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… 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 …
… sent compact disks containing copies of materials relating to the recapture of the S.S. Mayaguez and other aspects of the Vietnam War to former President Gerald R. Ford. He donated them to the Ford Library. The CDs contain two sets of material. The first … concern the Mayaguez, the bulk of them date from 1965 to 1970 and concern these units’ involvement in other aspects of the Vietnam War. For the convenience of researchers, the Ford Library staff has printed to paper all operational records dating …
… 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. …
… GOP GAINS IN THE HOUSE. THE BASIS FOR THAT P EDICTION IS A MY DEEP BELIEF THAT THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL END THE VIETNAM WAR AND BRING INFLATION UNDER CONTROL BEFORE THE 1970 ELECTION. AS A RESULT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL EXPRESS THEIR … THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- THAT THERE IS A DANGER'.S. EDGE FROM WHICH WE MUST STEP BACK TO AVOID TRAGEDIES MORE HORRIBLE THAN VIETNAM. HE HAS :'.~ADE IT PLA I N/THAT AMERICA CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT PLAY GLOBAL FIREMAN AND ATTEMPT TO PUT OUT BRUSHFIRES …
… alarm do not tell you is that our unemployment rate today is less than it was in the four years preceding escalation of the Vietnam War, beginning in February 1965. They do not tell you that there are 79 million Americans working--1.5 million more than a … that the world has ever known. 'Ohat else are the doomsdayers wailing about? tearing this country apart, About how the Vietnam War is These are the same people who are saying that we should tell the slackers who have run off to Canada that all …
… 6:30 f.Ma Friday, May 6, 1966 SPEECH EXCERPTS--REPUBLICAN DINNER FOR REP. W. E. BROCK, R-TENN., AT CHATTANOOGA. Our entire war effort in Vietnam is chugging along like an old coal-burner in this day of the diesel locomotive. The more than a quarter of a million … It might more aptly be named "the holdback policy." The president appears to have no clear idea about how to end the Vietnam War. Under hi1 present policy, it could go on and on, endlessly. That is mismanagement. *** It is mismanagement, …
… leadership that brings peace, genuine prosperity ••• and domestic tranquillity. Look about you and what do you see? In Vietnam we are fighting a ground war to which 525,000 American military personnel and billions upon billions of dollars have been committed-an Asian land war … a steadily mounting crime rate, higher living costs, higher taxes, runaway federal spending. , -2- I will not discuss the Vietnam War at this time except to point out that in December, 1965, the Republican National Coordinating Committee urged …
… Nixon went on nationwide radio and television to reveal the vigorous private negotiations he had been pursuing to end the war in Vietnam. Certain truths then became immediately evident to all reasonable persons: It is not the United States which is continuing the Vietnam War but the North Vietnamese. We offered as long ago as last May 31 to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam within …