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… DESK CONTAINS THESE IMPORTANT PROVISIONS : 1 -- BLOCK GRANTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO ASSIST STATE GOVERNMENTS IN THE WAR ON CRIME -SPONSORED BY SEN . DIRKSEN IN THE SENATE AND REPUBLICAN REP . CAHILL IN THE HOUSE -- URGED BY VIRTUALLY ALL … OR CANDIDATE CAN ESCAPE EITHER OF THErv1 NOW. A YEAR AGO I WOULD HAVE SAID THE TOP ISSUES OF THE 1968 CAMPAIGN WOULD BE THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE REDIBILITY GAP . TONIGHT I MUST TELL YOU CANDIDLY THAT I DON 'T KNOW HOW THE VIETNAM AR WILL AF CT THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONSj I DON 'T KNOW WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO DO EITHER IN FURTHER …
… Wyoming Kansas Arizona Ohio New Mexico New Hampshire Iowa Hawaii Michigan Wisconsin Colorado Pennsylvania Arkansas Delaware Montana West Virginia Maryland Connecticut Illinois Nevada Missouri New York California Minnesota Oregon Maine Vermont … such concerns were either slightly or not at all on their minds. Stories about Clinton evading the draft and protesting the Vietnam War while in England also failed to deeply influence many voters. Of these issues 23% and 22%, respectively, say … if something happened to Bush Bush better able to handle int'I crisis than Clinton Clinton leading protests against Vietnam War while in England Stories that Bush knew more on Iranian arm sales than he said Clinton might make things worse …
… Secretary Schlesinger: They have a severe psychological problem but no actual arms shortages. The President: How about Vietnam? Secretary Schlesinger: I think our chances depend in part on Cambodia. The mood is not good. The Pre sident: … lower benefits. How can you justify it? &.EGRST /XGDS - - 5 SECR13'f' /XGDS Secretary Schlesinger: Earlier it was basedon wartime service. That is over now. I am not sure Congress will like wiping out benefits - - the y would say you are against … do that. only professionally useful courses. We will continue that but allow The President: There has to be an end to the Vietnam war and I want to vote it quickly. When will it be here? General Scowcroft: It is with OMB. It will be here in a day …
… well as fully accredited courses to prepare viewers for high school equivalency exams and to enable them to earn credits toward a college degree. In addition, the largest part of the broadcasting day of almost all stations is devoted to … af~nirs front des~ite the fl!!r continue ~ tension ttoops in the f·!iddle East and the poundin"' tn en b so!'le Snuth Vietnamese ••a when the Laotitm incursion cc.me to an end. We are getting out of tre Vietnam War. c:"' The ;- U.s. The President now is removing U.S . troops from a month, so that we will be dovm to about 1 11 …
… the First Batch of Clemencies? I recommend that you hold a formal signing ceremony of the executive clemency master warrants in the Oval Office on Friday, November 29, at 10:00 a.m. At that ceremony, I recommend that you make a statement … drafted into the armed forces in the first place. Often, the draft evasions we have seen had nothing at all to do with the Vietnam War. In the case of the Jehovah's Witnesses and some others, it had to do with conscientious objections to … back to employment and to a full life in our society. If the American people change their mistaken image of the typical Vietnam-era draft evader, then you will have laid the basis for his reintegration into the community. The Board will send …
… . .. .. . . . .. . .. . ........ ... ......... ... ............ Some of our Minutemen are being modernized to carry••••• -warheads and Polaris are being converted to Poseidon. Chair Number 9 shows four submarines in the Pacific Command; 149 … (CNG): The Navy is flexible, mobile and multi-purpose. Chart number 11 shows Naval postures and contingencies for limited war and general war (either with general-purpose forces or nuclear). All our major ships can operate either conventionally … Europe. It has turned around now. The General now is Davison. Discipline and leadership are back. It was torn up during the Vietnam war. The Jackson-Nunn Amendment wants us to take out support and replace it with combat. We are working on it and …
