What is important is that leading u. S. Senators were siding with the end the war faction. They were doing it in a very cool and calm and rational and thoughtful way. This was a very Important Movement for the Antiwar Movement. You had not seen this before. What is your impression . Your first reaction to the tone of this thing . It is a very serious piece. , theyare very earnest men are both republicans and democrats, moderate and liberal. People who come to the conclusion that United States should not be fighting in this war. They are trying to use the legislative branch to bring the war to an end. Creating a bit of a constitutional clash with the president of the United States. Those are all very prominent. I knew them and work with them. They look much younger in these pictures. They are really earnest about what they are saying. They had to fight to get that Television Program in the first place. They made the most of it. Article one, section eight of the constitution reads as fol
But no appropriations of money shall be for a longer term than two years. Our amendment to end the war fulfills the obligations that we have over the constitution. One governor hadfield sometimes refer to who were they and what with this really have done if it passed . To back up just a little bit, the president Richard Nixon had announced in november of 1969 the vietnamese Asian Program to remove american troops from vietnam. The thought at that point was maybe this was the end of the war. It was cooling down. Actually, it was good for me because the vietnam is a shun, they were not sending supply clerks to vietnam. I was sent to pearl harbor and hawaii instead. A lot of us breathed a sigh of relief. But instead of the war going down and reducing it seemed to increase, escalate. It seemed to be getting more violent. It seemed to be spreading into the rest of indochina and cambodia. That is why senator cooper and frank church introduced the Cooper Church amendment to stop any american
Was that leading u. S. Senators were sidiing essentially with te antiwar faction and an amendment to end the war were appealing to the public, and doing it in a very cool and calm and rational and thoughtful way, and this was a very important moment for the Antiwar Movement, that it wasnt just in the streets. It was in the senate and the congress as well. You hadnt seen this before, whats your impressions, your first reaction to just the tone of this thing . Its a very serious piece. These are very earnest men who are both republicans and democrats, moderates and liberals, people who have come to the conclusion that the United States should not be fighting in this war, that the tragedy has mounted so much over the years that they have to and they are trying to use the legislati legislative branch to bring the war to an end, in a sense creating a bit of a constitutional clash with the president of the United States. Its a very moving piece, and those are all very prominent senators. I k
Overcorrected and eisenhower was there with him. He thought that the end of colonial was a destructive hurricane. As we write the book and that helped lead to the disaster, the vietnam war, where francis was dealing with counterinsurgency for the better part of a decade since the end of World War Two. It go well. They make a lot of mistakes that the American Army will later repeat pretty frighteningly. And so by the time frank church is in the senate and he visits vietnam in 1962, its pretty clear that the saigon government is the us military has supporting and abetting them. Britain and france refused to help because there supposed to be a treaty. The geneva accords, that would have united vietnam through an election. Ho chi minh probably would have won was incredibly popular. He was a communist communists were killing rival groups. So there was already a civil war brewing. Think there was going to be blood . The united just made it worse. And thats so. Frank church visits vietnam in
He a member of the team that won the 22 pulitzer for explanatory for coverage of the september attacks. And then with a colleague he shared that 26 pulitzer for national for coverage of the nsa domestic spying program. Hes also written four books a about americas fight over abortion, about the cias final showdown with the kgb, about the cia and the george w bush, and about the costs, consequences of americas war on terror and first dozen years or so, after 911, currently his Senior National security correspondent for the intercept his son, tom its been a journalist for 15, 16 years. And hes worked for various news organizations covered and covered a wide of local and national topics, including National Security and u. S. Politics. His current focuses on in the last honest man, they look back at the life of former democratic senator frank of idaho, who was one of the most consequential lawmakers of the 20th century. He served in the from the late 1950s through the sixties and seventies