Word: catto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry E. Catto, Assistant Defense Secretary until he resigned in September, wrote after Grenada: "Unhappily, the average Joint Chiefs of Staff member has all the public relations sense of Attila the Hun. And deep in his psyche is a feeling that the press cost lives, reputations and indeed victory by its access and reporting in Viet Nam." That unhappy war will continue to haunt history as long as the wrong lessons are drawn from it. There are better precedents...
Weinberger's revelation was amended by a spokesman, Henry Catto. "Some of the Soviet missiles are more accurate," he ventured, "and some are not." Nevertheless, even if Weinberger were only half right, it would mean that the Soviet advantage in overall nuclear megatonnage was no longer counterbalanced by the superior guidance systems of U.S. warheads...
...initially replied in typical Pentagon fashion: they produced a list that, according to congressional sources, suggested the abolition of one of the Army's 16 divisions and the scrapping of two tactical air wings, among other things. The list sounded like an example of what Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto had meant when he warned the public to doubt any statements from the armed services "that would lead you to believe they're going to be deprived of uniforms if they don't get everything they asked...
...install the fearsome rockets. The President will not decide until Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decides. And Weinberger will not decide until he gets some recommendations from a 15-member expert panel chaired by Charles Townes, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist. When will that be? "Nobody knows," says Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto. "These are enormously weighty things...
...years, it emphasized that money alone will not ensure a strong defense, and called for a national debate on just what the dollars should be used to buy. The Pentagon huffed that "the series turned out to be an editorial rather than a documentary." Even so, Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto Jr. applauded CBS "for its seriousness of purpose...