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...First as a result of Califano's influence, and then on his own, Haig rose to a variety of important jobs; at one point he prepared briefings that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presented to the President and the National Security Council. Once the major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam began, Haig decided to heed the old maxim that no Army officer can rise to the top without experience in combat command, which he lacked despite some brief battle experience in Korea. He went to Viet Nam in 1966 and the next year led a battalion to victory...
Back from Viet Nam, Haig was again at West Point when he was recommended by Kraemer to Kissinger, then President Nixon's National Security Adviser...
...move would take too many soldiers off active duty when they were sorely needed. Sending U.S. advisers into the field was considered very risky; the death of an American soldier in a skirmish with the guerrillas would clearly escalate protests that the US was getting mired in another Viet...
...will find that most of the opposition has come from a minority. I don't mean to suggest by that that there is not a great deal of justified and strongly held concern among the American people about the situation in El Salvador, and the experiences of Viet Nam have certainly heightened this concern. We have to deal with it-with a great sensitivity to that concern...
...have said that this Administration has a mandate for change in foreign policy. Is the post-Viet Nam paralysis over...