The Vietnam hearings (fülszöveg)
The great debate on American policy in Vietnam received its most significant airing when the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations recently held public hearings on this subject. The television networks provided complete coverage and, together with the other news media, brought the great issues of war and peace and the determination of national policy into the homes of millions of Americans. In this special edition of the hearings the complete statements of the major witnesses – Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, former Ambassador George F. Kennan, and former Ambassador to Vietnam General Maxwell D. Taylor – appear along with major portions of their testimony.
Of the resulting clash of ideas Senator Fulbright has remarked: "Members of Congress and citizens at large do not have the facts or the background to tell the Commander-in-Chief how to wage war, but they do have the capacity to pass judgment on whether the massive deployment and destruction of their men and their wealth seems to serve their over-all interests as a nation. This is what democratic government is all about. If the American people as a whole, and speaking through their elected representatives, do not have the capacity in the large theater of world relationships to know what is good for them, then we should abandon the democratic system."
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