"We have so much blood on our hands out there. Why do we thirst for more?"
Idaho Democratic Senator
Frank Church
"There was a cry for help in the dark of night, which I did not want to deny."
New York Republican Senator
Jacob Javits
Once united in their opposition to U.S. involvement in Indochina, the two Senators were now divided on whether to provide more American military aid to Cambodia. The split dramatized the agony among political leaders in Washington as battlefield events in the small nations of Cambodia and South Viet Nam...
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