He was governor from 1975-1982.
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Although my mother couldn't stand him, Oregon's Mark Hatfield was one of the truly good Republican politicians back in the days when Republicans weren't full of shit.
He died yesterday in Portland at the age of 89.
Snip:
Mr. Hatfield served in the Senate from 1967 to 1997, spending eight years as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. But he came out against the war even earlier, while serving his second term as governor of Oregon.
At a meeting of the National Governors Association on July 28, 1965, as his colleagues rallied behind President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Hatfield said, “I cannot support the president on what he has done so far.” He complained that Mr. Johnson’s escalation of the war had American troops taking over South Vietnam’s responsibility “to win or lose.”
Citing “the deaths of noncombatant men, women and children,” he said the American bombing campaign “merits the general condemnation of mankind.”
At the time, a few prominent Democrats, including Senator Wayne Morse, a fellow Oregonian, were opposing the war. But Mr. Hatfield was the first prominent Republican to come out against it.
It was so long ago. It seems now this country is a completely different country than it was then.
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Billionaire and big Bush II supporter Charles Wyly, 77, has died. He was killed in an automobile accident in western Colorado.
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Football star and movie actor Charles "Bubba" Smith, 66, of apparent natural causes.
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Gospel singer Delois Barrett Campbell, one of the Barrett Sisters and featured in the 1983 documentary Say Amen, Somebody, 85, of a pulmonary embolism.
A vintage clip of the Barrett Sisters:
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