Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper drawn for the Senate Republican Policy Committee-but not approved by the committee members-posed two questions about the war: "What precisely is our national interest in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos? To what further lengths are we prepared to go in support of this interest?" The report attempted to disassociate Dwight Eisenhower from any connection with the current massive U.S. involvement and accused Johnson of "diplomatic Darwinism" in saying that his policy in Viet Nam is "part of a steady evolution from commitments made by earlier Presidents." In fairly general terms, it also criticized the conduct...
Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of the committee, said that he had released the report without reading it because he was worried that it might be leaked piecemeal and distorted. But G.O.P. leaders were aghast. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, recuperating from pneumonia, left Walter Reed General Hospital and hurried to Capitol Hill with a statement: "We reiterate our wholehearted support of the Commander in Chief of our armed forces." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford seconded Dirksen, declaring that an "overwhelming majority" of G.O.P. Congressmen agreed that "we're not going to throw Viet Nam into...
...getting worse and worse. They are, that is, in the angry eyes of those who disapprove of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. As they see it, the very expression of their dissent is getting more dangerous. So it was that to Senator J. William Fulbright, General Westmoreland's report to Congress signaled nothing less than an onslaught of official repression that might silence dissenters altogether by branding them traitors. Said he on the Senate floor: "This, I fear, is one of the last times that anybody will have the courage to say anything else about...
That kind of assurance was what North American needed after last month's review-board report on the troubled Apollo program found "many deficiencies in design and engineering, manufacture and quality control." For Apollo's prime contractor, an aerospace giant relying on Government contracts for some 95% of its $2 billion-a-year sales, nothing could have been more damaging than such an indictment...
...blond gateway man is starting to work into shape and should get an idea how far he has to go this Friday when he will take infield and batting practice before the Tigers' game with the Red Sox. After exams he will report back to the Islanders, who have moved to Lakeland, Florida, but he hopes that will only be a way station before he moves...