In the 1970s, Don Fraser pressed for more transparency from the Nixon administration about its foreign policy actions, including secret bombings in Southeast Asia, as part of a movement for greater accountability and oversight in government.
- In the 1970s, Representative Don Fraser pressed the Nixon administration to be more transparent about the government's foreign policy, particularly in relation to the Vietnam War and Nixon's aggressive actions therein.
- Fraser, along with many of his contemporaries, sought to shed light on Nixon's secretive bombing campaigns in Laos and Cambodia, as well as other interventions abroad that were often hidden from public view.
- This push for transparency was part of a wider congressional effort to hold the president accountable and to assert greater congressional oversight in matters of foreign policy.
- During this time, public opinion about the Vietnam War was changing significantly, which was reflected in the protests and campus violence occurring across the country.
- The release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the eventual passing of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 also indicated a shift against the unchecked executive power in conducting foreign policy, partly due to the efforts of politicians like Don Fraser.