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… years before President Ford assumed office, public opinion was sharply divided over what the government policy should be toward those who had committed Vietnam-era draft violations and military absence offenses. Many believed that these actions could not be forgiven in light … wasteful. Something had to be done to bring Americans together again. The rancor that had divided the country during the Vietnam War still sapped its spirit and strength. The national interest required that Americans put aside their strong …
… ANNUAL NAVY LEAGUE CONVENTION IMPERIAL BALLROOM FAIRMONT HOTEL 1:55 P.M. CDT Thank you very much, Mr. President, Governor Edwards, Senator Johnston, Representative Hebert, Representative Treen, and my dear friend Representative Lindy Boggs, Mayor … all of the adjust ments for inflation, Defense Department spending has been cut almost 40 percent since the height of the Vietnam war. It is 15 percent below the present Vietnam level. As a percentage of total Government spending, including State and local, defense expenditures come to only 16 …
… SEEN THEIR EARNINGS AND FUTURE ERODED BY INFLATION AND RECESSION. - 9IN SHORT, LET US NOT STRIP INCENTIVES FROM THESE UPWARD BOUND MILLIONS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CHI LDRENS' LIVES BY SERVING NOTICE THAT AMERICA NO LONGER REWARDS THOSE WHO MAKE IT FROM LOW TO Ml DOLE INCOME STATUS -- AND BEYOND. - 10 HOWEVER, I DID NOT COME HERE THIS EVENING … 1969 TO 1974. SINCE 1969, OUR MILITARY MANAOWER HAS BEEN REDUCED BY OVER FORTY PERCENT. - 27 IN 19681 AT THE PEAK OF THE VIETNAM WAR 1 PERSONNEL COSTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WERE ONLY FORTY-TWO PERCENT OF MILITARY EXPENDITURES. THIS Fl …
… to receive from the President's program to help them decide whether to apply. Around Thanksgiving, the President signed warrants for the Clemency Board's first 45 civilian cases. In late December, he approved the Board's first military … of our political heritage. In Appendix G, we trace the history of executive clemency from English history through the postVietnam era. Lessons can be learned from studying past clemency actions, but a not of caution is in order. Each post-war … clemency has been a unique response fashioned to the circumstances of each historical period. The war resisters of the Vietnam Era are not in the same category as southerners who were defeated on the battlefield or Jehovah's Witnesses who …
… IMPROVE THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE POSITION OF THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, CONTRACTS WILL HAVE BEEN AWARDED BY JUNE THIRTIETH OF THIS YEAR FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OR CONVERSION OF APPROXIMATELY 77 SEVENTY-SEVEN SHIPS WITH AN … ADJUSTING FOR INFLATION lfo7o DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SPENDING HAS BEEN CUT ALMOST FORTY PERCENT IS 1D SINCE THE HEIGHT OF THE VIETNAM WAR; BELOW THE PRE-VIETNAM LEVEL. GOVERNMENT SPENDING~ IT IS FIFTEEN PERCENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL INCLUDING STATE AND LOCAL~ DEFENSE /{, 7# …
… it's very difficult for President Ford to explain the difference between the pardon of President Nixon and his attitude toward those who violated the draft laws. As a matter of fact now, I don't advocate amnesty, I advocate pardon. There is a … were excused as were the ones who evaded the draft. But I think that now is the time to heal our country after the Vietnam war. And I think that what the people are concerned about is not the pardon or the amnesty of those who evaded the … justice system and also to bring about an end to the disvisiveness that has occurred in our country as a result of the Vietnam war." 0 (~ ") ~ ,-'(, (1 ); •' ! Digitized from Box 3 of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford …
… HOUSE BACKS PRESIDENT The House last Thursday expressed ita continued support for President Nixon's efforts to end the Vietnam War through Vietnamization and negotiation. The House rejected, 228 to 178, a so-called end-the-war section in a $2.1 billion foreign …
… or more engaging in a monologue. It was, in effect, a lecture in which he expounded his version of the origins of the Vietnam War. After about an hour and a half, Chou said it was too hot and suggested we all take off our coats. So there we all were, … or more engaging in a monologue. It was, in effect, a lecture in which he expounded his version of the origins of the Vietnam War. su~gested nlN'W:n After about an hour and a half, Chou said it was too hot and we all take off our coats. So …
… IVmen. Category IVs are those whose Armed Forces Qualification Test { AFQT } score is between 10 and 30. Prior to the Vietnam War those in ·this category were usually rejected for military service. The practice was to a.ccept only those in Category … was the product of the war ·itself. This problem had to do with the rumors of torture and mass killings taking place in Vietnam by the Viet .Cong and the North Vietmanese. The years 1967, 1968 and 1969 were years of rumor. The brighter and more …
… and disappointed by the action of the House of Representatives today in rejecting assistance to the refugees from South Vietnam. This action does not reflect the values we cherish as a nation of immigrants. It is not worthy of a people which … than a half million Cubans fleeing tyranny in their country. Now, other refugees have fled from the Communist take-over in Vietnam. These refugees chose freedom. They do not ask that we be· their keepers but only,~ for a time, that '\-Je be their … teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. 11 11 After World War II the United States offered a new life to 1, 400,000 displaced persons. The generosity of the American people showed …
