Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House aide, are "highly uncertain." As it now stands, the administrative budget, not counting a projected $5.8 billion increase caused by Viet Nam, will rise by $600 million over fiscal 1966. The extra requests for the Great Society will be partially offset by a $1.5 billion cut in Pentagon spending not related to Viet Nam, and by another $1.5 billion reduction by all other federal agencies...
...Secretary has already promised to cooperate with the special investigations-and well he might. The committee, backing Rivers almost to a man, has decided not to consider any new Pentagon requests until the four subcommittees have completed their work. This will mean a delay for the $12.5 billion supplemental appropriation that the President will request to finance the war in Viet Nam. Rivers, a Democrat and member of military committees for 25 years, says: "I think there are times when the Department of Defense forgets that the Congress exists for reasons other than to provide a blank check. I think...
...billion supplemental appropriation for the Viet Nam war, none of which will be counted in the new budget; he intends to spend $5 billion of the sum this year and spread the remaining $7.5 billion over several years.) Even with the expected increase, the remarkable thing about the Pentagon's budget is that it has risen at a much slower rate than the overall budget (see chart), indicating that on balance the U.S. taxpayer is paying little more for defense today than he did a decade...
...custom yet dictates such action by U.S. businessmen. Lacking stockpiles such as it employed last fall to roll back aluminum and copper prices, the Administration now ordered key Government agencies to buy structural steel only from companies that held the price line. On top of that, Pentagon officials hinted that Bethlehem might lose $50 million in contracts to build two ammunition ships...
Golden Fleece. Yet, as it has done everywhere else, the G.I.'s heart inevitably goes out to war's forlorn victims. Marvels a Viet Nam veteran in the Pentagon: "Imagine a really gung-ho West