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...preceding letter gives me an opportunity to convey to a wider audience several points that I have already emphasized before informal student groups...
While the authors of the Pentagon papers recorded an Administration moving secretly toward ever wider involvement and escalation in early 1965, Johnson's retrospective totally ignores that he ordered those policy changes kept quiet, that in fact he took the nation into a major war while billing the changes as an extension of older policy...
...they perceived to be brutally nationalistic U.S. policies-the 10% surtax on most imports, the proposed "buy American" investment credit at home, and the demand that other nations revalue their currencies upward against the dollar. A Canadian diplomat complained in Ottawa: "America seems to have acted without considering the wider implications, without a clear plan or purpose for the future...
Hoover had originally planned to conduct a wider distribution of pamphlet-style reprints of this article. After President Nixon announced his plans to travel to the People's Republic, however, the plans were dropped for "budgetary reasons," Hoover said...
...committee of intelligence experts, assembled by the White House with Hoover as chairman, met for weeks discussing ways of coping with foreign spies, racial unrest, campus disorders and leftists in the antiwar movement. Finally, the committee suggested a sweeping expansion of federal intelligence work. Specifically, the committee urged wider use of wiretapping, inspection of letters-"mail covers" -surreptitious entries and bag jobs. Sullivan sympathized with the committee's objectives. Hoover, although chairman, firmly dissented. The White House ordered the suggested policies implemented anyway, but Hoover, appealing to Mitchell, managed to have the White House directive withdrawn. Hoover was infuriated...