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...that we hold the chips (read: technology), the best and brightest players the most efficient organizations, and as always being them the fastest gunmen, to dominate any and all bargaining sessions and literally control the agenda for the future. A corollary belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery to function within the old imperial now called multi-national context, but without public resistance such as that generated by the inhuman policies used to prosecute the Indochina Wars...
...sense of rendering economic and material assistance when free countries are invaded." Agnew repeated to newsmen what he said he had told the Cambodians: The U.S. will not become militarily involved in any way in Cambodia except to protect or support American troops in Viet Nam. THAILAND: In warless Bangkok, his last stop, Agnew for the first time was able to relax. Unencumbered by heavy security, he signed autographs for children at his hotel, attended a state dinner in the prescribed open-necked, shortsleeved sports shirt, and, beer in hand, chatted amiably with Thai Premier Thanom Kittika-chorn...
...year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also...
...this single point, each Senator rapidly retired to his own side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision of a warless world, pushed ahead to the farthest outpost of internationalist thought...
Among Grandpappy's recent errands was a flight from an eastern Pacific base to the U.S. mainland, carrying 40 enlisted men home after many months on the unexciting, warless fringes of civilization. He has borne hundreds of girls from Miami to government jobs in the Canal Zone. Said a crew member: "The gals like him. They know they can trust Grandpappy...