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ON FEBRUARY 9 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Senator Charles McC. Mathias, a freshman Republican from Maryland, argued for the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. His own measure (SJ 166) would accomplish this as well as repeal "the mortmain of past Congressional resolutions that have been interpreted...
Last Wednesday in the Senate, Mathias boldly accused the Administration of turning Laos into "an arena for the repetition of the mistakes of our Vietnamese involvement." His colleagues quickly joined the attack. The victories of North Vietnam last week on the Plaine des Jarres had set off much nervous growling...
A MUTINOUS Senate is trying to recast the conduct of U. S. foreign policy. Vietnam has been the catalyst for defining a new relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Growing bolder each year, the Senate has taken tentative steps to curtail effectively the disposal of American troops overseas-first...
IF THE Senate wishes to assert itself, it can begin, as Senator Mathias has suggested, by repealing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and encouraging the President to seek a political solution to the war. At present the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes an almost boundless extension of the war into...
Other Cold War Resolutions make similar grants of authority. The Formosa Resolution of 1955, for example, still gives the President the legal right to go to war with Communist China in defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Progressive though they are, the repeals advocated by Mathias demonstrate the negative character of...