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You know, this DUmmie and HUffie and KOssie fascination with the once-senator from Alaska confounds me; he should actually be considered an enemy of theirs.
Long before J. William Fulbright, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and George McGovern jumped on the anti-war bandwagon, there were two “doves” on Vietnam—Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) and Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska).
In 1968, Mike Gravel challenged the Democrat incumbent, Gruening, in the Alaska primary.
From the right.
Gravel won, and went on to become a U.S. Senator.
From the right.
The elections of 1968 were interesting; IN THEORY, this was when people wanted us out of Vietnam, but IN FACT, the two most prominent “doves,” Morse and Gruening, were defeated for re-election, Morse by a liberal Republican and Gruening by a Democrat running to the right and center of him.