John Symington person
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▶ 1:10:38
Senators Eugene McCarthy and Frank Church, among the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, depored the escalation. By February 25th, Symington, with Mansfield and Senators Charles Mathias, Albert Gore, John Sherman Copper, and Charles Perc…
▶ 1:14:39
Numbers of Americans in the country was put at 228 military, 388 government employees, and 424 contract personnel. In the Senate, Symington asked the administration to bring Godley back to testify in front of the committee, Foreign Relation…
▶ 1:21:46
Some of the people were disenchanted by that. In late 1971, Senator Symington sponsored an amendment to the appropriation bill that set up a ceiling of $350 million for all U.S. funds spent in Laos. So it's not like we're not going to do it…
▶ 1:29:11
It just keeps going over and over and over again. And as I said, when we first started talking about this, the grease that keeps it all going is blackmail, which is basically what you see. I don't know what they had on Symington, but they'r…