Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars. It was organized mainly by Eugene V. Rostow, who was one of the Under Secretaries of State in the Johnson Administration. Among its 119 members are former CIA Director William Colby, former Treasury Secretaries John Connally and C. Douglas Dillon. retired Generals Lyman Lemnitzer, Maxwell Taylor and Matthew Ridgway. Calling détente "illusory" and warning that U.S. defense spending, as a percentage of gross national product, "is lower than at any time in 25 years," the group vowed to lobby for a stronger military...
...alarum on the McNamara Rostow-Bundys, including old Senate Majority Leader Sam Rayburn ("I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once"). There was also plenty of handwriting on the walls. As early as 1954, General Matthew Ridgway had drawn up a report indicating that if the U.S. wanted to follow France into Indochina the price would be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men tied down to a prolonged guerrilla...