Word: galley
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...snipers" had "falsely stereotyped" U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam as "drug addicts and coldblooded criminals." Agnew also argued that "the rather abnormal fears and the conditions in a military operation are not subject to Monday-morning quarterback judgment by someone sitting comfortably in an office in Washington." Applied to Galley, that principle ignores the fact that the jurors who convicted Galley had all served in combat...
Extralegal Ingredient. The President was deeply troubled by the Galley case. He awoke in his San Clemente bedroom at 2 a.m., made some notes, and next morning called in his senior aides to consult about what could be done. His first decision was to intervene as Commander in Chief to permit Galley to continue living in his bachelor's quarters at Fort Benning until all his appeals have been acted upon. It was a decision probably reflecting Nixon's concern both as President and as politician: the move might help cool the country and would appeal to Nixon...
...even that was not enough. Two days later, he decided "to add an extralegal ingredient to the review process," as Aide John Ehrlichman explained. That ingredient was Nixon's dramatic promise to decide personally Galley's case once the review procedure is exhausted and before he ever serves a day of his sentence to hard labor for life...
...over the current rate. That would reduce troop strength in Viet Nam to about 50,000 by the middle of next year. Whether that will satisfy the renewed yearning for an end to the war seems increasingly doubtful, given the fresh divisions and the moral torments caused by the Galley verdict...
...Galley's thoughts are monopolized by the proceedings against him, his feelings of doubt, his guilt. There has been a regular evening television ritual in which he, his comely, red-haired steady friend, Anne Moore, and a few close friends monitored the trial reports on all three networks. So voluminous has Galley's mail been that for seven months he has employed a secretary, Shirley Sewell, to answer...