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… 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 …
… 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 …
… Presidents have not hesitated to impound when it suited their purpose. In 1942 Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Secretary of War to establish monetary reserves by the "deferment of construction funds not essential to the war effort." A year later … HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA 8:00p.m. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1973 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY We have achieved a peace settlement in Vietnam. Some fighting continues. Bow we must win the peace. This was to be expected. We are dealing with a situation where … that a genuine :peace will evolve. Fortunately, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, who have given North Vietnam military aid all these years, now are committed to restraint. Last year in Moscov, President Nixon obtained a Soviet …
… the eyes of common sense. Tonight I renew that plea in the li~ht of 1972 and what has transpired in the last two years. The Vietnam War is still an issue but it is fast becoming a non-issue. We have brought back more than a half million men from Vietnam and we have ended our ground combat role there. Now we are close to ending the Vietnam War by negotiation • • . …
… FORD QUlCll.:Y PROTESTED HE ALREADY WAS A MEMBER OF THE EQUATOR CL lB -- IN IT IATID .. : DURING HIS NAVY SERVICE IN WORLD WAR II. . AND THE PRES ID ENT DID NOT ffiT SQUIRTED. UP I 12-05 09 : 02 AES ~ ·. _I TLY AFTERWARDS FOR THE 30-MINlJI'E DRIVE … THAT THE UN !TED STATES HAS NO INTENT ION OF PULL ING OUT OF ASIA ENT !RELY, DESPITE ITS LOWER PROFILE IN THE AFTERMATH OF VIETNAM. INDONESIA ALSO SEES AS A PERIPHERAL BENEFIT REASSURANCES TO U.S. BUSINESSMEN AND OTHER FOREIGN INVESTORS WHO HAVE … WANTED TO HEAR -- AMERICA HAS NO INTENT ION OF ~; PULLING OUT OF ASIA, DESPITE A LOWER PROFILE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE {. VIETNAM WAR. · THE TALKS ARE CERTAIN TO CENTER ON ENERGY -- INDONESIA IS ONE OF / THE LARCESf PRODUCERS IN THE WORLD AND …
… 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 $150 billion cost of the Vietnam war. These costs are so great that they feed the fires of the very inflation with which they were intended to cope. Beyond …
… long-term topics such as relations with the Soviet Union, foreign aid, the Cyprus crisis, Middle East developments, or the Vietnam War, researchers will discover scattered items on most countries. The collection’s title derives from box titles applied by …
… of , ' ROA, this is a very high point in my career of public service • . ,I.~,of course, am, extremely proud of the award that Senator Stennis h~s read, but as. I look at· the nameS of tho$e .' who have been ,preyious winners, I feel very … actions and inflation, defense spending in 1976 -- measured in real terms -- will be more than one-third below the peak Vietnam War level and about 20 percent below the pre-Vietnam level. MORE , , ' ,Page 3. ., , As a percentage of total government spending that is, Federal, State and local -- …
… found a cache of classified documents in the trunk of a car that had been stolen from former U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Graham A. Martin. They turned the documents over to the FBI. The documents were embassy files Martin had taken with … designated by the FBI. In most cases, the reverse chronological order in which they were received has been changed to forward chronological order. The bulk of the materials in this collection are "backchannel" cables between the U.S. ambassadors … security advisers (McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft, successively) regarding the situation in South Vietnam or the peace negotiations. In addition, there are straight State Department cables, usually between the Secretary of …
… the international competitive position of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Through this program, contracts will have been awarded by June 30 of this year on approximately 77 ships with an average annual funding of $284 million. Budget requests for … -- after adjusting for inflation -- Defense Department spending has been cut almost 40 percent since the height of the Vietnam war; it is 15 percent below the pre-Vi etnam level. A s a percentage of total government spending, including State … today only one percent of America's pop ul ation is under arms. Our military manpower is actually 600,000 below the pre - Vietnam level. (MORE) -4 However good their intentions, those who claim that America is over-armed and over-spending on …
