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… liked to kid about it. His favorite line about- growing bald in Congress was that he "grew into the job." -4Ulring World War 1 Paul served as a private first class in the Marine 6orps. He tells me he's the onJty private in the marines who dares … and it !!!! be a weapon against inflation. Another frequent question is: is going on?" "How can you cut spending while the Vietnam War The answer is that the level of domestic spending in the federal budget- entirely apart from defense requirements and the war in Vietnam-has gone up from $46 billion for fiscal 1965 to a proposed 866 billion for fiscal 1968. Two-thirds of the $28.3 …
… choosing and decision--yes, a moment of truth. Millions of Americans who have never doubted the rightness of our being in Vietnam are asking themselves a soul-searching, devastatingly disturbing question: Is the Vietnam War "winnable?" Can we really win in Vietnam? sense of unconditional surrender. Not "win" in the Not "win" in the sense of …
… to serve his country in time of need is a national necessity. A national reconciliation of differences arising from the Vietnam war is also desirable. The program outlined in the attached memorandum attempts to meet those divergent objectives. … Justice before the deserter would be considered under the alternate service program, D. Spectrum of Opinion on Amnesty The Vietnam war ultimately generated a sharp division in American society based upon fundamental moral and philosophical …
… the freedoms that they, as well as we, enjoy and cherish in this great country. All we heard was, "that no good illegal war -- we refuse to serve". That was understandable to some, but to give them clemency and then have them not have the … .. complete its wo~k._ So .far :i~ has found· . Those who don't complete their jobs· still . :A ~ldier ":hO served in. Vietnam ,I I . said. ·"':. ~- .·•·' ·. . \( • .·· :· . ropped out, ~n kicked out or processed in ·many cases." Some w1th … , f'·· '~ · ""! ~ . · ·. 'Clemency Board, and its part of the pro- rorm jobs, alt~ough 'all ~greed to do so~"":" Af!otber ·Vietnam veteran worked '~is "A man in. New York State, i wowuled Selective Servk:_e offlclafs, mresponse ·grain.is still …
… sell millions of pounds of Communist pork in competi- tion with American faemers. Secretary Freeman has waged an undeclared war on American agriculture which has driven parity prices from an average of 84.5 per cent under Eisenhower to barely 79 … Great Society is the High Society. Had enough? What is the state of the Union? disarray in Europe. Not good with a war in Vietnam and NATO in At home we see prices skyrocketing to all-time highs, interest rates going out of sight, mortgage money … The White House blows with an uncertain trumpet, with its credibility at an all-time low. What are we to believe about Vietnam? There the stakes are high; the consequences are great. Americans are proud of our men in our armed forces. Many of …
… outbreak of convulsive violence in the Nation's ghettoes and on its 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 'round the world. And as we lived through the decade of the Sixties, it became apparent that the era of the New … are related to the objectives I have just outlined and to others as well. The top priority is, of course, to end the war in Vietnam. President Nixon is moving vigorously to end the American role in Vietnam and, hopefully, to end the war. He is …
… THAT THE FISCAL ... - 11 - DEFICIT PROBABLY 'ILL RUN ~ORE THAN $15 BILLION, A RECORD EXCEPT FOR THE YEARS DURING ~ORLD WAR I I. 19~8 THIS SITUATION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE FACT THAT v1R . JOHNSON LAST YEAR IGNORED REPUBLICAN DE ~ANDS THAT HE … THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS DIVIDED , DEEPLY SPLIT OVER THE ISSUE THAT HAS PLUNGED THIS COUNTRY INTO PAINFUL SOULSEARCHING--THE VIETNAM •AR . INSTEAD OF UNITED LEADERSHIP , THE A,~ER ICAN PEOPLE FINO THEIR PRES IDENT ANQ ANOTHER LEADER OF THE DE~OCRATIC PARTY ENGAGED IN A BITTER FEUD OVER VIETNAM POLICY AND INVOLVED IN A SHOCKING PO~ER STRUGGLE . THERE IS NO ~UESTION THAT AN INTENSE STRUGGLE FOR PO:ER • - 14- …
… 7'~(,...,'; ':" ,~---- . . : ., ' . --/-:. ' Admiral McCain was Commander-in-Chief. Pacific during the height of the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He retired when he completed that assignment. Admiral McCain began his Naval career upon graduation … McCain F1ather (whose husband is a Naval officer), Lieutenant Commander John A. McCain III (who was shot down over North Vietnam as a Navy pilot in 1967, and who returned to the active fleet after his release as a POW in 1973) and Joseph P. …
… It is not simply a matter of whether federal spending will be cut $5 billion this fiscal year but whether the sharp upward trend in federal outlays will be brought under control for the forseeable future. That is the real meaning of the … cost of federal civilian payrolls rose 75 per cent, and total federal spending went up 80 per cent. Is this because of the Vietnam War? While defense spending rose by 68 per cent during the Sixties, nondefense spending went up 97 per cent--from … Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library -2We have been financing a $2 billion-a-month war in Vietnam and at the same time the Administration has been pushing expensive domestic programs with built-in cost escalators. …
… Three years have passed since the signing of the Paris Agreement ending United States combat involvement in the Vietnam War. That agreement contained specific provisions for the accounting of combatants designated as missing in action, and for … Three years have passed since the signing of the Paris Agreement ending United States combat involvement in the Vietnam War. That agreement contained specific provisions for the accounting of combatants designated as missing in action, …
