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...added that the deans of the various faculties here would prefer to deal directly with him and not through an intermediary, and that he did not want to add an unnecessary bureaucratic position in the administrative apparatus...
...rationale of legislators has long been that the President "knows better" than they about a complex problem like Viet Nam through the Executive's intelligence and military bureaucracy. But as the Pentagon pa pers suggested, all of the expertise does not necessarily yield sound policy; the decision-making apparatus can achieve a blind momentum of its own. Worse, the White House may deceive Congress about its true intentions. Congressional intervention might well have averted, or shortened, some of the travail-and the need to make a case for Congress might have improved the quality of Executive decision making...
Blum stumbles across the real reason for the continued failure of negotiations when he recognizes the issue of "the United States' right to maintain a controlling interest in Saigon's political and military apparatus." This "misunderstanding" is of course what the war has been about since the beginning U.S. intervention in the early fifties. Nixon has apparently not given up the goal of American hegemony in Indochina. It is the intransigence of him and other members of the U.S. political elite that have scuttled the prospects for peace settlements from 1954 onwards...
...original decision to bomb was an instructive case history of the President's mind and decision-making apparatus at work. The move came after Nixon and Kissinger concluded that it was the proper course, and Kissinger, acting for Nixon, had consulted with and won the approval of Secretary of State William Rogers, Melvin Laird, CIA Director Richard Helms, Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Because the agreement was complete, the National Security Council was not called into formal session to debate the proposition to unleash the full fury of U.S. air power on Hanoi...
...there at the retail level, it isn't there at all, as far as ordinary people are concerned," says one Washington official. "That's their contact with it." Except, of course, for their paychecks-and the President may have to retain much of the complex price apparatus in order to put continuing pressure on unions to moderate their pay demands...