… TODAY'S SCENE, WE FIND AMERICANS LIVING IN A KIND OF SUSPENSE. YES, "THE MOVING FINGER WRITES." -2- THE KILLING GOES ON IN VIETNAM. AND EACH DAY THE LIVES OF fv1EN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IMPINGE UPON EACH OTHER IN PEACEFUL OR IN VIOLENT FASHION. YET, FOR A~~ER ICANS, .,A ,_ .· FEELING OF BEING SUSPENDED BETWEEN GREAT EVENTS PERSISTS. IT IS THAT AWKWARD PERIOD IN Aiv1ER ICAN HI STORY--THOSE DAYS WHEN ONE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IS COMING TO AN END AND A NEW NATIONAL … THINK WE CAN Ellfv11NAT~ INFLATION BIT BY BIT THROUGH GOOD FISCA~AGEMENT. ~AUCH WILL HINGE ON THE PROSPECTS lj FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM. INFLATION AND VIETNAM WILL BE OUR MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS IN THE CRITICAL PERIOD AHEAD. I HAVE HEARD TOP U.S. …
… that the Cambodian Operation must be described as the most successful military mission we have ever undertaken in the Vietnam War. I was glad the President reviewed the reasons for our attack on the Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. Americans now … Operation since, as the President explained last night, the Communists were making the entire 600-mile Cambodian-South Vietnamese border a launching area for attacks on American and allied forces in Vietnam. There is no question but that we …
… (ca.10,500 pages) Scope and Content Note Shirley Peck Barnes was a hospital administrator in Denver, Colorado, during the Vietnam War, and offered her facility and services to the Friends of Children of Vietnam (FCVN) adoption agency in April and May, 1975. FCVN was a participating agency in Operation Babylift, a coordinated …
… yielded to demands by some that Great Society programs be expanded by billions of dollars despite our costly involvement in Vietnam, price stability would be more than just a memory and we would have an improved balance of payments situation. We … to apply the other half of his advice. Administration officials have turned their faces away from the Keynes primer, which warns against the debasing of a country's currency and advises quick action to cool off an overheated economy. It's obvious … yielded to demands by some that Great Society programs be expanded by billions of dollars despite our costly involvement in Vietnam, price stability would be more than just a memory and we would have an improved balance of payments situation. We …
… Climate Justice (1945-2000) Reynolds Hahamovitch, University of Michigan, The Space Age: Horizons of the Future in the Cold War United States Jack W. Roush, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Friends of the Family: Informal … WTO Zachary Taylor – Ohio University, Normalization and Reconciliation of the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Fall 2022 Grants James Cooper, York St. John University, The 1976 Presidential Election: The Making of the US Grand … 1961-1980 Rutenberg, Amy, Iowa State University, In the Service of Peace: Peace Activism and Military Service in Post-Vietnam War Spring 2021 Grants Fedeski, Amy, University of Virginia, "What We Want To Do As Americans": Jewish Political …
… issues, military appropriations, grain sent to India, Hoover Commission, Taft-Hartley Act amendments, government spending, Vietnam War, and busing. Two Ford form letters from the Vice Presidential and Presidential years are also included. Donor David …
… Devine. The enrolled bill would increase detention payments for American civilians interned in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War from $60 to $150 a month. The bill is identical to legislation submitted by the Department of State. Additional … 14, 1976 - Saturday Purpose Increases detention payments for American civilians interned in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war from $60 to $150 a month. Agency Recommendations Office of Management and Budget Approval Department of State …
… BRIEF SERVICE OF THE PATROL FRIGATE GRAND RAPIDS. IT SPEAKS TO US OF THE FRANTIC RUSH TO DISARM THIS COUNTRY AFTER WORLD WAR I I -- THE SAME IRRATIONAL TEARING DOWN OF OUR DEFENSES THAT OCCURRED AFTER WORLD lJJ,.,.UWH-"1[ WAR I AND MOST RECENTLY … WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY AS WE ENTER THE DECADE OF THE 70'S. WE ARE EXPERIENCING A REVULSION AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR AND AGAINST ALL WARS. THIS REVULSION IS TRANSLATED INTO ABHORRENCE NOT ONLY OF WAR BUT OF ALL THINGS MILITARY … is happening to our great country as we enter the decade of the 70's. all wars. We are experiencing a revulsion against the Vietnam War and against This revulsion is translated into abhorrence not only of war but of all things military and of all …
… along on this trip. I have , always felt that a man who takes his wife to a convaation is like a hunter who takes the game warden along on a hunting trip. You probably expect me to talk about business this morning--and I do intend to do just that. … faithful to our treaty commitments , but ve shall reduce our involvement and our presence in other nations' affairs." Our Vietnam policy corresponds with the Nixon Doctrine. parcel of it. It is part and It fits into a special niche in the general … the circumstances under which ve should withdraw. When President Nixon took office he vas faced with three alternatives in Vietnam. t~ One vas further escalation of the war in an effort to "win" it~:-: ';> -4The second was to build up the ability …