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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Remember when trying to "go to the moon" was a synonym for forget it? Well, we did it. We went to the moon. And your "middle America" was just the flagwaving contingent for 200 million people who were all, in their ways, flying just as high as NASA's Columbia, because maybe, just maybe, they all of a sudden realized that hunger and poverty and ghettos and education weren't all problems whose solutions were as distant as the moon...
...city of Erie, I take exception to your inference that all of Lake Erie is a cesspool. We are a tourist area, and Erie's beaches and boating facilities are open, and have been open for many years. Last year more than three and one-half million people visited Erie's Presque Isle State Park. Sixty lifeguards man eleven beaches on the park. These beaches are tested weekly by the state and county health departments, and ten are open and have been open for bathing...
This time the request was for $22 billion, a part of the military's total budget of $80 billion for fiscal 1970. The bill was a mere five pages long, which figures to about $22 million a word. Included in the Pentagon package was the Nixon Administration's controversial ABM system, which just barely squeaked by in the Senate by a 51-50 vote. The narrow margin of victory on its major section spelled trouble for the balance of the bill. Last week, before the Senate's adjournment until after Labor Day, other sections of the bill...
...million cut in the Pentagon's "emergency fund," an amendment that was opposed by California Conservative George Murphy, who called it "comfortable money" for the military. Answered Maryland Democrat Joseph Tydings: "I would call it luxury money...
...Another budget slash, sponsored by William Fulbright, reduced research funds by $46 million. The Arkansas liberal, who for years has complained that much of the research is irrelevant, mocked the Defense Department's projects by ticking off some that have already been funded, including studies of "Militant Hindu Nationalism-The Early Phase" and "The Chinese Warlord System: 1916 to 1928." Fulbright's amendment also specified that the Pentagon cannot use funds to research any nonmilitary subjects...