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Cold Cliches. At the end of the first day, prepackaged rhetoric gave way to poignance as Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell asked if it "might be conceivable" that many U.S. allies are correct in their doubts about U.S. strategy. "Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches on one's knees. One cannot be eternally dogmatic about them...
...neither side wore holes in its trou sers. Neither Rusk nor his adversaries, who now dominate the 19-man committee, had new ideas to offer. The handful of members who still support the Administration could do little more than deal in cliches-including the threat of "monolithic" Communism as cold as the marble that lines the hearing chamber...
...Administration might order a major increase in U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam without any consultations with Congress. "Do I understand you to be saying," Fulbright asked, "that you have no intention to consult with this committee and Congress, that you are going to do as you please?" Rusk said that the Administration would con sult with "appropriate" members of Congress about any important decisions concerning...
Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...
...cool, controlled advocate during more than ten hours of grilling, Rusk assured the committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...