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Senators McGovern and Hatfield belonged to an IPS-linked lobby called Members of Congress for Peace Through Law (MCPL) which supported the antiwar protestors during Dewey Canyon III and the subsequent NPAC and PCPJ demonstrations. During the April 24 March Against the War, the VVAW was addressed by MCPL Senators McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, and Philip Hart, along with two MCPL Congressmen. Meanwhile eight MCPL Congressmen addressed a PCPJ group.195
Political support also came from other antiwar Congressmen and Senators.196 Most notably, Senator Hart and Senator Claiborne Pell, a critic of US policy towards Cuba as well as Vietnam,197 hosted a VVAW fundraiser which was attended by Senator J. William Fulbright. Fulbright, who sat with Pell on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and shared Pell’s views on Cuba and Vietnam, had led Senate opposition to the Vietnam War since 1966,198 and during the fundraiser he invited Kerry to speak to his committee about war crimes.
Other members of Fulbright’s committee who listened to Kerry sympathetically during his testimony were Stuart Symington, who had been Dean Acheson’s favored choice for Democratic Presidential candidate in 1960,199 and Frank Church, who would soon lead a Congressional attack on the US intelligence community which was supported by the VVAW, the National Lawyers Guild, the Institute for Policy Studies, and Cuban and Soviet agents.200 ...197On Pell, see “Pell, Claiborne”, Current Biography, Bronx, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1972; “Pell, Claiborne de Borda, 1918-“, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000193 (September 24, 2004); Claiborne Pell, Power and Policy: America’s Role in World Affairs, New York: Norton, 1972; Powell, 252, 389.--------------see Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections via 32 posted on 05/01/2006 3:51:16 PM PDT by Fedora | To 29

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Thank you for your CLARITY, plasa.

Your outstanding historical Post No. 124 would be a great addition with us over on:

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

So, Come on Down..?

I will NEVER FORGET my happily striding into the Travis Air Force Base Terminal in April 1966 when returning home from the 1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War.

Only to see on a lobby TV the 1st FULLBRIGHT Foreign Relations Committee Vietnam War Hearings ...grilling away at Sec. of State DEAN RUSK and Sec. of Defense ROBERT McNAMARA about the Vietnam War.

A FULLBRIGHT Committee that later on had as one of its Staffers one...

...WILLIAM Jefferson CLINTON.

As Sen. FRANK CHURCH's Intelligence Committee went on to completely devastate our Nation's Intelligence capibilities ...after the post-WATERGATE Democrat Congressional Election Victory of 1974.

Something we are all paying very dearly for now..?

For...
...the Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.

NEVER FORGET

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