And if in the process, somebody’s ox gets gored, like Nixon in Watergate or Clinton and Monica, that’s just too goddamn bad.ĭon’t get me wrong.
It’s not just describing what happened, but also explaining the how and the why.
To me, this is what being a reporter is all about. Whom did he quote as an authority for his belief that everything about the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was wrong and that it would ultimately result in America getting into a war we couldn’t win? He quoted I. Several months after the Resolution, I heard Wayne Morse deliver a speech in which he explained his anti-War stance. The House vote authorizing the President to widen the war was 416-0, the Senate voted 88-2, with dissenting votes coming from Ernest Gruening of Alaska and Oregon’s Wayne Morse. Stone, who raised questions about the honesty and validity of Lyndon Johnson’s deceitful Tonkin Gulf strategy less than three weeks after those fateful votes occurred. When it comes to remembering those times, however, there is also a third journalist who is rarely mentioned today, but whose work inspired not only the efforts of Halberstam and Fitzgerald, but also set a standard for what the role of a journalist is supposed to be all about.
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