Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first or last year of his tenure, any President who wants to pass a bill, build a budget, construct a program, negotiate a treaty or persuade the Congress must be political or else he is impotent...
...should not have. El Salvador is clearly not another Viet Nam. The superficial parallels are outweighed by some very real differences. Among them: El Salvador is not a sprawling jungle 8,000 miles from American shores, the junta is conscientiously trying to carry out an agrarian reform program, and the 4,000 leftist guerrillas are not backed by a force the size of the North Vietnamese army. Nonetheless, President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have invested high stakes in a guerrilla war in a republic the size of Massachusetts. By waging a campaign against "indirect armed aggression...
...Administration was inaugurated. This was the place to try to halt Soviet adventurism, he argued. Some White House advisers-including top Aides James Baker and Edwin Meese-were initially reluctant to initiate a highly visible foreign policy thrust while the Administration was trying to focus attention on its economic program. But they succumbed to the argument, put by one top presidential aide: "You can't abdicate the conduct of foreign policy no matter what the domestic priorities...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was accorded a warm reception from the Senate Armed Services Committee as he outlined what he called "the second half of the Administration's program to revitalize America." The man who earned a reputation as "Cap the Knife" for his stingy ways as Richard Nixon's Budget Director seemed now to relish his role as a generous dispenser of military goodies...
...most spectacular shift in the Pentagon's long-range plans is a sharply accelerated shipbuilding program. Declared Weinberger: "We must have naval superiority. Control of the seas is as essential to our security as control of their land borders is to the Soviet Union." The goal is a fleet of some 600 ships by 1990, compared with today's 456. That increase would give the U.S. 15 naval battle groups,** three more than at present. According to Navy Secretary John Lehman, it would permit the U.S. to challenge the Soviet navy even in the northern seas between Iceland...