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...everything about the Nixon Administration enchants Shultz, but he generally keeps his doubts to himself. He is known to deplore what he considers to be the continuing divisive rhetoric of Vice President Agnew, and he has conceded that Nixon's decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia alienated large numbers of the young. Nonetheless he defended that decision before students, professors and a meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers last month in Atlantic City. The union men heard him out respectfully, but condemned the Cambodian action...
SHOWMANSHIP and semantics seemed to overtake substance as the lingering argument between President Nixon and a clear majority of U.S. Senators over his decision to send troops into Cambodia went into its fourth week. While Senate sentiment still ran against Nixon, time was on his side as U.S. troops prepared to pull out by the June 30 deadline...
...Administration sent a carefully selected group of hawkish Senators, Congressmen and Governors off on a quickie tour of battlefields and briefings in South Viet Nam and Cambodia. The 13-man mission used seven helicopters to drop in on a muddy mountaintop fire-support base six miles inside Cambodia. They had been preceded by three barbers, who clipped the shaggy locks of G.I.s outfitted in fresh fatigues for the impending visit. Artillery pieces were moved to drier ground, a pathway and railing were constructed to facilitate inspection of an enemy arms cache and enclosures were erected around open-air latrines...
Glowing Words. After four days in Indochina, the group headed home -with a rest stop in Honolulu-while Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow wrote a glowing report of the success of the Cambodia invasion. His words were toned down before the team presented the report personally to the President. It called the Cambodia operation a certain short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened...
...favorable report failed to have its intended effect on the Senate debate over whether the President could use federal funds to finance future U.S. troop movements in Cambodia or to support foreign troops in defending the present Cambodia government against the Communists. The first critical vote on such restrictions, embodied in the Cooper-Church amendment to a military funding bill, came on a pro-Nixon move by West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He offered a provision that would remove any restrictions against a future move into Cambodia if the President considered it necessary for the protection...