| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-4435-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4436-9.)
"How can Congress's relatively limited influence on the nation's Vietnam policies best be explained" (p. 14)? So asks the author of this compact, insightful, and carefully focused volume. In seeking at least a partial answer to that important question, Joseph A. Fry concentrates on the two sets of congressional hearings that constituted the first, and most significant, examinations of U.S. purpose, strategy, and tactics in Vietnam.	1
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the leadership of the dovish Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, conducted televised hearings in early 1966 that featured the antiwar testimony of the famed diplomat George F. Kennan and retired general James M. Gavin. In summer 1967, the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, under the chairmanship of the hawkish Mississippi Democrat John C. Stennis, followed suit—but with a dramatically different tack. Its hearings gave the military brass an opportunity to complain about the restrictions imposed by the nation's civilian leadership on U.S. military activity. Unlike his colleague Fulbright, Stennis held no brief for, and thus gave no time to, those opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.	. . .

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