Samplings of the style and forthright opinions of the chairman-to-be of the House Armed Services Committee, F. Edward Hebert, offered last week in Washington:
ON VIET NAM. We should have moved in and destroyed everything—everything that was in the hands of the enemy. I decry bombing innocent civilians, but there was no impediment to our destroying the docks and harbor of Haiphong. If the Pentagon had listened to us two or three years ago, we would have had a victory now with the flag waving high. Now, it's a sorry mess. You don't go out to fight Jack Dempsey with one arm...
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