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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newsmen have welcomed the improvement in atmosphere but not the juggernaut schedule, which has kept them in the air 240 hours this year. In his half-year in office, the Vice President has flown 80,000 miles to make 375 appearances. The Ford entourage was on the road 28 days in May alone, and the June schedule offers no relief. Last week reporters sent him an only half-facetious memo reading, in its entirety, "Subject: Complete Exhaustion...
Astonishingly enough, many were not angry even then. The U.S. Army kept recruiting briskly at Tule Lake. Many volunteers from this and other camps went into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American fighting unit that served in Italy and France with extraordinary distinction. Indeed, the fear of the Japanese Americans' disloyalty ultimately proved groundless. During all of World War II, no Japanese American living within the U.S. was ever convicted of sabotage...
Said Kissinger: "The reason we kept going was this: As an intellectual exercise, you could say, 'We can put it aside for three weeks.' But no one who was in the room with us on either side could seriously believe that this thing could hold together for three weeks, no matter how close the issues were. It was a question of maintaining the peace, a question of moderate evolution in the Middle East...
...aides finished at 3 a.m. and went off to sleep, leaving the document for Kissinger. He awakened them at 8 a.m., raging that the draft was much too tough. "You don't understand," he said. "I want to meet their position." All through that critical week Kissinger kept up a furious pace. Said one American official: "Henry was rushing things too much; it was getting too sloppy...
Kissinger's close-to-the-vest style proved nearly disastrous when it came to dealing with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had been kept in the dark about the negotiations. In a hand-holding visit to Saigon in July 1972, Kissinger made no mention of his concessions to the Communists on troop withdrawals and the tripartite commission. He said merely that with an election coming, the Administration would have to put on a show of serious negotiating for a while, but that it would be "a different story" after a Nixon win. Implying that...