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...saying that I agreed with 95% of the Senator's "plan" to cut the defense budget, was in error. What I said was that 95% of the weapons systems that Senator McGovern wishes to eliminate are the right ones to eliminate. I am opposed to any U.S. troop reductions in Europe or Korea at this time, and without such reductions, further large manpower cuts do not seem plausible. Some 50% of the defense budget is consumed by manpower costs. I also said that in my opinion the Senator's plan overestimates the savings from weapons systems cuts...
...guarantee unimpeded access between the city and West Germany, 110 miles away. In principle, the President has no objection to the convocation of the Soviet-backed Conference on European Security, which would confirm the existing borders of Europe. But Nixon is expected to insist that balanced U.S. and Soviet troop pullbacks from Europe must be an important element of settlement. There is also a possibility that Nixon may sign a renunciation-of-force treaty with Moscow as a gesture of good will...
Soul Soldier, which concerns the adventures of a troop of "colored cavalry" in Texas shortly after the end of the Civil War, is so ragtag that it looks as if it might have been an aborted Poverty Program project. It features former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson as a stolid cavalryman who tried to keep peace with the Indians. Johnson is convincing, at least, in his stolidity...
...real peace, not the peace of surrender" in Vietnam. He vowed to continue air and naval strikes directed at North Vietnam until the North Vietnamese halt what he termed "unprovoked aggression" against the South. And the logical extension of his statements is that despite the veil of continued U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam, the Administration is prepared to fight its undeclared war, if only with deadly mechanical support weapons, until a non-communist, pro-American government can stand on its own in Saigon or until there is no more Vietnam over which to fight...
...November 22: In an editorial sent to press on November 20, the Vietnam Courier from Hanoi reported editorially that President Nixon was determined to put off a determination of a final date for troop withdrawal as long as possible; the article said that he intended to maintain a residual force in Vietnam, to step up the air war in Indochina, and that he refused to terminate "the bloody 'pacification' operations of the 'Phoenix' type, licked into shape by the Americans...