Seven Points for Peace: Foreign Policy Statement of Senator Joseph S. Clark

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Seven Points for Peace: Foreign Policy Statement of Senator Joseph S. Clark

Foreign policy statement read on the Senate floor on January 31st, 1966, by Senator Joseph Sill Clark, outlining his plan for detante in the Cold War. Clark stresses the need to keep Russia and China from uniting, and asserts that the continual "Search and Destroy" bombing campaign in Vietnam will not serve to that end.