Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum, but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by Thomas Jefferson who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives, and they are not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of decorum. I remember senator robert byrd who epitomized the sense of decorah, decorum, and when he was mad at somebody, he would pour
Dissent . It examines resistance to the war, with footage of demonstrations, interviews, and portions of a press conference by lyndon johnson. They raise their voices. They march against the government. Definessenters themselves with this kind of protest activity. Some go farther, burning Selective Service jobs and burning the american flag. Hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested. Which activities fall in the bonds of lawful dissent and which go beyond the rabbits go beyond the limits and the, lawless or rebellious . The wide world of people and events. This week, the vietnam war how much dissent . Here with that story, our abc correspondent. John hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war wonder how much dissent is too much . Those who oppose it asked themselves how far can i go in expressing this opposition . Question how much dissent is as old as socrates. It is as f
[chanting] they raise their voices, placards, and march against the government. Most dissenters of the vietnam war can find themselves at this protest activity. Some go farther, burning Selective Service cards. Flying viet cong batters and burning the american flag. During march demonstrations, hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested. Which activities fall under the bounds of lawful, justified dissent . Which go beyond the limits to become lawless and perhaps rebellious . Scope. The wide world of people and events. Partweek, the vietnam war, 107. How much dissent . Correspondentabc john scali. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war dont wonder how much dissent is too much. Askedwho op
You just try to put it behind you and go on with life. Did you have to deal with people who were critical of our involvement in vietnam or did you just not talk about it at all . Botheredvery few who most of them didnt know that i was involved in vietnam. We just went about life. I was never really in that kind of situation where people work trying were trying to attack me or anything like that. You enjoyed your time talking to the public . I loved it. Im think that the archives to this. My grandson and i were down at the wall the other day. It was a wonderful experience for them. I ran across a man down there and he said where were you in vietnam and i said i was at camp he said, were you a bikini . I said yeah. How do you get that . He said, well, youre a pilot. He was in the three 61st 361st, the pink panthers. Both of our companies were in the central highlands. He supported the fourth division. We supported artillery units and the special forces out of pontoon. With the cobra unit
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas