[lbo-talk] Richard Russell

[Michael Perelman]

Is that a different Richard Russell than the Senator.  Russell expressed 
scepticism about the war until Lockheed Martin got a big contract.

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:53:42AM -0500, SA wrote:
> Logevall's _Choosing War_, I see that Richard Russell, the conservative  
> Georgia House Speaker, told the president in Dec. 1963: "[We should]  
> spend whatever it takes to bring to power a government that would ask us  
> to go home." Mike Mansfield (Senate majority leader) felt the same way.  
> That was the nature of the Vietnam issue: Everybody was "against" going  
> in but nobody wanted to be the one to say out loud (even in private)  
> that a Communist victory was to be accepted.
>

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