… n1oney in the housing field can bring large numbers of extra jobs in the guarantee of mortgate loans and in the putting forward of 202 programs for housing for older people and so forth to cut down the roughly 20 percent unemployment that now … of our economy equivalent to what it was during President Johnson's and President Kennedy's terms and even before the Vietnamese war, and if we assume that at the end of the 4-year period,we can cut our unemployment rate down to 4 or 4-1/2 … increases and a growth in our national economy equal to what was experienced under Kennedy and Johnson before the Vietnam War. MORE Page 10 THE MODERATOR: President Ford? THE PRESIDENT: If it is true that there will be a $60 billion …
… TROOBLED OF TIMES. lA~ ~C-4 ~ 6~ ~ ~ X" szur Is SHAKEN BY/t.mEP DIVIs:noNs ~ NATIONAL roticr~rrr.AT IEBATE oVER • • • • VIETNAM, THE CONTINUING CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION AND ITS CONCOMITANT BLACK POOER MOVEMENT , THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN … RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS BE ING THREATENED BY THE DISSENTERS THEMSELVES . THE JUDGMENT OF SOME AMER ICANS CAUGHT UP IN VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS BE ING BADLY IMPA IRED BY THE PASS ION OF THE IR BEL IEFS . AT THE SAME TIMEJ …
… Presidential Library Notes for Stevens Institute of Technology Speaking Engagement, Hoboken, N.J., Jan. 10, 1968. Subject: Vietnam and the Draft. --On Vietnam, there is little to add to notes worked up for Duquesne u. appearance except that we should be alert to the possibility that some in the Johnson Administration will be so anxious to get the war over with that they will lean toward a tenuous peace. The Administration indicated such a possibility during the Manila …
… IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TO MEET AND VANQUISH THE PERILS THAT BE-SET THEM TODAY, IT WILL ONLY BE THROUGH A PERCEPTIVE AWARENESS OF ALL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. AWARENESS IS THE END-RESULT OF KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS ONE OF THE END-RESULTS OF EDUCATION. 4/TAFT TODAY HOLDERS OF PUBLIC … M. "NIXON WILL BE FREE, AS VICE-PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, TO OFFER NEW AND DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS TO THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE URBAN 15/TAFT CRISES OF HOUSING, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY AND EDUCATION." ! COULD NOT HAVE SAID THESE …
… for $327 Million in refugee assistance. what does the President propose to do in the way of new legislation? As you are aware, the President was dismayed at the failure of Congress to pass urgently needed legislation for immediate refugee care … . we have a moral obligation to help these refugees resettle and begin new lives in the United States. They fled from South Vietnam for two reasons: They feared that they would be killed if they stayed and they did not want to live under a … them to find employment. The number of job seekers is a tiny fraction of 1% of the labor force in the U.S. Even without the Vietnamese refugees, the U.S. has been opening its doors to 400,000 immigrants a year without any impact on the job market. …
… hopefully give an answer The first is, how can we help to create an economic climate so you can use your education in a rewarding job? Secondly, how can we keep the peace so that you can stay on the job? The most important function of your … PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. MORE • Page 7 QUESTION: About the situation in Anrola, if that is developed into another Vietnam, would you have sent aid in the form of manpower and money over there? TIl:C PRESID:CN'T: I Hant to be very careful … so will you repeat the question again, please? qUESTION: If l\ne-ola had neveloped into a situation such as there Has in Vietnam, t.]Quld you have sent ~anpower and money over? THE PRESIDEIJT: There ~,.]as no possibility that this country …
… prophets of doom and the peace-at-any-price people, we are making great progress on the two major problems confronting us--Vietnam and inflation. Although many difficulties lie ahead, we are getting out of Vietnam and the pace of inflation has been slowed. Ironically, the sa:me kind of people who got us deeply involved in … Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library ' begun, we are on the way toward making government more effective. Unfortunately, the Democratic--controlled Congress has refused to move on a key …
