Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
...those spy-in-the-sky satellites. They take clear pictures in color, black and white, infra-red or ultraviolet. They also eavesdrop on radio and microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have 6,000 people who do nothing but try to interpret voices and microwave stuff from the other side. If you think that's a lot, the Soviets are supposed to have 30,000 ferrets listening to us. I wonder what they think they're gonna hear...
...just don't have a lot of big money today. Even the progressives have to realize that. We don't have billions to spend on all this stuff. I wish we did, but we don't. So you have to live with the realities of a tough situation...
...Usually ten or twelve policy questions have to be answered before you can come forth with numbers. Do you have a B-l bomber or don't you? Do you have an additional aircraft carrier or don't you? What I will do is go through this stuff and then suggest to the President what I think ought to be done...
...have to make some money in order to spend the damned stuff," said Kirbo in his Atlanta office, summing up as well as anybody one of Carter's basic economic tenets. "Carter wants to be the most effective kind of liberal. He wants to see that the money keeps coming so he can do all those things for people." When Walter Mondale, Carter's Vice President, talks to his fellow liberals, he makes just that argument in defending his boss's concern about Government spending...