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RESIGNATION IN PROTEST by EDWARD WEISBAND...
...Though plenty of public opposition to U.S. policy in Viet Nam developed, the dissidents were deprived both of essential information-which the Government said it alone possessed and could not release for reasons of security-and of a respectable Establishment figure to rally around. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Weisband and Franck claim, was one of the insiders long tortured by doubts about the war. If he had resigned and openly turned against U.S. Viet Nam policy the formidable mental powers that he had originally used to analyze the war, the fighting might have ended far sooner...
...protest over Viet Nam policy just because I disagreed with it? My main responsibility and my principal interest was Western Europe." Yet Ball was the No. 2 man in the State Department. If he and others in powerful positions had made a public issue over their opposition, Franck and Weisband contend, the antiwar movement might not have had to take its case into the streets...
...Weisband and Franck are, respectively, a professor of political science and a professor of law. Their analysis of the problem is more convincing than the cure they suggest-a constitutional amendment requiring not only that Cabinet members be picked exclusively from Congress but keep their congressional seats even while serving the Administration. This is similar to the British Cabinet system under which ministers are also Members of Parliament. If they leave the Cabinet, they remain M.P.s with a prestigious forum in which to plead any case, and may also be looked upon as leading critics of government policy...
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