Speech #940058970

So at the time when the President of the United States very properly called on all of us not to practice any recriminations. called on us to heal the wounds of the war. and when I think all of us. regardless of where we stood on this war. ought not to be doing anything now to exacerbate the divisions in the country but. as a matter of fact. ought to be trying to heal the wounds. I think the proposal the Senator makes represents eminent commonsense. It represents compassion. it represents the highest values of this country. and I would hope that at the time. as the Senator says. when we are providing a half billion dollars in American money to assist these South Vietnamese refugees who are coming here. some of whom may represent the same young men who bought their way out of service in South Vietnam. we ought to be at least as compassionate toward our own young people here in the United States. I want to commend the Senator for the thoughtffil presentation he has made this afternoon.