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During a two-hour meeting with the Governors, Carter discussed the West's criticisms of his efforts to block certain major water projects, push large-scale synthetic fuels development, and station a new MX mobile missile system in Nevada and Utah. He agreed that the Governors should have veto power over where synfuel plants are to be placed in their states, that a Westerner should sit on the proposed Energy Security Corporation if Congress approves its creation, and that the states should get federal help if large numbers of either synfuel or missile construction workers should flood particular localities...
...interviews that sounded a more centrist tone than usual. He insisted he did not want to spend any more money than the President, though he would spend it differently: less for defense, more for domestic social programs. He said he would remove both the new aircraft carrier and the MX missile from the fiscal 1980 budget. Though he remained committed to his national health insurance plan, he claimed that it would cost an additional $28.6 billion a year, while his critics contended that the price tag would be closer to $45 billion. Kennedy also favored eliminating what he calls...
...that Carter's foreign policy accomplishments are his single political strength. Brzezinski comfortably accepts a great deal of the credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
...raise it to a 50° firing angle. Spaced at about 6,000-ft. intervals, the shelters would be far enough apart so that a Soviet warhead that destroyed one of them probably would be too far away to seriously damage another. To be certain of knocking out 200 MX missiles, therefore, the Kremlin would have to fire warheads at all 4,600 shelters, which would so strain the capability of its arsenal that it would have few warheads left for anything else...
...race-track approach offers several advantages over competing MX basing proposals. For one thing, it would be relatively simple for the Soviets to verify U.S. compliance with the SALT accords because the shelter roofs could all be pulled back simultaneously to allow Soviet satellites to count the MXs. For another, not much land would be needed, and all of it already belongs to the Bureau of Land Management. Only the 2.5 acres surrounding each shelter would be cordoned...