William O. Douglas

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William O. Douglas (1898-1980) was a member of the US supreme court from 1939 to 1975. He served on the national committee of the American Friends of Vietnam until 1965 when he resigned as a result of President Johnson's decision to escalate the war.[1]

Notes

  1. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.