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...fanfare to the Organization of American States last week, is the logical outgrowth of an agonizing yearlong struggle to support the beleaguered current government of El Salvador and draw the line against further expansion of Soviet and Cuban influence. There was a grim urgency in the President's plea: "If we do not act promptly and decisively in defense of freedom, new Cubas will arise from the ruins of today's conflicts...
...close of the 24-hour visit, the Americans had little to say, but the Vietnamese, who are in desperate economic straits and are anxious to reduce their dependence on the Soviet Union, seized the occasion to renew their plea for rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach: "We seek normal diplomatic relations with the U.S., not financial aid. Nobody here ever thought that normalization would come to us via Santa Claus." Though the Vietnamese chided the Americans for attempting to "politicize" the problem of the missing servicemen, they did agree to send a team of experts...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that all his malevolence really had but one aim all along: to protect the U.S. from Communism...