… MAY 20, 1966 SPEECH EXCERPTS--BY REP. FORD, R-MICH., AT DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, GOP DINNER. The internal situation in South Vietnam has degenerated to the point where the great sacrifices we have made there may all go for naught. It would be tragic, indeed, if all the American blood shed in Vietnam shall have been shed in vain. For the third week, more American casualties than South Vietnamese have been recorded in the war although their forces are nearly three times as large as ours. With the South Vietnamese fighting among themselves, …
… R. Ford Presidential Library r • l f, WASHINGTON (AP) Charles E. Goodell, who trilld as il senator to hasten the of the Vietnam Vvar, ' has· bee;i .summoned from · political exile to help Vletnam~ra outcasts return to American' society. · ·· … con• ditional amnesty·JlhOgrarn. · As an appointed senator from , New York, Gooc;lell was a leading Republican critic of war pOlicy during th~ first two year;s or !, Richard 1 • M. .Nixon's , administration. That was one of the . issues that led … of draft offe·nses. committed crimes of war against .the · self in it by asking. It has instructed its prosecutors,. the Vietnamese going to be. brought. to ·Moreover, the President's _program United States attorneys around the justice, No la.w …
… tt> you from Washington. ------------------- There wos o time, and not so long ego, wh~n trading with the enemy in tima of war was considered on oct of tr~oson. Only o traitor gave aid and comfort to th.g enemy. Only o traitor hod easy access to … the goods and materials that he need3d to strengthen his economy. Now 1 admittedly 1 we haven't formally declared war in Vietnam--but we or3 in a war in that faraway country just as much as we were in !(oreo or in Europe in World Wars One and … to the Communist world? Let's look at some hard facts of lih--nome ly, the heartbreaking tabulation of our losses in Vietnam. To dab, more than 10,500 American soldbrs hove been killed there and another &!,000 wounded. And the w-eapons used …
… I am also receiving an additional $581 monthly pension as a retired Army Reservist, and that my active ~uty time counts toward both the Civil Service and the Reserve pension. Both pensions have the cost-of-living increase, and both have the 1 per … five-year period get their projected increases, the total cost of this "kicker" would exceed the $150 billion cost of the Vietnam war. These costs are so great that they feed the fires of the very inflation with which they were intended to cope. Beyond …
… increases in the money supply, substantial increases in credit, and heavy spending on Great Society programs and ~ Vietnam War. be The EiJienhower "legacy• had run cut. 2/ Cu-ds for Miani and Monterey ECOB:0MI OVERHEATED BUT••• 1. Administration … increases in the money supply, substantial increases in credit, and heavy spending on Great Society programs and the Vietnam War had created inflationary stresses and strains. The Eisenhower legacy had run out. The economy has become …
… ... Ja. te 1 ast year on the President 1 s I look far ~.~~.§£'.F.. on our environmental problems under this new ... 1warr - agency, and I hope Congress this year will . .• • • • • • • enact new Je gislat ion :bo aid in the fight against … the o::::;L - - foreign affairs front despite the continued tension in the Middle East and the pounding taken by some South Vietnamese troops as the Laotian incursion comes to an end. The points I want to make are these: - We are getting ont of the war in Vietnam; = we have succeeded in averting a new war in the Mideast, and a de facto cease fire is c-:o:n:t:i:n:ul=·n::g::.; :S …
… opposed to amnesty. Our directors took this position 1n adopting a Declaration of Policy at our last board meeting. WARREN W. HOBBIE Choirm :~n Web$ter Brick Co., Inc. Roanoke, Virginia JOHN G. HUTCHENS Chairman Food World, Inc. High Point. … been pointed out that those who knew the ropes and consulted draft counselors or had the money to hire a lawyer escaped Vietnam service by deferment as students, by enrollment in the Reserve or National Guard, by medical discharge, or various … those who served in the war by granting amnesty. Louise Ransom, President of Americans for Amnesty, who lost a son in Vietnam, has replied adequately (as have also many veterans): "The only way we can dishonor those who died is to learn …