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...military activity in Cambodia would surely pass, and that he supported it. Likewise, he said, he might be favorable to repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. "However," he said, "the one move I'm most reluctant to take is the one the students mostly want-the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment [which would bar appropriations for any military operations in Southeast Asia except withdrawal of troops]. I share your concern about the constitutionality of that method of pressuring the President. Why, the students want you to just get out-to pick up and leave Southeast Asia!" He reached for a globe...
They were on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., doing something they'd never done before. A huge group of Harvard students. faculty members, and several employees were in the city to lobby Senators and Congressmen in hopes that they'd support the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment to halt appropriations for the war in Southeast Asia...
About 50 students a day have trekked to Arlington, ringing door bells and ask residents to sign petitions supporting the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to cut off funds for the war. The canvassers are also seeking signat?? for a petition supporting a bill proposed in the Masachusetts legislature which would place the Indochina war issue on a referendum...
...National Student Referendum Committee, a group operating out of Wigglesworth, conducted a referendum in dining halls and the Yard today totest student support for the McGovern Hatfield amendment...
What is to be done? The Senate will consider two bills in the next week. Each asks for a withholding of military funds from the war. The stronger measure is the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to the military appropriations bill. It has virtually no chance of passing. The weaker amendment. which gives the President more time to withdraw the troops, is the Church Cooper amendment. Liberals in the Senate hope that when the McGovern-Hatfield bill is defeated the Church Cooper amendment may pass...