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OCR Page 1 of 134From the Office of Sen
r Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.)
105-M.
For Release: P. M. Newspapers, Tuesday, September 26, 1967
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PARTIAL TEXT OF REMARKS BY SENATOR CLIFFORD P. CASE ON THE
TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION, PREPARED FOR DELIVERY ON THE SENATE
FLOOR, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1967
For those observers of the passing scene to whom politics is little more
than a cheap game in which one man or one group tries to advantage itself at the
expense of another, the distress of Congress over the Administration's continuing
misuse of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution means only that a crafty President has again
put it over on the stupid members of Congress.
How stupid you members are and were, they say, not to have known that
Lyndon Johnson would extract the last ounce of advantage from the situation he so
cleverly put you in!
What this glib view so conveniently ignores, however, is that the American
political system requires mutual confidence and trust between the President and
the Congress, just as it requires confidence on the part of the people in the
President and the Congress.
This is important in tranquil times, It is essential in times of stress like
the present. Yet, in somber fact, the Johnson Administration's handling of the
war in Vietnam since 1964 has produced a crisis of confidence.
The basic anxiety of Americans, in and out of Congress, by no means rests
solely on the rising casualty lists or the increased money cost of the war or its
diversion of resources and energy from urgent domestic needs--critical as these
are.
The people's anxiety, and that of Congress too, springs perhaps in greatest
part from a growing conviction that the Administration is not telling them the
truth.
I have pointed out before that the Administration's continuing assurances of
progress in Vietnam simply do not square with the cold fact that toward our basic
objective--th of creating an independent self-governing society supported by its
citizens- there has been no significant progress at all.
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