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Kennedy also lashed out at Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, saying that his latest policy statements "presented a distorted picture of the strategic balance which can only panic and mislead the American people into accepting an escalation of the arms race...
...national feelings of optimism or depression than of value. Since the invasion of Cambodia market sages claim that the key to understanding the market is the war. And no one on Wall Street seems to believe the Administration on that subject any more-on May 12 a "Melvin Laird rally" of stock prices, spurred by his assurance that all ground forces would be out of Asia by June, 1971 lasted only a few hours. The Dow Jones Industrials, the most widely published index of market prices, closed 5.48 lower than it had opened that morning...
...Schelling countered. "If Cambodia succeeds, it will be a disaster not just because my Harvard office may be burned down when I get home, but it will even be a disaster in Laird and Packard's own terms. It's not the speech, not the action even, but what it all says about the way decisions are being made, that makes old conservatives like Neustadt and myself come out of the woodwork...
...emphasize the point, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said at week's end that he would recommend a renewal of the bombing of North Viet Nam should Hanoi respond to the attacks on the Cambodian sanctuaries by sending large numbers of troops across the Demilitarized Zone into South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese claimed that the U.S. had in fact already resumed the bombing; more than 100 American planes, they said, struck north of the DMZ and killed "many civilians, including 20 children." The U.S. replied that the planes were flying "protective reaction" missions, which have been carried...
...Monday, Nixon had Kissinger round up "unvarnished recommendations" from several sources, including U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams in Saigon. He took the suggestions back to the White House and read past midnight. Next morning, he summoned Rogers, Kissinger and Laird to give them the news: not only would U.S. advisers accompany ARVN troops into Cambodia, but the American-led Fishhook attack would be staged a day later as a second and even more unexpected jolt to the Communists. The orders were quickly passed to a delighted South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. As Nixon retired...