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...SENATE should not confirm Henry A. Kissinger '50 as Secretary of State. A man who secretly wiretapped his subordinates, lied to Congress and the American people about wiretapping and the bombing of Cambodia, and who helped formulate the policies that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Indochinese people must not be entrusted with the further conduct of this country's foreign policy...
...mask their deceptions, Nixon and Kissinger lied to the American people. They lied about the one and one-half year secret bombing of Cambodia. They lied about the reasons for the 1970 invasion of that country -- and they lied when they said the just-ended bombing of Cambodia was intended to stop a North Vietnamese invasion, when in fact it was directed against the indigenous Khmer Rouge...
Accordingly, he bounced before a polite VFW crowd in New Orleans not long ago and celebrated his resurrection as a public man by taking credit for illegal bombing raids in Cambodia. The audience was predictably appreciative. Enjoying this taste of the respect Americans of status accord a president--no matter how shadowed he may be--Nixon held one press conference, and then another, to announce that he was no longer "wallowing in Watergate" but moving on to unspecified Business of the People. Within days he vetoed a health services bill--remaining undefeated in veto battles with Congress...
...Since Cambodia, Riesman said, "actions have changed, but not perceptions." He asserts that the economic downturn has increased the number of studious potential doctors and lawyers, but that grades have not been accepted by students as sources of personal validations...
...presently peaceful state of the United States military is probably the Right's strongest suit. While the U.S. Army laid waste to Vietnam and Cambodia, arguments in favor of training Harvard students to join it carried little force. Although the Faculty in 1969 opposed ROTC primarily because its existence violated University autonomy, the students who struck for its abolition were moved more by the carnage in Indochina...