I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.

B. Aging and increasingly deaf Cooper did not seek re-election in 1972. Without advance notice Cooper addressed a nearly empty Senate chamber on July 27 1972 proposing an amendment to a military assistance bill that would unconditionallly end funding for all U.

S. Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 President Lyndon B. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.