… '.~ i - ...~ ! .:. IV. PCB APPLICANTS C. OUR MILITARY APPLICANTS / \ ·,,_ f. IV-C-1 c. Our Military Applicants During the Vietnam War, 7,500,000 individuals served in uniform. M~t served well under difficult circumstances, and 94% received Honorable Discharges. One-third of them served in Vietnam, where 56,000 lost their lives and 300,000 were wounded. Almost one in twelve Vietnam era servicfJ.e"ff.bers -- …
… kept the memories I had that were so happy. Iwish tnis trip never happened." .. , 'Danang' reopens the hidden ; wounds of war -He1d1Bub I • ids ing to ort Documentary follows daughter's rJ~ bittersweet return to Vietnam ne 101 be ids 1at ith !C- nd 2002 Daughter From Danang Mother and daughter: Mai Thi Kim and Heidi Bub are reunited … clings tightly to Bub. Soon the young More than 2,000 children were flown woman feels "like I was the parent, and out of Vietnam on the US. "babylift" the parent is the child." just before Saigon fell in 1975, and only To her siblings, she seems …
… The role of the opposition in Congress is critical at this time. The Nation is at a crossroads in economic affairs and the Vietnam War. The record the Republican Party makes in the 90th Congress is extremely important in terms of the 1968 election. It … broad issues--peace and prosperity. I submit that in the 1968 election the issue of peace will involve far more than the Vietnam War, other possible wars of liberation, the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a possible detente …
… which will produce two-way cooperation between government and the people, a working together of one with the other toward needed solutions. I will talk with you today about a number of challenges--the challenge of militant Communism in the … and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library -2·- I speak first about the 1'-liddle East--because while it is Vietnam which has torn this Nation apart and ravaged its soul it is in the Hiddle East that the danger of World War III is … Asia and to work for peace in that war-torn region of the world. Some critics charge that President Nixon has widened the Vietnam War. is a fiction. This It is North Vietnam which made the Vietnam War an Indochina War--by using Laos and Cambodia …
… the American Mining Congress. but Michigan is a mining state. I feel right at home, talking with Not too many people are aware of it, We don't only make automobiles. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we also scoop out the iron and copper ores used … tossing federal dollars at every problem on the domestic horizon at the same time that we fight a $2 billiona-month war in Vietnam. The American people also want Congress to LOOK at what it did in the last two years, do a diligent job of … and help needed to help them help themselves. The 90th Congress, like the 89th, will labor under the shadow of the Vietnam War. Republicans will continue to support the Johnson Administration's basic policy in Vietnam, but we cannot help …
… "AS IT WAS'' WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE. RICHARD NIXON ASSUMED THE LEADERSHIP OF A COUNTRY MASSIVELY ENTANGLED IN A JUNGLE WAR HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, A COUNTRY WHICH HAD SUFFERED ESCALATING INFLATION FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS, A COUNTRY IN WHICH … ARE RELATED TO THE OBJECTIVES I HAVE JUST OUTLINED AND TO OTHERS AS WELL. THE TOP PRIORITY IS, OF COURSE, TO END THE WAR IN VIETNAM. PRESIDENT NIXON IS MOVING VIGOROUSLY TO END THE AMERICAN ROLE IN VIETNAM AND. HOPEFULLY, TO END THE WAR. HE IS WINDING DOWN THE WAR AND IS DOING EVERYTHING HE REASONABLY CAN TO ACHIEVE A …
… sell millions of pounds of Communist pork in competition with American facmers. Secretary Freeman has waged an undeclared war on American agriculture which has driven parity prices from an average of 84.5 per cent under Eisenhower to barely 79 … Great Society is the High Society. Had enough? What is the state of the Union? disarray in Europe. Not good With a war in Vietnam and NATO in At home we see prices skyrocketing to all-time highs, interest rates going out of sight, mortgage money … The White House blows with an uncertain trumpet, with its credibility at an all-time low. What are we to believe about Vietnam? There the stakes are high; the consequences are great. Americans are proud of our men in our armed forces. Many of …
… swallowed the Administration's Big Lie--the fiction about 84 months of uninterrupted prosperity. And they are fearfully aware of how the United States is being bled of its men and its treasure in that bottomless pit known as Vietnam under the Administration's misguided and misdirected pol i cie s . Tonight I want to talk with you about the health … urge every American to look at the record--to look, and compare. What does the record reveal? Today we are at war in Vietnam. Not seven years ago! (more) -3- Today the Soviet Union is close to controlling the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. …
… of convulsive violence in the Nation's ghettoes and on its 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 'round the world. hal~ay And as we lived through the decade of the Sixties, it became apparent that the era of the New … are related to the objectives I have just outlined and to others as well. The top priority is~ ot course, to end the war in Vietnam. President Nixon is moving vigorously to end the American role in Vietnam and, hopefully, to end the war. , He i~ …
… from the battleground of Washington, D.C., where leading Democrats including the Democratic National Chairman have declared war on President Nixon's Vietnam policy. That political declaration of war simply proves that politics is a weird business. Imagine the Democrats attacking the Vietnam policy of the first President in this decade to take troops out of Vietnam instead of putting more troops in. …