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...this moment, the war is the most divisive element in our national life. We cannot be-as the President so mistakenly believes-the "peacekeeper in the Asian world." The objectives should be to withdraw all U.S. forces from Cambodia now, avoid further escalation in any form [and] achieve an orderly termination of our presence in Viet Nam within one year...
AMERICANS have a natural inclination to trust their President; the office makes him a kind of national paterfamilias endowed with special authority and wisdom. In any crisis, the instinct is to feel that the President knows best. When Richard Nixon undertook to send U.S. forces into Cambodia, one could hear the same response from Woonsocket to Wichita: He knows more than we do, he must be right. But does a President really have a great deal of special intelligence that is not available to the well-informed, concerned citizen? Sometimes yes, but often the extra facts a President knows...
...vital cables and forwards them to Nixon, sometimes hourly, sometimes even oftener. The total comes to as many as 100 typewritten pages a day. When any overseas situation heats up, there is a constant barrage of telephone calls between the oval office and Kissinger's basement headquarters. As Cambodia came to a crunch, Nixon met with the National Security Council, with his Washington Special Action Group, with Secretary of State Rogers, with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, and countless times with Kissinger...
...spring riots: "Students aren't interested in the S.D.S. rhetoric any more. We don't identify with their worker-student alliances or their Maoism. There's a very real difference between rhetoric and action on the campus-kids talk radical and act liberal. Cambodia and Kent State have pushed the talkers into action, but it's not a conversion from left to right...
...President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia, but attacked the President's management of the economy. New York's Brennan argued that the U.S. "must have an honorable peace, not walk out like Chamberlain...