Who was the first member of LBJ's cabinet to publicly call for ending the bombing of N. Vietnam?

W. Willard Wirtz
Died April 24, 2010 (aged 98)

For W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the Silent Majority of the 1960s had less to do with law-and-order Americans than it did with the nation's haves and have-nots. And throughout his two decades of public life, Wirtz took up the cause of the have-nots, as he prodded the well-off Establishment to embrace the plight of the downtrodden.

Wirtz, who died April 24 at 98, achieved such a prolific legislative record that the current Secretary of Labor, Hilda M. Solis, referred to him as LBJ's general in the War on Poverty. His major policy accomplishments included pilot training programs for the unemployed, a concerted push for the Civil Rights Act to be applied in the workplace and the passage of 1967's Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Such efforts went well beyond the standard mediation docket of the Labor Department.

The last surviving member of Kennedy's cabinet, Wirtz was the first of Johnson's to publicly call for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1985971,00.html#ixzz0oBX4da7A

RIP Secretary Wirtz! You fought the good fight.
You should be in the history books.

...yes, Wirtz should be in the history books, but it looks like Texas far, far, far, far right wingers are going to make sure there is no mention of anyone like Wirtz. I'll be surprised if they don't mandate entire volumes on Ronald Reagan, who they seem to worship with a passion beyond all understanding.

Again, thanks.