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...willful deception of the American people" by the selective disclosure of facts. An old friend of Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, he has five times attempted to communicate his feelings to the President, once in a hand-delivered letter. He was a House co-author of the bill repealing the Tonkin Gulf resolution. Last fall, having lost faith in both personal appeal and legislative action, he decided on a primary challenge as the only remaining means of influencing the President to end the war. He also drew wide attention when he endorsed discussion of impeachment as a justifiable means "to bring...
When asked what he and the Democratic Party had done to end the war in the past, Bayh said, "Not enough. Hindsight is better than foresight, but nobody's hands are clean." Bayh traced responsibility for the war to the Senate's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1965 when "we gave the President all the power he could need...
SENATE liberals have a lot to answer for. The Senate is the only body of government capable of standing up to the President on the war. Yet with few exceptions, Senators have had dismal records in opposing the war. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Rseolution in 1965 which enabled President Johnson to expand the war. They watered down the Cooper-Church amendment and voted down the Hatfield-McGovern plan. They continue to authorize and appropriate funds for the war with scarcely a whisper of opposition...
...opposition to the war increased, however, many legislators came to regret their original votes. This month, Congress quietly rescinded the Tonkin measure-tucking the provision, ironically, into a military aid bill. Last week, with similar discretion, Richard Nixon signed the repealer, and the resolution receded into history...
Nixon has long felt that the document was redundant, and that as Commander in Chief he already has all the authority summed up in the Tonkin resolution. Whatever the last word from constitutional experts may be on that point, the resolution had become pragmatically moot because U.S. forces are gradually withdrawing anyway. Its role in history may be not only that it further embroiled the U.S. in Viet Nam and raised loud voices of dissent at home, but that it probably marked the last time that the U.S. Congress would ever hand the President such a heady carte blanche with...