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...Responding to a question which asked why each candidate thought he was different from all others, Muskie said in effect that the three liberal Senators on the podium-himself. McGovern and Vance Hartke--all had held similar positions on the war because each had voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. But what Muskie tactfully ignored is the fact that the other two Senators, particularly McGovern, have ardently opposed the war since its inception, while he curiously did not have the foresight to malign America's involvement until it had become a Republican...
...been a strong proponent of the war during the Johnson Administration, and had even been the first speaker for the pro-war, pro-Administration Vietnam plank at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968. All this didn't matter, Muskie tried to tell us: all three had voted for Tonkin, so all three stood similarly...
...speech before a crowd of 1000 at Boston University, McCloskey said that Nixon disregarded the Constitutional separation of powers when he ordered air support for Cambodian troops, two weeks after Congress had rescinded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...
Former Alaskan Senator Ernest Gruening '07, one of two Senators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964, told the crowd that the only hope to end the war "lies in the people and in demonstrations like this...
...stirred up organized protest only in Portland. There the Auto Dealers Association decided to withdraw, for 30 days, their classified ads in the Newhouse-owned Oregonian and its sister paper, the Oregon Journal. "Not that we were trying to intimidate or look for power," explained Chevrolet Dealer Ron Tonkin. "We just wanted to be heard...