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There were repeated meetings with Kissinger, Secretaries William Rogers of State and Melvin Laird of Defense, CIA Chief Richard Helms and Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Ex-Congressman Laird was concerned about the bombing for fear of political reaction at home; Rogers and Kissinger were scarcely more enthusiastic, though evidently less concerned about what might happen politically. Finally the President made up his mind. Top-secret instructions were sent in code via satellite to the B-52 bases and to the Seventh Fleet. Next day he sent the order to raid Hanoi and Haiphong. Within...
...memorandum prepared by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and released last week by Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) clarifies our importance as students opposed to the war. If the United States were released from "domestic restraints," notes the memorandum, it might undertake amphibious operations against the North or bombing of the irrigation ditches in the quest for victory. Clearly, Nixon is not deterred any longer by the risks of confrontation with the Soviet Union. The likelihood of bombing Soviet ships had forestalled the bombing of Haiphong in the past. That risk...
...Washington, Nixon met with his military advisers: Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State William Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and his recently named deputy Kenneth Rush. Meanwhile Henry Kissinger convened what would turn out to be the first of almost daily sessions of the WSAG (Washington Special Action Group), which consists of ranking officials of the State and Defense departments and the CIA, who form a sort of foreign policy crisis management team...
...consolation to the victims. A year ago, predicting "a sex scandal that will rock Britain," he implicated two members of the royal family and hinted that photographic proof of hanky-panky existed. No such story has come out. He accused the Pentagon of trying to cover up Admiral Thomas Moorer's visit to Spain last year. In fact, the Pentagon had announced the trip two weeks in advance. With another shot from the hip, he implied that New York Senator James Buckley was seeking a seat on the Interior Committee in order to protect his family's limestone...
Police Party. The difficulty of trying to shift national gears suddenly from confrontation to conciliation was dramatically demonstrated last week. With odd timing, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that China was well on its way to becoming "the third most important nuclear power in the world." The U.S., he said, must have the ability to wage nuclear war against both China and the Soviet Union at the same time. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird also reported that the Chinese now have a few medium-range missiles (500 to 1,000 miles, by some...