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Students graduating from high school learned that they would not have access to the essentially free education that many of their classmates would receive thanks to scholarships. Students were being told that college wasn’t an option because their parents came from another country. Not surprisingly, they were pissed...
...back of his mind. It was in the back of my mind, at least. And yet he was between a rock and a hard place. He had to end the war, he ruled out the use of ground troops, and all he had was the nuclear option...
...must have unquestioned superiority. Two, the place involved in the conflict must be of supreme American interest. Three, a conventional option must not be available. Four--and this may be the biggest factor--the President of the U.S. must have credibility. Korea fit in all respects. But the main thing was that the Russians did not want to mess with Eisenhower. Lyndon Johnson made this point rather sadly once when I had breakfast with him in 1969. He was talking about the bad advice he got about halting the bombing in Viet Nam. He said that Averell Harriman came...
...achieve those ends, I had also to consider how to end that war in Viet Nam. One of the options was the nuclear option, in other words, massive escalation: either bombing the dikes or the nuclear option. Of course, there was a third option: withdrawal. Get out. Blame Viet Nam on the Democrats. I rejected the withdrawal option because it would have been inconsistent with our foreign policy interests. At the other end of the spectrum, I ruled out bombing the dikes and the nuclear option. I rejected the bombing of the dikes, which would have drowned 1 million people...
...with what was considered "hard evidence" against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, Administration hard-liners pressed for a retaliatory air strike after the café killings. President Reagan, however, declined for fear of killing civilians and alarming U.S. allies in Latin America. According to one well-placed U.S. official, the bombing option "never got that close." Instead, the Administration "put Nicaragua on notice" that it would be held responsible for any future attacks on Americans in Honduras or El Salvador. HEALTH Patients Clog the Hotlines...