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...refusal had nothing to do with the war in Southeast Asia. Irons first sent in his draft card in 1961, long before Tonkin bay, even before Diem's murder. The House Un-American Activities Committee, although not as powerful as it had been in the mid-fifties, was still an active force. The civil rights movement was only just beginning to gain momentum. Most students were still more interested in panty raids than in politics...
...many shots did North Vietnamese vessels fire at U.S. ships in the incident President Johnson cited to justify the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...
...chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, secretary of state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin should have been the task force's destination. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported--the State Department has denied it--that Kissinger's proposal had to be overruled by Ford himself, on the grounds that it would "needlessly" arouse concern in the United States. When...
...Congress is interfering with Kissinger's flexibility, that is a good thing. It should interfere some more. His flexibility unleashed the Christmas bombing--apparently almost exclusively to reassure Thieu that the American government's attitude remained as inflexible as ever-just as it attempted to unleash a new Tonkin Gulf incident last week. Kissinger calls "flexibility" what other people call "war crimes." There have been too many of those in Indochina already...
...President Roosevelt in 1939, Gruening forced absentee salmon and gold interests to pay their fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully for Alaska's statehood, he went to the Senate in 1959 where, five years later, only he and Wayne Morse voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing U.S. action in the Viet Nam War. Unseated in 1968 by Mike Gravel, Gruening at 81 retired to the Nation and continued stumping for liberal causes...