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... See moreRussell was for twenty-six years either Chairman or dominant member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw the battle readiness of the nation’s far-flung legions and armadas. As senators of Rome had insisted that, regardless of the cost, the legions must be kept at full complement because the peace and stability of the known world—th
The son of the man who had said, “You can always be honorable,” had what a friend calls “a monumental sense of honor,” and it merged with his monumental patriotism. He regarded his responsibility for America’s fighting men as a sacred trust. Once, after his Armed Services Committee had held a closed hearing on confidential military information, com
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
John Warner and Carl Levin provide a timeless example of such an investigation in their “Review of the Circumstances Surrounding the Ranger Raid on October 3–4, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia” (Warner and Levin 1995).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Alaska sent to the Senate Ernest Gruening, who had made a decades-long career of opposing racism and imperialism. In 1964 Gruening achieved national fame as one of only two congressmen—out of 506 voting—to oppose the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that led to the direct U.S. entry into the Vietnam War.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Wells—writing on behalf of President Johnson—asserted that “the industry which this legislation is designed to encourage is actually less than that which will be destroyed by the passage of this bill.” Furthermore, the veto included strong statements against the type of special interest fervor which characterized the wartime period and would largel
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Despite the last-minute passage of the Social Security bill, liberal antipathy to Johnson was as strong as ever—stronger, in fact: 1956 had, after all, been the year of the natural gas fight and the exemption of highway workers from the David-Bacon Act, and new revelations about Johnson’s relationship with Brown & Root. Under a headline that wa
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
