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This is a list of U.S. senators and representatives who opposed the Vietnam War. This includes those who initially supported the war, but later changed their stance to a strong opposition to it. This includes those who initially supported the war, but later changed their stance to a strong opposition to it.
Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon.Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.
A Vietnam War veteran throwing his medal at the US Capitol An anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington D.C., on April 24, 1971 A rally in support of the Vietnamese people at the Moskvitch factory in 1973. April 23 – Vietnam veterans threw away over 700 medals on the West Steps of the Capitol building. The next day, anti-war organizers claimed ...
"The Christian Conservative Who Opposed the Vietnam War". History News Network. Berman, William (1988). William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist. Ohio State University. ISBN 0873383516. Ceplair, Larry (Spring 2012). "The Foreign Policy of Senator Wayne L. Morse". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 113 (1): 6– 63.
As a senator, McGovern was an example of modern American liberalism. He became most known for his outspoken opposition to the growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He staged a brief nomination run in the 1968 presidential election as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.
This category is for legislative measures intended to curtail or end the Vietnam War, and for Congressional hearings which questioned or opposed the war. Pages in category "Congressional opposition to the Vietnam War"
Twenty GOP senators voted against legislation approved by the Senate late Friday that would bolster Social Security benefits for over 2 million American citizens working in a range of occupations.
Fulbright's opposition to the war in Vietnam took root, and beginning in 1966, he chaired public Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the conduct of the war. Fulbright invited President Johnson to appear before the Committee in January 1966 to explain why America was fighting in Vietnam, an offer that the President refused.