Debating Vietnam : Fulbright, Stennis, and their senate hearings
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Debating Vietnam : Fulbright, Stennis, and their senate hearings
（Vietnam : America in the war years / series editor, David L. Anderson）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2006
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ISBN 9780742544352
Description
In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Joseph A. Fry provides the first comparative analysis of these inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.
The Senators' shared aim was to alter the Johnson administration's strategy and bring an end to the war-but from dramatically different perspectives. Fulbright hoped to pressure Johnson to halt escalation and seek a negotiated settlement, while Stennis wanted to prompt the President to bomb North Vietnam more aggressively and secure a victorious end to the war. Publicized and televised, these hearings added fuel to the fire of national debate over Vietnam policy and captured the many arguments of both hawks and doves.
Fry details the dramatic confrontations between the Senate committees and the administration spokesmen, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, and he probes the success of congressional efforts to influence Vietnam policy. Ultimately, Fry shows how the Fulbright and Stennis hearings provide vivid insight into the debate over why the United States was involved in Vietnam and how the war should be conducted.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Hearings
Chapter 2: Fulbright and the SFRC Challenge Johnson
Chapter 3: The SFRC Interrogates Taylor and Rusk
Chapter 4: Stennis and the SPIS Challenge Johnson
Chapter 5: The SPIS Interrogates McNamara
Chapter 6: Fulbright, Stennis, and the End of the War
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: pbk ISBN 9780742544369
Description
In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Joseph A. Fry provides the first comparative analysis of these inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.
The Senators' shared aim was to alter the Johnson administration's strategy and bring an end to the war-but from dramatically different perspectives. Fulbright hoped to pressure Johnson to halt escalation and seek a negotiated settlement, while Stennis wanted to prompt the President to bomb North Vietnam more aggressively and secure a victorious end to the war. Publicized and televised, these hearings added fuel to the fire of national debate over Vietnam policy and captured the many arguments of both hawks and doves.
Fry details the dramatic confrontations between the Senate committees and the administration spokesmen, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, and he probes the success of congressional efforts to influence Vietnam policy. Ultimately, Fry shows how the Fulbright and Stennis hearings provide vivid insight into the debate over why the United States was involved in Vietnam and how the war should be conducted.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Hearings
Chapter 2: Fulbright and the SFRC Challenge Johnson
Chapter 3: The SFRC Interrogates Taylor and Rusk
Chapter 4: Stennis and the SPIS Challenge Johnson
Chapter 5: The SPIS Interrogates McNamara
Chapter 6: Fulbright, Stennis, and the End of the War
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