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...Essay "El Salvador: It Is Not Viet Nam" [Feb. 22] puts the contrast into perspective superbly. Remembering the past is one thing, but incapacitating foreign policy and national morale because of analogies to Viet Nam is dangerous...
...allow countries in the Western Hemisphere like El Salvador and Honduras to fall under Communist control. Viet Nam or not, the U.S. cannot play the isolationist role when the turmoil is in its own backyard...
...Washington atmosphere where the swamp gas of Watergate and Viet Nam still lingers, the press is generally convinced that much of what is classified secret hi the name of security is really designed to conceal mistakes and protect reputations. In this mood, coverage becomes a somewhat playful cat-and-mouse game, as the press ferrets out secrets, while arguing high-mindedly that the real winner is the public. This is true only when the public is learning what it had a right to know and was not being told. The rest is headlines, titillation and gossip, whose place in journalism...
...13th, the predominantly Democratic Federal City Club of Washington, in a gesture of good will, bestowed its public service award on me, a senior representative of the Nixon Administration, and on John Sherman Cooper, a senior Republican Senator. I brought to the occasion an appeal for unity. With Viet Nam behind us, I said, the nation's foreign policy could combine the exuberant idealism of the Kennedy Administration with the unsentimental emphasis on national interest of the Nixon Administration. Recalling the early 1960s, I said: "The Administration then in office, and its opponents, thought of themselves engaged...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...