"As I looked at the potential senatorial candidates, I saw no one prepared to speak for the national interest." The words were those of a reluctant candidate in a state primary election, but they expressed a national need. And on this basis Oregon Congressman Robert B. Duncan, 45, decided to run in last week's Democratic primary to choose a candidate to fill Maurine Neuberger's U.S. Senate seat. The election thus came as close as any so far to being a referendum on the Viet Nam war.
In supporting the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam...
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