… PARTY LEADER MAO TSE-TUNG, WHO HIMSELF HAS GIVEN INCREASING RESPONSIBILITY TO TENG IN RECENT MONTHS. THE CHINESE ATTITUDE TOWARD THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED, U.S. OFFICIALS SAID, AND HAS OUTSTRIPPED THE PERSONALITIES IN THE … OBSTACLE TO FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, KOREA AND THE U.S. ROLE IN THE FAR EAST FOLLOWING THE VIETNAM WAR. AT THE END OF THE EVENING, KISSINGER MET WITH F'OREIGN MINISTER CHIAO TO MAP THE AGENDA F'OR THE PRESIDENT•s … . OF THIS, PERHAPS, IN THE WORD GIVEN FORD ' THAT SEVEN AMERICANS LlstlD AS MISSING BEFORE AND DURING THE .VIETNAM WAR · IN OR NEAR CHINA AR~t)tAD ANE THAT THE REMAINS OF TWO HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. DETENTE WITH CHINA STILL IS A FRAIL …
… . ##If## ~ ~.?;.. ... c:.: ::·. ~ • ·SOME FIRST-QUARTER ACCOMPLISHMENTS .; . OF THE NIXON ADMIJ."\TISTRATION Progress toward Peace· At Paris, in VietNam and behind the. scenes, the Nixon Administration has pressed ahead with its fir.st priority -- to secure an … assuming office, President Nixon began laying down and pursuing a strategy designed to end United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Peace has been his first priority. And, I am sure the American people agree, properly so. There is a new …
… of the 5,000 acre Holiday Island on Tablerock Lake, was offering $100 per pound for the largest bass caught. The reward money went to the Eureka Springs . Hospital and the Holiday Island fire department. These conditions, however, did … I would sleep," wrote James. "If I were . President, I would be the chief and fight people and captured peonle in the war," wrote Don. But Stefan doesn't agree with Don. "If I could be President," Stefan wrote, "I would st.op war and stop … the strength to withStand the · tion-he was a student of it-and personally. Ehrlich- pressures of Watergate and the Vietnam war. Authors · man, 51, who was former President Rich~ M. ~ix~~ Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstetn are wrong, she says. …
… of decisions, neither he nor his subjects could detect in those decisions any pattern whatsoever. Such tentatives toward generalization as were to be found in his opinions only compounded the confusion, for they gave false leads to his … In these cases, there was a greater likelihood of inaccuracies, errors, and omissions. As American involvement in the Vietnam War drew to a close, some Federal judges began automatically giving probation rather than imprisonment for draft … that 18 the majority of our applicants were former servicemen whose absences were not explicitly unrelated to the Vietnam War. It did not take us long to realize that a fair evaluation of these cases required additional aggravating and …
… except to say that when he assesses his reaction to various suggestions in this country as to the alleged morality of the war, that he is sustained by thoughts of Colonel Nolde and his family who made it clear that they were courageous and … not discussed at all. o Senator, would it be desirable for Congressional representation at the Paris peace conference on Vietnam and was that discussed? SENATOR SCOTT: That was not discussed. I think that is a matter for the Executive to decide … nothing has happened. o Did you discuss at all the President's approach to reconstruction aid to Indochina, particularly Vietnam? SENATOR SCOTT: No, this was mostly on domestic issues this morning, except a summary of the President's regarding …
… HOUSE BACKS PRESIDENT The House last Thursday expressed ita continued support for President Nixon's efforts to end the Vietnam War through Vietnamization and negotiation. The House rejected, 228 to 178, a so-called end-the-war section in a $2.1 billion foreign …
… ghettoes and the bee,;inninp;s of ' the current unrest on our college campuses. The Sixties also brought the agony of Vietnam, when an America victimized by violence at home crept uncomprehendingly into the quicksand of a jungle war halfway 1 round the world. And as we lived through the decade of the Sixties, it became apparent that the era of the … related to the objectives I have just outlined and to others as l·rell. The top priority is, of course, to end the war in Vietnam. Presdient Nixon is moving vigorously to end the American role in Vietnam and, hopefully, to end the war. He is …
… this style of porcelain originated. Gotō Saijirō, member of the powerful Maeda clan, established the first kiln for Kutani ware at the wish of a Maeda feudal lord. The porcelain ceased production at the end of the 17th century until it was revived … Gerald R Ford Saigon Staircase A metal staircase used during the evacuation of Saigon in April 1975. American personnel and Vietnamese citizens ascended the staircase to the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam in attempt to board helicopters and flee the country. The staircase, white in color, features eighteen steps and …
… • THE WHITE HOUSE - WASHINGTON June 24, 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: JACK MARSH ..... RON NESSEN ~l ~~v~ FROM: MIKE DUVAL SUBJECT: WARREN COMMISSION REPORT I talked this morning with Dave Belin about a Platform Committee matter. I told Dave that the … --- .. Ia . . ......_ e1IM . .., co-. 11pla ..._ PI'Mitan¥• • • - _, Q. Mr. President, do you take credit for ending ,the VietNam war, as one of your T.V. commercials implies:? ~ A. Of course, the hostilities of VietNam , and the American military involvement there, ended during my Administration; that's a historic fact. What I would …
… except to say that when he assesses his reaction to various suggestions in this country as to the alleged morality of the war, that he is sustained by thoughts of Colonel Nolde and his family who made it clear that they were courageous and … not discussed at all. o Senator, would it be desirable for Congressional representation at the Paris peace conference on Vietnam and was that discussed? SENATOR SCOTT: That was not discussed. I think that is a matter for the Executive to decide … nothing has happened. o Did you discuss at all the President's approach to reconstruction aid to Indochina, particularly Vietnam? SENATOR SCOTT: No, this was mostly on domestic issues this morning, except a summary of the President's regarding …