Wayne Morse, from War Made Easy, video:

[elleng]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLV-Xeh8bA

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. He was something else. A primer for the kiddies:

(From wiki)

>>>>>Senate career 1960–68

In 1964, Morse, who had won re-election in 1962,<7> was one of only two United States Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Alaska's Ernest Gruening was the other),<41> which authorized an expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. His central contention was that the resolution violated Article One of the United States Constitution, granting the President the ability to take military action in the absence of a formal declaration of war.<42>
During the following years Morse remained one of the country's most outspoken critics of the war. It was later revealed that the FBI investigated Morse based on his opposition to the war, allegedly at the request of President Johnson in an attempt to find information that could be used politically against Morse.<43> In June 1965, Morse joined Benjamin Spock, Coretta Scott King and others in leading a large anti-war march in New York City. After that, Morse "readily joined such protests when he could, and eagerly called upon others to participate."<44>
In 1966, he angered many in his own party for supporting Oregon's Republican Governor, Mark Hatfield, over the Democratic nominee, Congressman Robert Duncan, in that year's Senate election, due to Duncan's support of the Vietnam War. Hatfield won that race, and Duncan then challenged Morse in the 1968 Democratic Senatorial primary. Morse won renomination, but only by a narrow margin. Morse lost his seat in the 1968 general election to State Representative Bob Packwood, who criticized Morse's opposition to continued funding of the war as being reckless, and as distracting him from other issues of importance to the state.<42> Packwood won by a mere 3,500 votes, less than one half of one percent of the total votes cast.<45>
Post-Senate career>>>>>>

[elleng]

2. Thanks for the primer, Doofus!

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. My pleasure. Too bad Morse's brand of integrity is essentially...

... extinct.

We are entering, I fear, a very dark era.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Wayne Morse is my magic word.

I worked for his campaign in 1968. That he lost to Bob Packwood that year remains a horrible stain to this day.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Let's kick this. Morse is worth knowing about. nt

[stevedeshazer]

6. Kicked