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… ...... 13 ... ...18 LETTERS CHRONICLES MILESTONES COVER: Re-Examining a Wound That Won't Heal .22 Millions having died, the Vietnam war came to an inglorious finish on April 30, 1975. At the end the South collapsed virtually without a fight, and America … are still felt in our politics and our hearts. Saigon: In the final 10 days, panic vied with heroism. ... ...24 Victors: Vietnam today is struggling toward capitalism . ... 36 Lessons: The war won't teach us what we think it will ............. …
… LEGION MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA August 19, 1975 I commend the American Legion for its constant patriotism in peace as in war. You give life and meaning to our motto "For God and Country." As President, I salute you and say for all Americans: … awesome sophistication and destructiveness, it is .difficult to see how freedom as we know it could survive another all-out war. It is f'ven questionable whether a free society such as ours could survive an all-out, unrestricted arms race. We are, … go up be cause of inflation. But the weapons we can purchase and the personnel we can afford have declined. During the Vietnam War, defense spending concentrated on current combat requirements, short-changing our long-range research and …
… not be out of tune with the majority of the Republican Party. I put such men as Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Percy and Edward Brooke in that category. My prayers and best wishes go out to you as our new leader. I am hopeful that we can once again begin to move our nation forward and I want to assure you that you have my full support and cooperation. Sincerely, The Honorable Gerald R. Ford Office … ticket. (1) More moderate-liberal appeal. (2) Has some appeal to those voters both Republican and Democrats unhappy about Vietnam war. Mr. Elliot Richardson a. Region: b. Capability: Background and training and qualifications are excellent. (1) …
… HOW HE DOES IT I DON 1 T KNOW. I THINK HE 1 S Gal' THE PEACENIKS IN ANN ARBOR CONVINCED HE HAS A SECRET PLAN TO END THE VIETNAM WAR. MARVIN ESCH. UU:k:kU)\U LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 11/ A HARD-HEADED, NO-NONSENSE FELLOW FROM SCHOOLCRAFT WITH A BUTCH … YOUNG MEN WHO WERE FIRST ELECTED TO THE HOUSE 15/ IN 1966 AND HAVE BEEN SHAKING THE RAFTERS EVER SINCE. HE HAS BEEN TO VIETNAM • • • Bl.Tr DIDN 1T MANAGE TO END THE WAR. HE HAS A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WORRIED, THOUGH, PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING ON …
… in Jakarta has advised m.e that you are now visiting Boston for further m.edical treatm.ent. I would like to extend a very warm. welcom.e on the occasion of your visit to this country and m.y best wishes for a successful outcom.e to your m.edical … in Indonesia as one of the few traditional nobility who successfully made the transition to the republican era after World War II. Since becoming Vice President a year ago, he has been occupied primarily with relieving President Suharto of many of … later this year. - -Indonesia wants to acquire counter-insurgency aircraft (the OV -10, which we developed during the Vietnam War) to replace its aging P-51 fighters. - - The Suharto Government charges that the Dutch last month were guilty of …
… N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 12021 786-9622 . Vol. 3, No. 17 - September 10, 1975 Dear Subscriber: In this issue, we warn about the direction "tax reform" might take in this Congress and evaluate President Gerald R. Ford's first year as at … and greatly under LBJ, and was beginning to slow once again in Richard Nixon's last two years. Reference is to the trend toward a massive, centralized national government dedicated to national defense (quite proper); stabilizing economic activity … up votes in Middle America (a political, not geographic concept) by promising to fight off the secondclass status which the Vietnam War and its legacy have been pulling us toward. As to the Pocketbook, there is always the danger that the economy …
… part of his service) 1975 - Justice Department Content Available Online No Summary Description Extensive material on the Vietnam War clemency program for Vietnam-era draft evaders and military absence offenders and French's role as White House liaison with the Presidential …
… . THIS IS ALIEN TO THE AMERICAN SYSTEM. THIS IS TERRORISM. THIS IS WHAT STOKELY CAR. ~ICHAEL MEANS ~ HEN HE CALLS FOR A VIETNAM IN AMERICA . A WAVE OF LAWLESSNESS HAS SWEPT ACROSS THIS COUNTRY . WHILE THE NON -VIOLENT APPROACH TO REDRESS OF … system. This is terrorism. This is alien to the American This is what Stokely Carmichael means when he calls for a Vietnam in America. A wave of lawlessness has swept across this country. While the non-violent approach to redress of … of change. You are impatient with the status quo, and properly so. Living in the shadmv of the bomb and the Vietnam War, you are looking 'vi thin yourselves for values and meaning. It is here, in college, that you come to grips with many …
… 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. H 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 …
… FOR THE FUTURE OFTEN RESTS ON NISDOM GARNERED IN ECONOMIC AuroBSIES. LET )s TAKE A LOOK BACKYARD so IE MAY LOOK FORWARD WITH CLEAR VISION . LAST YEAR ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT SPEAKERS APPEARING HERE RHAPSODIZED OVER v «THE … OF 1966 . .....-. IN ALL FA IRNESS , I ~UST SAY THAT M . ACKLEY - 7- HEDGED HIS BETS . HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT OUTLAYS FOR THE VIETNAM AR MIGHT OVERHEAT THE ECONOMY . TREASURY SECRETARY FO~LER SA ID SO~E.HAT THE SAME TH ING A WEEK EARL IER --THAT If VIETNAM WAR COSTS RAN TO~l O BILL ION OR MORE IN 1966 HE )D BE THLNKIN§2 &BOUT AN INCOME TAX INCREASE . BUT. Of COURSE J ~~. …
