Civics: Fame Travels With Senator Gravel, the Man Who Read Pentagon Papers Into the Record
At 3 o’clock one day last week, Senator Mike Gravel, carrying a briefcase, a shav ing kit and a clean suit, left Friendship International Air port near Baltimore on a plane to Los Angeles.
After a fund‐raising speech that night for a California Representative, Senator Gra vel, an Alaska Democrat, boarded a return flight to Washington, arriving at 6:30 the next morning, just in time for a shower, a shave and 15 minutes of picketing the White House to protest the planned nuclear test on Amchitka Island in the Aleu tians.
He could not stay in front of the White House any longer because he had to drive to Warrenton, Va., for a lecture that afternoon and be back in time for a flight to Canton, Ohio, for an eve ning speech to a county Democrat committee.
