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  • "RE HANDLING OF THE MORSE AMENDMENT TO RESCIND THE PRESIDENT'S AUTHORITY IN VIETNAM"
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS TALK WITH RICHARD RUSSELL ON HANDLING OF WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION, EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT MOTION TO TABLE AMENDMENT MIGHT IMPLY DILUTION OF RESOLUTION AND UNDERMINE HIS AUTHORITY AS COMMANDER
  • SENATE HANDLING OF WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; LBJ DISCUSSES ADVANTAGE OF TABLING MORSE'S AMENDMENT, SUGGESTS LONG MAKE STATEMENT THAT TABLING THE AMENDMENT LEAVES RESOLUTION AND LBJ'S AUTHORITY IN VIETNAM UNDILUTED
  • LBJ APOLOGIZES FOR DELAY; LONG THANKS LBJ FOR INVITATION TO TRUMAN LIBRARY TOMORROW, DISCUSSES WAYNE MORSE'S SPEECH CRITICIZING VIETNAM POLICY, ASKS WH HELP IN WRITING SPEECH TO ANSWER MORSE; LBJ SUGGESTS LONG WORK WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY; ROBERT LANDRY
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT SPEECH BY WAYNE MORSE ON VIETNAM, COPY OF SPEECH SENT TO JUANITA ROBERTS IN ARMY ENVELOPE
  • MCNAMARA'S SPEECH ON VIETNAM NEXT WEEK; LBJ SUGGESTS MCNAMARA MEET WITH WAYNE MORSE, ERNEST GRUENING; LBJ ASKS FOR BRIEF STATEMENT ON VIETNAM POLICY, EVALUATION OF POSITIONS OF USSR, CHINA, UK, FRANCE; COST-CUTTING PROGRAM IN DOD; MILITARY BASE
  • RESTON'S STORY ON RFK OFFERING TO GO TO VIETNAM; US INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM: OPINIONS OF RESTON, LBJ, MIKE MANSFIELD, FRANK CHURCH, ERNEST GRUENING, WAYNE MORSE; LBJ REFLECTS ON ACTIONS AND ADVICE OF DWIGHT EISENHOWER; DE GAULLE ON NEUTRALIZATION
  • HHH REPORTS ON HIS AND MIKE MANSFIELD'S MEETINGS WITH ALLEN ELLENDER AND WAYNE MORSE ON PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR SENATE HANDLING OF SUPPLEMENTAL MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS BILL; LBJ THANKS HHH, ADVISES HIM ON HANDLING BILL; MICHAEL FEIGHAN
  • MANSFIELD REPORTS ON AGREEMENTS WITH WAYNE MORSE, FRANK CHURCH, GEORGE AIKEN ON HANDLING SUPPLEMENTAL MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS BILL; LBJ TELLS MANSFIELD THAT ROBERT MCNAMARA CAN TESTIFY IN SENATE FOLLOWING HOUSE TESTIMONY
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH UK; MEETINGS WITH HAROLD WILSON, OTHER UK OFFICIALS, ITALIAN, GERMAN, JAPANESE LEADERS; MLF; DE GAULLE'S RECENT SPEECH; EFFECT OF US VIETNAM PROTESTS ON ENEMY; COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN PROTEST MOVEMENT; WAYNE
  • LBJ'S RECOVERY FROM GALL BLADDER SURGERY; MANSFIELD'S UPCOMING TRIP TO VIETNAM; PRESS LEAKS BY SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE STAFF ABOUT ALLOCATION OF WH PLANE FOR MANSFIELD'S TRIP BUT NOT FOR FULBRIGHT'S OR WAYNE MORSE'S TRIPS; EAST-WEST TRADE
  • LBJ READS GOODPASTER'S REPORT OF HIS BRIEFING OF EISENHOWER ON VIETNAM, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FORD EXPRESSES SUPPORT OF B-52 RAID, SPEAKS BRIEFLY TO THOMAS DEWEY; LBJ JOKES WITH FORD ABOUT TRADING MELVIN LAIRD FOR WAYNE MORSE
  • BUNDY ASKS LBJ'S PERMISSION TO INCLUDE STAFF AT STATE, DOD IN WORK ON STUDIES; DRAFT OF LBJ'S UN ANNIVERSARY SPEECH; WAYNE MORSE MEMO ON VIETNAM; RFK'S SPEECH; IMPLEMENTATION, RELEASE OF GILPATRIC REPORT ON NON-PROLIFERATION; ADRIAN FISHER; PRESS
  • SOUTH VIETNAM'S REQUEST TO CARRY OUT RIBICOFF PLAN FOR UN SUPERVISION OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE ELECTIONS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ELECTION; POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS BY USSR, FRANCE TO RIBICOFF PLAN; WAYNE MORSE'S CRITICISM OF U THANT; COMPARISON WITH KOREAN WAR
