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...informants and me since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan, But Magruder gave some interesting clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success of the September 15 Moratorium, the October 15 Moratorium in particular. Magruder's first job was to work on this, working for Haldeman with the aid of a memo from Dwight Chapin, which he gives in his book. The memo begins, "If the president decides to announce escalation on November 3, it will then...
...would he come out with. Astonishment that he announced no cut in that particular speech. He sure didn't announce escalation. But that's what he was considering. And I think that Chapin gives a hint as to why they decided to postpone that. I think, in short, that Moratorium program that looked like a liberal thing and certainly did not look effective at the time, because it didn't get him out--I think it seems to have derailed a plan to mine Haiphong in the fall of '69, and postponed it for what turned...
...support of a belief that the 1969 moratoriums induced the administration to put off escalation plans, he cited a memo from presidential appointments secretary Dwight Chapin to Magruder, published in Magruder's book, in which Chapin said that a November 3 presidential announcement of escalation would make it "hard to contain" the moratorium scheduled for November...
...regulations so that more farm goods would be kept at home. Business leaders at two minisummits in Pittsburgh and Detroit insisted on their right to raise prices and asked for greater depreciation allowances to increase production. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II proposed at least a five-year moratorium on most Government orders to install new safe ty and antipollution equipment in cars...
...Early demonstrations were confined to shouting and picketing at schools and mines. But when violence flared during the second week of protest, County School Superintendent Dr. K.E. Underwood closed the schools while he negotiated a truce with the protest leaders. Two days later, Horan agreed to a 30-day moratorium on using the books and the appointment of an 18-member citizens' review committee. But when school resumed, nearly 1,000 shouting demonstrators, led by other preachers, submitted a list of new demands, including immediate removal of the offending books, Underwood's ouster and the reinstatement of workers...