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...Kent," says Aide Ted Van Dyk. "All calmness on the outside-serene-but when crisis strikes, it's into the phone booth." He has other useful traits as well. Accused at a University of Wisconsin rally of being a warmonger for voting for passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, McGovern did not turn peevish as Muskie has done in the face of similar baiting. Instead, McGovern asked that those who believed the charge raise their hands; when less than six hands shot up, McGovern moved on to other matters. He has successfully overcome his image...
...Vietnamese regulars were driving straight through the DMZ into Quang Tri province to join another 20,000 troops already in the area. By Monday, said one awed CINCPAC officer, "it looked like the Rhine River campaign" of World War II. One column drove south along the beaches of the Tonkin Gulf, despite a heavy barrage laid down by U.S. destroyers offshore. Taking advantage of heavy rains and low clouds, which limited air strikes, other units rolled down French-built Highway 1 aboard Soviet-built tanks and trucks towing antiaircraft or artillery pieces...
...Umbrella. The one option that was available was air power, and Nixon made the most of it (see page 39). For the first time since 1968, four aircraft carriers were on station in the Tonkin Gulf; a fifth, the Midway, was on its way. Also sent to the area were a squadron of F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bombers and about 20 B-52s, which joined the 80 already operating from bases in Thailand and Guam. Later, two squadrons of F-4 Phantoms flew to Danang from bases in Okinawa, Japan and Korea. The additions meant a jump...
...piece also tries to imply that Senator Muskie has claimed that because both he and Senator McGovern voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution their positions on the War have always been the same. In fact, Senator Muskie has never claimed that he and McGovern have the same records on the War and has repeatedly in this campaign publicly admitted that his own position was wrong on the War prior to 1969. All Senator Muskie has contended is that since that time he and George McGovern have not significantly differed in their approach to ending our involvement in Indochina...
This kind of chicanery didn't take with McGovern. He noted his own long-standing opposition to the war, and advised Muskie that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed because the Johnson Administration had wrongly and intentionally told the Senate that American ships had been attacked. Whether this exchange between Muskie and McGovern had any effect on Tuesday's returns is not really important. What is important is that Muskie had the nerve to attempt this blatant bit of obfuscation...