  • STATUS OF BILLS; WAYNE MORSE, AIRLINE LABOR DISPUTE; DIRKSEN'S CALL FOR BIPARTISAN VIETNAM MEETING; RICHARD HELMS AS REPLACEMENT FOR WILLIAM "RED" RABORN AS CIA DIRECTOR; CIA WATCHDOG COMMITTEE; MANSFIELD'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; BOMBING PROGRAM; PEACE
  • LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT CONTACTS BETWEEN DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMUNIST BLOC COUNTRIES, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS; ABBA SCHWARTZ; WAYNE MORSE; INFLUENCE OF USSR, ANATOLY DOBRYNIN ON CONGRESSIONAL VIETNAM CRITICS; LEAKS TO JOSEPH ALSOP
  • ARTHUR GOLDBERG; LBJ'S VIEWS ON UN; WH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING; WAYNE MORSE'S VIETNAM RESOLUTION; LBJ READS FROM MEMO ON FULBRIGHT'S VIEWS; EDWIN REISCHAUER; RAY CLINE; WILLIAM "RED" RABORN; MANSFIELD REPORT; J. EDGAR HOOVER'S REPORTS ON VIETNAM
  • LBJ THANKS STONE FOR VIETNAM EDITORIALS, ASKS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT; RFK'S CALL FOR COALITION GOVT WITH VIET CONG; WAYNE MORSE'S EFFORT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; SENATE OPPOSITION TO APPROPRIATIONS BILL; DEATH OF MERRIMAN SMITH'S SON
  • LBJ ASKS LONG FOR HEAD COUNT IN SENATE ON WAYNE MORSE'S RESOLUTION TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION, ASKS LONG TO FIND OUT EDWARD KENNEDY'S REACTION TO WH BRIEFING TODAY, NOTES LACK OF QUESTIONS BY DOVES AT BRIEFING
  • SYMINGTON REPORTS ON EFFORT TO VOTE OUT FOREIGN AID BILL IN FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE THIS MORNING; FULBRIGHT'S REQUEST THAT HHH, MCNAMARA MEET WITH COMMITTEE; WAYNE MORSE'S COMMENTS; LOW ATTENDANCE AT ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION AT UNIVERSITY
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HANDLING OF WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION, ASKS MCGEE TO MAKE STATEMENT THAT MOTION TO TABLE AMENDMENT DOES NOT IMPLY DILUTION OF LBJ'S AUTHORITY IN VIETNAM; CONCERNS OF US OFFICERS IN VIETNAM ABOUT SENATE
  • SENATE HANDLING OF WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT REAFFIRMING HIS AUTHORITY, WANTS STATEMENT MADE PRIOR TO VOTE TO TABLE AMENDMENT, READS JOHN MCCORMACK'S STATEMENT TODAY SUPPORTING VIETNAM
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF SENATE VOTE ON WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; MIKE MANSFIELD; FARRIS BRYANT
  • LONG'S REMARKS IN SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE HEARINGS ANSWERING SENATE CRITICS OF VIETNAM POLICY; WAYNE MORSE; WILLIAM FULBRIGHT; ALBERT GORE'S RESPONSE TO LONG'S SPEECH; SENATE DEBATE ON TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; JAMES GAVIN; GEORGE KENNAN
  • LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE ACTION ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL, TELLS BEIRNE STRIKE IS NOT NATIONAL EMERGENCY; RFK'S, JOSEPH CLARK'S SUPPORT FOR ROBERT GRIFFIN'S 60-DAY PLAN; ADMINISTRATION'S PREFERENCE FOR WAYNE MORSE'S PROPOSAL
  • SIGNING OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT; PENDING BILLS; EDITH GREEN, WAYNE MORSE AND HANDLING OF HIGHER EDUCATION BILL; IMMIGRATION, FARM BILLS; GERALD FORD'S PRESS LEAKS ON UK STERLING CRISIS; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL'S ABSENCE; FAIR EMPLOYMENT, MINIMUM WAGE BILLS
  • SENATE CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; RFK'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; O'BRIEN'S COMPARISON OF RFK, JFK; POSITIVE REACTION TO O'BRIEN'S VIETNAM SPEECH; LBJ TELLS O'BRIEN TO TALK TO DIRKSEN, MANSFIELD ON PASSING VIETNAM BILLS, HANDLING WAYNE MORSE AMENDMENT
  • LBJ ASKS SMATHERS' ADVICE ON APPOINTMENT FOR FARRIS BRYANT; BRYANT'S CIVIL RIGHTS RECORD; WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, SENATE VOTE ON WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; POSSIBLE JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR BRYANT; RFK, EDWARD KENNEDY'S
