Kerry Campaign Responds
The Kerry campaign responded yesterday to a report in The Harvard Crimson that the senator had advocated United Nations control of the U.S. military in an interview with the newspaper in 1970.
Kerry spokesperson David Wade said in a written statement, “The G.O.P. must be terrified of John Kerry if they’re obsessing over statements of a 26-year-old Vietnam veteran angry at the Nixon White House’s indifference to soldiers dying in the frontlines thousands of miles away.”
“Through 20 years in the United States Senate, John Kerry has stood up for the strongest military on Earth and a muscular internationalism that makes America safe while winning the cooperation of alllies,” Wade added.
—Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu.