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“Come Home, America”: The Story of George McGovern
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…The Senate chamber was nearly empty on the afternoon of September 24, 1963. George McGovern, the young South Dakotan who had the floor, could have counted his…”
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Congress Must Draw the Line: Senator Frank Church and the Opposition to the Vietnam War and the Imperial Presidency: Senator Frank Church and Opposition to the Vietnam War and the Imperial Presidency
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…The career of Senator Frank Church (D-ID) provides a unique perspective for understanding the development of opposition to the Vietnam War and the…”
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Richard Nixon, Congress, and the War in Vietnam, 1969–1974
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…Domestic divisions over the war in Vietnam helped Richard M. Nixon win the presidency in 1968. Paradoxically, continuing discord over the course of American…”
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World War II, Congress, and the Roots of Postwar American Foreign Policy
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…In America's Longest War and subsequent works, historian George Herring has argued that the assumptions that underlay America's decision to wage cold war…”
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A Delicate Balance: John Sherman Cooper and the Republican Opposition to the Vietnam War
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…In 1969, after Richard Nixon became president of the United States, he and other Republicans liked to complain of the mess they had inherited in Vietnam. “The…”
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The Progressive Dissent: Ernest Gruening and Vietnam
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…On August 6, 1964, the seventy-seven-year-old junior senator from Alaska, Ernest Gruening, delivered a brief address in the Senate chambers. The upper chamber…”
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Anti-Imperialism in U.S. Foreign Relations
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…What role has anti-imperialism played in U.S. foreign relations? While it is safe to say that it has been an important phenomenon, a more precise appraisal of…”
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The Reluctant “Volunteer”: The Origins of Senator Albert A. Gore's Opposition to the Vietnam War
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…“In our differences over Vietnam, we have let ourselves become hypnotized into self delusion,” Senator Albert A. Gore of Tennessee wrote in 1970, “We have…”
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Friendly Fire: Lyndon Johnson and the Challenge to Containment
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…Great legislators do not make great presidents. In fact, they rarely make presidents of any kind. The greatest senators and representatives in American history…”
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Dixie's Dove: J. William Fulbright, the Vietnam War, and the American South
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…During the two years following his shepherding of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution through the United States Senate in 1964, J. William Fulbright of Arkansas,…”
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Introduction
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…Political and diplomatic history have fallen into disrepute of late. They are, critics proclaim, concerned with power, elites, and white males, both living and…”
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Advice and Dissent: Mike Mansfield and the Vietnam War
Published in Vietnam and the American Political Tradition (24-02-2003)“…Mike Mansfield came to Congress in 1943 as the United States put aside isolationism to forge military commitments around the globe. Part of a generation shaped…”
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Index
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Introduction
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Friendly Fire
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Dixie’s Dove
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