Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the nation's discontent with the war will not be suspended indefinitely. The key question is, how long a moratorium does the President have? Nixon's own perhaps over-optimistic estimate: about six months...
...missile system restricted to retaliation in case the U.S. strikes first. They have gone on to build missiles that can only be intended to render the U.S. incapable of responding to a Soviet attack-which means that they propose to make the first attack themselves. "There is no question about that," said Laird...
...asked Symington, could the U.S. not launch ICBMs at an attacker's territory as rapidly as it could fire ABMs at incoming missiles? Laird passed the question to Dr. John Foster, the Pentagon's research and engineering chief, who replied that he would much rather the U.S. had an option to "ride out" an attack before it had to commit its missiles to irrevocable retaliation. That was one of the few fresh points made on either side...
...foremost question is how soon the U.S. might begin to disengage from the war by bringing home at least some American forces. The need to do this is great because, without some sign that the U.S. can turn over more of the fighting to the South Vietnamese, the American nation may simply not be prepared to continue the Viet Nam war effort long enough to reach a satisfactory settlement in Paris. When Defense Secretary Melvin Laird arrived in Viet Nam on a fact-finding tour, he suggested that it might be possible to bring some 50,000 soldiers home this...
...question before the ladies and gentlemen of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society was: Who should write the introduction for a proposed booklet on the nation's Capitol? No problem, reported the Society's historian: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had already been approached and had accepted. No problem, indeed, snorted Melvin Payne, president of the National Geographic Society. "I think you could have made a much better choice with very little effort. I don't like it." But, countered one of his colleagues, Schlesinger is a noted historian and Pulitzer prizewinner aside from having been a special assistant...