[lbo-talk] Richard Russell

[SA]

Sorry, you're right - he was a Senator - the unofficial dean of the 
Senate. I always confuse Russell with Sam Rayburn, the House speaker - 
both Southern Dems with Congressional office building named after them.

SA

Michael Perelman wrote:
> Is that a different Richard Russell than the Senator.  Russell expressed 
> scepticism about the war until Lockheed Martin got a big contract.
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:53:42AM -0500, SA wrote:
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>> 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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