Pell was a leading critic of the Vietnam War, and his open break with LBJ in a 1967 major Senate speech made headlines everywhere -- and drew a deluge of letters, some supporting him and others slamming him as an unpatriotic pinko-Commie. And then came his secret mission to Paris, which I am writing now...
Pell's vocal opposition brought him into direct conflict with LBJ, whose otherwise brilliant legacy (on domestic issues) was forever tarnished by his escalation of the war. Here is Pell in 1967, posing with a painting of our first president.
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