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...afford to spend $400 million raising worthless pieces of a sunken Russian submarine [March 31], surely we can afford to spend half that amount in Cambodia and perhaps preserve our credibility as an ally...
Ford nevertheless had other things to say about Indochina. He rightly deplored the "vast human tragedy that has befallen our friends in Viet Nam and Cambodia." He insisted that this was no time "to point the finger of blame." Rather, "history is testing us." America should "put an end to self-inflicted wounds" and "start afresh" in a new spirit of cooperation between the President and Congress...
...April 1965 President Johnson stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam, and the following April the U.S. used B-52 bombers for the first time to wreak massive and arbitrary destruction on the North. And only five years ago in April, 1970 President Nixon initiated the U.S. incursion into Cambodia. This April, too, each week brings fresh evidence--trivial or crucial, comic or tragic--of the continuing strength the most shameful strands in American history. As the country refers to old slogans about taxation without representation, it learns of an Internal Revenue Service training school that plied undercover agents with...
...Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless of how much we might have spent in lives or dollars, we couldn't have changed...
Said Republican Manuel Lujan Jr. of New Mexico: "They feel that both South Viet Nam and Cambodia have already gone down the tubes and that we've got to take care of ourselves first." Typical of voter reaction that Congressmen heard was the angry observation of Dan Merwin, a fireman in Girard, Ohio: "They're going down the drain without a fight, and we're still talking of sending them hundreds of millions of dollars? I don't understand it. We've got people starving in West Virginia." Echoed a construction worker in Wilmington...