Senator Wayne Morse says no to Vietnam 1964

Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon who along with Senator E. Gruening of Alaska were the only two Senators to vote against the Vietnam war no congressmen voted against it.
Senator Morse was the original maverick Senator he was a two term Republican then after Nixon was selected to be Vice President he bcame an independent for 1 term then he was a democrat for 3 terms. Other congressmen and senators later turned against the war or were elcted later on planks of anti-war but the only originals who were against from the very beginning were Morse and Gruening

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[avedron]

Tragic how history repeats itself.

[beatles1000]

Too bad we did not listen to Morse and George Ball.

[MenwithHill]

@RamsesReturns Things twisted very much. Democrats were a very southern party until the 1970's. They were the party of the Segregationist and the Racist, the "Dixiecrats". But things have changed and position are now on the opposite.

[RamsesReturns]

A time when democrats were more republican than republicans today.

[nakedfrenzy6241]

Excellent film

I like it

[cockyhemi]

@JgarfbiHoover What about Capitalism? Isn't that an ism?  Lol!

[MeIsSully]

And he was right!

[kakompo]

History is on your side Senator Morse and history has proven you right. . rest in peace. You were an upright man!

[kreendurron]

Ron Paul

[efrem1]

@hyperseauton Don't forget Ron Paul.

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster P1 "It served no positive purpose" Probably true for us Americans safe here but for SE Asia?

~ It stopped the Communist advance into country's all over that region from Thailand to Australia

~ It spurred us to new technological heights (Stealth Jets, Pav-tac Bombing, Cruise Missiles, ect)

~ It reaffimed JFK's Cold War stance that the USA was, is & will be for the forseeable future the world's preminent insurance against all the ism's in the world (Facism, Communism, etc)

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster P2 If u disagree w/the above take into consideration these counter-intuative truism's

~ The only price freedom will accept is blood. It will accept no other form of payment

~ Aggression unchecked invites further aggression then all hell breaks out

~ Thoughts that make us feel that we know something intuitively are easy to experience but notoriously difficult explaining (Ex.Religion: There are things known, unknown, will never be known, for they're meant for God only to know)