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...Defense John S. McNamara (thank you for that skirmish in Southeast Asia), former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 (thank you for those secret bombings in Cambodia and that stable dictator in Persia) and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown supporting the AWACs sale. As Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pointed out in the Senate debate last week, Brown had written a letter to Congress on May 9, 1978--at the time of the debate over the sale of F-15 fighter planes--which stated that F-15s would "not be equipped with the special features that could...
...check on presidential power, a mere seven years after Watergate. Here is the man responsible for Watergate, a man who belongs in San Quentin as much as he belongs in San Clemente, having the gall to speak out against the bad influence of the Jewish lobby. As Moynihan put it in his speech, the Senate, by approving the sale, placed the interests of the Saudi Arabian monarchy before its own interests and abrogated its previous stance reached during the F-15 debate. Should this inspire "confidence" in American foreign policy among the other nations of the world? Although changing circumstances...
...what are we to think when your government joins in such charges, for that is what you have done in failing to disassociate yourself from them." Kirkpatrick was merely taking the same hard line against anti-Americanism among nonaligned countries laid down by former U.N. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, yet diplomats at the U.N. were atwitter, grumbling that the letter was unmatched in its undiplomatic tone...
...almost beyond imagination. On their feet, American politicians may have commanded a vigorous rodomantade, salted with the Bible and tall tales. But sitting down to write, few since the founding fathers have proved to be on more than speaking terms with the language (a present-day exception: Daniel Patrick Moynihan). The British Parliament, on the other hand, has always been a veritable academy of accomplished scribblers, as the examples of Benjamin Disraeli, A.P. Herbert, Winston Churchill-and now Foot-attest. This may not necessarily make for better politics, but it is surely a comfort to the mother tongue...
...Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...