Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the number of U.S. fighting men in Viet Nam, now at 310,000, has reached "the maximum level of American troop strength committed in Korea in the 1950s." For this, it argues, the President is solely responsible. Not until well after Johnson was safely elected in 1964, the document points out, did he openly commit U.S. ground forces to combat in Viet Nam. Nor was this decision forced upon him by the SEATO treaty or by "any other obligation entered into by an earlier Administration...
Above all, the Republicans offer no alternative. The real problem, says the G.O.P. document, "is how to end this war more speedily and at smaller cost, while safeguarding the independence and freedom of South Viet Nam." Precisely. But the White Paper does not say how this might be accomplished...
...Republican document was, if anything, mild compared with separate attacks on Administration war policy mounted by two New Frontiersmen who stayed on a while under L.B.J. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, former White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. scored Johnson for "piling on all forms of power without regard to the nature of the threat." Crueler, and more ironic, was the attack by former Speech Writer Richard N. Goodwin. Addressing the Americans for Democratic Action in Washington, Goodwin assailed the President for engaging in "deliberate lies and distortion" in his war pronouncements-some of which, during Goodwin...
...plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement and disgust...
...Saipan, Japan's military headquarters in the Pacific; a number of Saipanese say that they saw a man and a woman who resembled Noonan and Earhart. Goerner quotes native sources as saying that Earhart probably died of dysentery and that Noonan was beheaded, but he does not document the fact. Nevertheless he writes: "The kind of questioning and hardships they endured can be imagined. Death may have been a release they both desired...