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Admiral David McDonald, chief of naval operations, recently returned from Viet Nam, translated this argument into flesh-and-blood terms last week. "The bombing," he reported, "is substantially slowing down the infiltration of men and supplies into South Viet Nam, and the slowdown has saved an awful lot of lives of Marines and Army soldiers on the ground." The price of another long pause would thus be prohibitively high unless the other side responds in kind. From Hanoi to date there has been only silence on this score...
...Just where are we going?' " Democrats agreed. New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledged: "Some parts of the country want to go slower than others." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield conceded that the time had come for Congress to do some "tightening up" of the programs that he helped enact. Slowdown sentiment is certain to make itself felt the first time Congress is asked to fund an expensive foreign-aid or domestic program. "I should judge," said Dirksen, "that the scalpel will be wielded rather freely...
...beyond that point, divergence looms between the generals, on the one hand, and Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on the other. Last week McNamara disclosed a planned "slowdown in our rate of troop deployments" in Viet Nam, "a statement," explained the Defense Department the day after Election Day, "that does not necessarily rule out a figure as high as 500,000 for the end of 1967." To the men running the war in Saigon and many of their colleagues in the Pentagon, half a million men falls considerably short of what is needed. Marine Commandant Wallace Greene...
...Either a slowdown in non-defense spending or an increase in taxes or both would enable the Federal Reserve to loosen the money supply and reduce interest rates. The Fed is openly fed up with Johnson's policy of forcing it to carry on the anti-inflationary crusade alone. Yet it has already been so successful in cooling the overly exuberant economy that the worst of the money shortage appears to be over. The board for three weeks has been rationing out more money to its member banks, and some interest rates have retreated from their 40-year highs...
...while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern schools, limping tokenism in the South, rising unemployment, widening income disparities, a few Negro Congressmen, and a general slowdown of progress in housing and school integration enforcement. Your estimate that the "Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity" and that we have come "an incredibly long way" since Lincoln depends on what you consider fair and credible...