to advertising...