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...Laos (1964-68), where he ran U.S. political and military involvement with an iron hand, Sullivan's reports were often memorably pithy. In one particularly difficult period, he cabled to Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State: AFTER YOU READ THIS REPORT, YOU WILL NO DOUBT WANT TO DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE RESIST. WE HAVE ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS WE WILL EVER NEED. I WILL BE REPORTING MY ACTIONS. He also objected to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's notion of building a wire fence along the DMZ to keep Communist infiltrators out of South Viet Nam. He cabled Washington...
...past, Nixon has not strongly supported such legislation, calling it a matter for state control. The Stennis shooting has revived the issue, however. The Senate Democratic caucus urged "utmost dispatch" on measures to "inhibit the criminal and his access to deadly weapons." Illinois Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson introduced a bill requiring federal licensing of all handguns. "What happened to Senator Stennis and Governor Wallace and Senator Robert Kennedy could happen to any citizen, and frequently does," he argued. A similar bill was to be introduced in the House by Democrats Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois and Jonathan Bingham of New York...
...awaited the arrival of the Communist delegations to the supervisory four-party joint military commission. The members of the North Vietnamese delegation were expected to arrive in Saigon by a flight from Hanoi via Vientiane. The Viet Cong promised a more bizarre entrance. U.S. officials awaited a signal to dispatch a helicopter to pick up the V.C. delegation chief (a general, most likely), who would be waiting either in the U Minh forest, an old Communist stronghold in the southern tip of the country, or in the area west of Saigon near the Cambodian border...
...month went by without some congressional committee grilling one of his friends for some peccadillo or outright misfeasance. China had been taken over by Communists, contributing to the charge that the State Department was "soft on Communism." When the invasion of South Korea started, Truman reacted with typical dispatch. In a space of 60 hours, he ordered U.S. forces into battle and got U.N. endorsement. When General Douglas MacArthur tried to bully him from abroad and issued battlefront ukases challenging U.S. policy, Truman did not hesitate. He recalled the hero of World War II despite public and political uproar. Truman...
...approximately 9:55, I called the Health Services, asking for immediate dispatch of a physician and ambulance to Sever 17 in the Yard to treat what we assumed to be a severe epileptic fit. Simultaneously, another student in the class ran to the Health Services to personally request the same, and was told that a doctor was on his way. Upon returning to Sever Hall, the student found that no doctor had yet arrived. Ten minutes later, the University Police arrived and attempted to revive Mr. Pickering. They made several attempts via radio to locate the physician who had supposedly...