Word: sparkman
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...calling the confirmation of the Nixon letters "another cobblestone in a long road of deceit that has characterized our policy in Southeast Asia." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield supported a full investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. The new Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Democrat John Sparkman, asked the White House to turn over "all pertinent documents" on the subject. Indeed, there seemed little reason not to reveal any Nixon-Thieu letters...
Pincus also discussed the enormous influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the way it did under Fulbright's leadership...
Fulbright's successor as Foreign Relations Chairman will probably be Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, who usually follows the Administration's foreign policy. The committee's hearings will likely be much quieter in the days ahead than when Bill Fulbright was peering over his half-rimmed glasses and trying, in his own stubborn, professorial way, to tell the squirming representatives of a succession of American Presidents how the United States should conduct its foreign policy...
...John Sparkman (D-Ala.), the Democratic vice-presidential candidate...
...absence of their here, the Wallace-voters in Alabama gave Nixon 72 per cent of the popular vote and the state's nine electoral votes. Veteran Senator John Sparkman turned back a stiff challenge from former Postmaster General Winton (Red) Blount with surprising case...