Growing numbers of senators were privately sympathetic to the thrust of what Morse and Gruening were saying—that Vietnam was not worth the loss of American lives, that the outlook in the war effort was exceedingly bleak, that avenues of disengagement should be actively explored. By late spring this group included Democrats Frank Church of Idaho, Allen Eilender of Louisiana, William Fulbright of Arkansas, Albert Gore of Tennessee, Mike Mansfield of Montana, John McClellan of Arkansas, George McGovern of South Dakota, Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Richard Russell of Georgia, and (according to
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