What Dems were the first elected officials or candidates to openly call

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam?

[goclark]

1. Self Delete

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Vietnam?

[goclark]

3. Oops sorry, I'll delete my 2004 answer :)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. McGovern, McCarthy?

[barb162]

5. I think it was McCarthy, then Bobby Kennedy jumped on the

bandwagon and then others. It's really hard to remember!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. But weren't campus and street protests way in front of the actual

candidates and officeholders?

[barb162]

7. Oh yes for a few years the kids were protesting the draft

and the war. Then the older people (above college age) started getting into the act and then finally the politicians. When I hear the phrase "street protests" I think more of the race riots which were sort of going on at the same time. Those were days of real turmoil as compared to now. There are no real protests going on now and I guess that is due to the relatively low number of deaths in Iraq as compared to Nam and the way Bushies keep the photographers out of the Dover Air base. Or maybe it was like Nam which went on for a really long time before the protesting started. Another diff was the draft too.

[Selatius]

10. It's generally been people in the street to act first

The Democratic Party, as a hierarchal structure, was simply playing catch-up. It was folks out in the street protesting for better working conditions, equal rights for all, an end to war, etc. who did it first, not the politicians and not any of the political parties. It was the people first and foremost.

If there is anything to remember about US history, remember that. The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement is a legacy of the people, not the politicians and the political parties. Neither the Democratic or Republican Party have proven worthy of claiming that legacy. That is the sole realm of the people.

[rwenos]

8. Wayne Morse, Senator from Oregon

One of two votes against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, following Johnson's trumped-up excuse to expand the War. Not sure who the other "no" vote was. Maybe Jacob Javits. I'm pretty sure Hubert Humphrey voted for the resolution. Not sure about George McGovern.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Yes but did these people actively oppose the war from Congress,

once the war was on? Say that it was a mistake and we should leave?

[rwenos]

11. Morse did fpr sure

and so did Pubbie Mark Hatfield, when he was elected in 1968.