  • will be different after The key disarmament people in the S nate have lost some strength -­ Joe Clark, Wayne Morse, Senator Carlson. Ambassador Wiggins: Ratification of the NPT is an embarrassment. All ask if we are going to ratify it. The non-nuclear group wonders
  • nowhere. and mine. It got two votes: Wayne Morsels Dick Russell attacked it violently and said it was practically . . Of course, you know, in retrospect the whole LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Resolution; Wayne Morse and Alan Cranston
  • candidates? G: That is correct. a candidate. Wayne Morse, to begin with, said he would not be We had a law at that time that you had to sign an affidavit that you were not a candidate. Otherwise your name automatically appeared in what we have
  • Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell
  • in that capacity, which has existed in this country ever since, I guess, the Civil War. Really about the only black friend he had was Hobart Taylor, who at that time was assistant prosecutor of Wayne County in charge of the Civil Division--who is a Texan
  • that only Wayne Morse can make. I've heard them over the years, heard him stand up there and accuse the President of the United States of treason. These kinds of things begin to bother you after awhile. But he took this on as a personal fight against
  • Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO
  • . At any rate as far as my relations with him were concerned, I was on the real ''black list" all through the winter of '64- '65. classify me with Wayne Morse. He used to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • were calling for I didn't have any insight on it and I voted for the resolution and I thought [Wayne] Morse and [Ernest] Gruening were just being sort of prima donnas, in a wa~ in voting against it. G: When did your own concern about Vietnam begin
  • for censure, but I know that he was opposed to it. He later talked to me about censuring Wayne Morse for something that he said, and I remember Lyndon urged that people not consider it. He believed in the tradition of the Senate. He was pretty much a senator's
  • , increasingly, and I think understandably, Lyndon became personally indignant against the doves of his own party. He felt, I can understand, a Republican who might do it for political reasons, but why should he get stabbed in the back by the [Wayne] Morses
  • . isolationist sentiment. behind the program. There got to be a quasi- It was hard even to get internationalists, They came along but--for example, Hayne Morse, who sponsored it in the Senate put me--as he had every right to do and did a good j ob-- t.:hrough
  • ; John Rooney and the Appropriations Committee create problems for State Department programs; characterizes Wayne Hays, John Brademas, John Tunney, Donald Fraser, Peter Frelinghuysen, Benjamin Rosenthal, Albert Quie; Patsy Mink, Wayne Morse, George
  • from doing anything even if there was anything we could do -- which we cannot at this time." - - "All the United Nations can do is to debate and deplore the situation... " Senator Wayne Morse demonstrated again that a totalitarian state fears
  • , in the country_ And I haven't attended conventions. conventions and one Republican. I attended only two Democratic That's the time when Wayne Morse--I asked him how in the world does he belong to the Republican party. And you remember a few years later
  • by presidential veto." It depends on how you approach it, but Douglas never did really get much legislation passed because he and Wayne Morse just wouldn't compromise. They worked hard but they didn't know how to compromise and work. The rest of the senators were