… obtain copies of the polls from a source outside the USIA. He telephoned me about his acquisition, and I asked h~ to forward them to me at our next overnight stop. The polls strongly backed the Senator's position and made Nixon's claims about … President Johnson has been unable to get any of our Western Allies to help us fight the war against Communist aggression in Vietnam. In fact, he has not even been able to get them to stop helping the enemy. Perhaps we cannot fairly blame LBJ for … the Korean conflict? I believe the American people share my feeling that President Johnson, in his preoccupation with the Vietnam War and the Great Society, has neglected our important role as leader of the Free World. In a nationwide sampling …
… reduce the anticipated October 1975 pay raise. III. Manpower Military manpower is now about 20 percent below the 1964 pre-Vietnam level while civilian manpower has de clined by four percent. The current 1976 Defense budget includes a one percent … wings . Marine Corps wings. Naval forces: Attack and antisubmarine carriers . . . . • . . . Nuclear attack submarines Other warships . • . . • • Amphibious assault ships. December 6, 1974 It ( ( I DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 1976 BUDGET BACKGROU~D k~D … inflation and increasing personnel costs were offset by manpower and force reductions resulting froln phasedown from the Vietnam war. and strategy change from 2-1/2 to 1-1/2 war readi ness posture. During this period military manpower was …
… D. C. J , 1;/ / r> \'- y Dear }rr. President: I hope very much that you will persist in your apparent intention to name Edward H. Levi as Attorney General. I think that this would be a splendid appointment that would reflect great credit on you … also associated himself with public statements against the ~ctivities of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Vietnam War, etc. 5. Qualifications. A number of people have questioned the qualifications of Mr. Levi for appointment as … for an statement. In conver'sa tions with fellow sai.d l'1e founC! tl12t many feJ.. t ~arly as l1e di (l end to the Vietnam war. Ee sugg ested the st a tem8nt to a fGW other presidents and found / ti:..e ~ ~ An end to the war will not r:ore …
… TOOK OFFICE, DEFENSE SPEND lNG WAS A SMALLER SHARE OF THE NATIONAL BUDGET THAN AT ------~ ANY TIME SINCE BEFORE THE KOREAN WARe WE WERE AT THE RAZOR'S EDGE IN DEFENSE STRENGTH. IF THE CONGRESS HAD CONTINUED CUTT lNG OUR DEFENSE BUDGETS, WE WOULD … WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, AMERICA WAS IN THE MIDST OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CR1S I Se WE WERE STILL SUFFER lNG FROM THE BITTERNESS OF VIETNAM. WE WERE FACED WITH A DETERIORATING ECONOMY• AND - 21 THE WORLD WAS WATCHING TO SEE IF WE WOULD RECOVER. THEY KNEW … FIRST VIS IT TO JAPAN BY AN AMER ICAN PRES I DENT• - WE HAVE REMAINED STEADFAST IN THE KOREAN PEN INSULAe WE HAVE PUT THE VIETNAM WAR BEHIND US IN A WAY WHICH HAS PROTECTED OUR ESSENTIAL INTEREST AND MAINTAINED AMERICA'S - RESPECT IN THAT PART OF …
… in Jakarta has advised m.e that you are now visiting Boston for further m.edical treatm.ent. I would like to extend a very warm. welcom.e on the occasion of your visit to this country and m.y best wishes for a successful outcom.e to your m.edical … in Indonesia as one of the few traditional nobility who successfully made the transition to the republican era after World War II. Since becoming Vice President a year ago, he has been occupied primarily with relieving President Suharto of many of … later this year. - -Indonesia wants to acquire counter-insurgency aircraft (the OV -10, which we developed during the Vietnam War) to replace its aging P-51 fighters. - - The Suharto Government charges that the Dutch last month were guilty of …
… 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 recomrnend 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 com:munity. The Board will send …
… low. Partly, this was due to the steady erosion of confidence in all American institutions brought on by inflation and the Vietnam War. But largely it was due to Watergate. You moved, both through your own personal integrity and honesty, and through … lay the foundation for a lasting peace. When you took office, conditions in the Far East were deteriorating rapidly. South Vietnam was falling to the Communist~; and Laos and Cambodia were tottering. In the Middle East, war seemed imminent. In …
… that is in all Americans. The challenge which confronts us is in reality three crises joined in one. There is the crisis of Vietnam and the overall issue of war and peace not only for our time but for generations to come. There is the crisis created by polarization of the races … wrestle with and seek to develop solutions to the problems generated by these crises. We must take a fresh look at Vietnam, where we are involved in the third largest foreign war in our history--a massive land war to which our …
… · ·· ·· · -- . - - 5 , TPiffiN JR i"s 0 D't'···nz::g 1 '67 71- - V ?9il I . I ~ L! -3- IF PRESIDENT NIXON ENDS THE VIETN~M WARJ RtOUCES CRIME AND BRINGS INFLATION UNDER lil•f'llllia~--,•. ..., - 1 81 •j_.,''Y7.aooPtl! rr:corr 1 wv;.·iia ·-"t … for anything. I don't intend to be particularly partisan tonight, but I'll just bet that if' President Nixon ends the Vietnam War, reduces crime and brings inflation under control the Democrats will say it's a trick to make them look bad. We … turning and the record is there to prove it. It was a Republican Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam and wound it down. It was a Republican Administration that developed a new strategy for peace in the world centered …
… The original documents are located in Box 3, folder “"The War Cradle" - Draft, Undated” of the Shirley Peck Barnes Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice … upon themselves. How I wished they allowed me to reveal their name the historical record. c_ :...-•- - Most of the Vietnam Veterans mentioned in the chapters are making it somehow. I have seen their eyes get misty when they talk about the … it was I l;,._-t., 393. liberals, who had long been vocal in the antiwar movement, were also unenthusiastic about the Vietnamese refugees. Senator George McGovern declared: " I think the Vietnamese are better off in Vietnam, including the …