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… 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 …
… opinion mail related to amnesty stemming from Gerald Ford's public announcement of the Presidential clemency program for Vietnam War draft-evaders and deserters. Also included in the series is late-term public opinion mail resulting from the request of the late Senator Phillip Hart's wife for unconditional amnesty for Vietnam War draft-evaders and deserters. Many of the letters also mention other issues, such as POWs and MIAs, Ford's pardon …
… 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 …
… - ·;,~t AS IT IS CALLED, IS SEING TAKEN UP 3Y GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS, THE STUDENTS IN nuR vU rnLL~~c.r-~ L..u AND OUR FORWARD-LOOKING INDUSTRIES. IT IS A CHALLENGE THAT DEMANDS v V9 iv100N, r.~AGN IF ICENT AS THAT r·J11 SS I ON WAS. 44 _. IT IS … c: ; , . l d l l l .- THAT WE .ARE !iE-ORO.~~JJjg~~-OUR PR,IQRJ.I.lES AT I t * THE FEDERAL LEVEL. WE ARE WINDING 80WN THE VIETNAM WAR .... . -- EXTRICATING OURSELVES FROM THAT TRAGIC CONFLICT HALFWAY AROUND THE ..... WORLD -- AND TURNING OUR … This is just one bit of evidence that we are re-ordering our priorities at the Federal level. We are winding down the Vietnam War -- extricating ourselves from that tragic conflict halfway around the world -- and turning our priorities …
… A SERIES OF HISTORIC TRANSITIONS: -- FROM AN ERA OF CONFRONTATION TO AN ERA OF NEGOTIATION. -- FROM ARMS COMPETITION TOWARD ARMS LIMITATION. -- FROM THE DRAFT TO AN ALL-VOLUNTEER SERVICE. -- FROM A FEDERAL BUDGET DOMINATED BY DEFENSE … A WARTIME . I -4- TO A PEACETIME ECONOMY HAVE BEEN MOST SEVERE. THE PRESIDENT HAS BROUGHT NEARLY 500,000 TROOPS HOME FROM VIETNAM AND HAS · SHARPLY CUT OUR ARMED FORCES ·AND DEFENSE PURCHASES. AS THIS WINDING DOWN OCCURRED, MORE THAN 2 MILLION … HAVE BEEN TRIMMED TO 2,391 1 000, 73,000 LESS THAN THE LOWEST FIGURE FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES AND 1.1 MILLION BELOW THE VIETNAM WAR HIGH REGISTERED IN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. AT THE SAME TIME, THE NUMBER OF CIVILIAN EMPLOYES IN THE DEFENSE …
… Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library -- " ' \ r:; 1 -.-; c. .::·, * \- Our Military Applicants During the Vietnam War,,7,500,000 individuals served in uniform. I Most I served well under difficult circumstances, and 94% received Honorable Dischajges. I One-third of them served in Vietnam, where 56,000 lost their lives and 30~,0~0 were wounded. Almost one in twelve Vietnam era service members went AWOL …
… charged with creating a program of conditional clemency for those accused of draft or military absence offenses during the Vietnam War. The Board, chaired by former New York Senator Charles Goodell immediately began to develop the program and hire a … Member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council 2000 - Served as lead attorney for George W. Bush’s recount effort in Broward County, Florida. 2001 -- Attorney, partner at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. Content Available Online No Summary …
… has only a vague and flimsy grasp of the real defense issues fac ing this nation with its gravest foreign threat since the War of 1812. Although he has some capable de fense advisers in Paul Niize and Elmo Zumwalt, he apparently has difficulty … total ratio has leaned out under GRF/DHR. • The number of flag/general officers has steadily decreased since the 1968 Vietnam War peak. The ratio of flag/general officers-to-total-military is being leaned out under GRF/DHR, from 5.8 to 5.5 … there were at the end of WW II. In 1945, we had 2,068 general and flag officers compared to 1,184 today. the peak of the Vietnam War there were 1352. At (We project a reduction to 1,170 at the end of FY 1977, further reducing to 1,157 by end-FY …
… years before President Ford assumed office, public opinion was sharply divided over wh~t the government policy should be toward those who had committed Vietnam-era draft violations and military absence offenses. Many citizens be- lieved that these actions could not be … Six weeks after taking office, President Ford announced a program of clemency, of forgiveness, of reconciliation for Vietnam-era draft and military absence offenders. In his Proclamation of September 16, 1974, President Ford created a …