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Faced with that agonizing dilemma, Ford chose perhaps the only course open to him. He asked a suspicious and reluctant U.S. Congress to provide $722 million in emergency military aid to the Saigon government. He urged the Congress to clarify his now murky authority to use American troops in Viet Nam for "the limited purpose of protecting American lives by ensuring their evacuation, if this should become necessary." He also pleaded with Congress to amend existing law so that he could employ the same forces to help bring out the vulnerable South Vietnamese?to whom, he said...
...This dilemma produced not only tragedy for the Vietnamese but a series of mistakes, half-truths, lies and euphemisms that damaged the fabric of American society. Leaders first deceived themselves and then deceived the public. The American people, misled from the top and from the sides, underwrote an opaque conflict that neither generals nor Presidents quite comprehended. The tragedy was only heightened by the fact that the U.S. entered the war not for any base reasons, but out of an understandable desire-although many saw the conflict as merely a civil war-to thwart Communist aggression. Even Senator J. William...
...opponents to be an unpredictable sort who would promote all kinds of costly innovations, Brown preaches frugality and the limits of government as much as the conservative Reagan ever did. In part, dwindling revenues in a recession year have forced him to hold down the budget. The same dilemma confronts many other governors (see box following page). But Brown takes pride in his restraint, as if he were doing people a favor that they scarcely realize. Too much government, he maintains, has been bad for them. "I think you've got to focus on individual accountability," says the onetime...
...heaves into view. According to the Park Street map it goes to Oak Grove. Nothing to lose might as well go along for the ride. Pay now or later? (A peculiarly Bostonian dilemma, of course) Later...
...policymakers, the payments deficit pointed up one especially irksome aspect of this dilemma. Low interest rates-along with a bigger money supply and a tax cut-are needed to spur business and consumer spending and help put the jobless back to work. Yet the same low rates that speed recovery also drive money out of the country, aggravating the payments deficit and eroding confidence in the dollar. In large part because interest rates in the U.S. are lower than in Europe the dollar lately has been depressed on world markets, and it remains undervalued. Observed Salomon Bros' Henry Kaufman...