Word: muste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon is determined to extract some concessions from North Viet Nam in exchange for U.S. disengagement from the war. To do this, he believes, he must convince the other side that his domestic position is solid. Further, he must make his American critics believe that they cannot rush him. The President is having trouble on both counts, but not for want of trying...
...Administration's problems on the Democratic-controlled Congress. The second meeting was a White House breakfast. The deliberations at such sessions almost always leak out; that is often the intention. The President's main message, echoing Lyndon Johnson, was that U.S. opponents of the war must take the blame for the war's continuation...
Bombing Suggestion. In the wake of Ho Chi Minh's death, suggested the President, North Viet Nam must reappraise its war strategy, and a united U.S. front -or at least an absence of public criticism of the war-would make Hanoi more tractable. One trouble with the argument is that the Communists have given no hint in Paris of changing their attitude in the slightest, despite nearly nine months of little domestic protest. Fighting is in another lull, but it is doubtful how long it will last. Still, declared Nixon: "The other side doesn't seem to realize...
...military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army's reputation is under enough attack because of the war, and vowed: "I will not see the Army denigrated and downgraded before the world." When Resor insisted that he must stand behind General Abrams and pursue the case, the two quarreled sharply...
...Army's General Abrams, who was incensed at being lied to by the Berets. They told the general that Chuyen was only "off on a dangerous mission" at a time when he actually was dead. Abrams apparently was determined to dramatize his insistence that the Special Forces must operate under his command. It will be difficult for Washington to keep the case closed; it demands that ways be found to keep U.S. spies from fighting each other...