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IssueVol. 033 Issue 006 (June 1 1969)
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Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE "you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free': A Crisis of Conscience A Prologue by The Editors The control of military arms is undoubtedly the most important...
Paid articleThe People versus the Pentagon
George, Senators
The People versus the Pentagon by Senators George S. McGovern and Gaylord A. Nelson and Representatives George Brown, Jr., Phillip Burton, John Conyers, Jr., Don Edwards, Donald M. Fraser, Robert...
Paid articleThe Confrence Opens
The Conference Opens Rosenthal: Concern and indignation have brought us together today. The country is daily growing more impatient about the size of the defense budget and its social effects. We,...
Paid articleDistortion of National Priorities
Goodwin, Richard
Distortion of National Priorities Goodwin: We are not the first generation to ponder the question of national priorities. In fact, perhaps our own best guide is a document 180 years old. What are...
Paid articleCongress is Walking Up
Congress Is Waking Up Nelson: This country, as Richard Goodwin said, has a long background and heritage as peaceful people. I hear so often the charge that we have become a welfare state. Now, if...
Paid articleThe High Price of Secrecy
The High Price of Secrecy York: I also start from the position that in the present world we need military technology. The problem is not how to get rid of it in its entirety, but rather how to...
Paid article'Scaring the Hell Out of Everybody'
'Scaring the Hell Out of Everybody' Galbraith: We shall have accomplished little if we get out of Vietnam and leave uncontrolled the influences that were responsible for this disaster, for the Bay...
Paid articleA Ceiling on Arms
A Ceiling on Arms Falk: There are at least two kinds of pressures, in my judgment, that have consistently led to a distortion of priorities and to excess appropriations for military purposes. The...
Paid articleNational Security State
Raskin, Marcus
National Security State Raskin: I was pleased to hear Dick Goodwin refer to the crackpot Keynesian which came out of Harvard— Goodwin: That is not my adjective. Raskin: I think it comes to that....
Paid articleDevil's Advocate
Devil's Advocate Brown: We are going to have a problem of discontinuity here, but earlier I was going to make a point bearing on the question of overseas troop commitments and military bases. I...
Paid articleFalse Concepts in Foreign Policy
False Concepts in Foreign Policy Neal: What has been said is that there can't be any reorientation of foreign policy unless there is a re-examination of some fundamental assumptions which underlie...
Paid articleDo We Have a National Purpose?'
'Do We Have a National Purpose?' Walinsky: Thus far, it seems to me, the discussion has assumed that our foreign problems have posed certain challenges to us and that our responses, while perhaps...
Paid articleHow the Arms Race Works
Stone, Jeremy
How the Arms Race Works Stone: The Department of Defense has become an inventor and a merchandiser of exaggerated fears. It has become an unscrupulous lobbyist for the weapons to answer those...
Paid articleThe Need for Civilian Control
Kistiakowsky, George
The Need for Civilian Control Kistiakowsky: It has been traditional, and I don't think exclusively in the United States, for military planners to make tentative plans and proposals on the basis of...
Paid articleClassified Information Is Often Wrong
Classified Information Is Often Wrong Goodwin: I want to say something briefly about the problem of the classified information and the extent to which we can have public debate about military...
Paid articleSmall, Secret Decisions Often Generate Crises
Small, Secret Decisions Often Generate Crises Kahin: Could I refer to two things Mr. Goodwin said before? One was the comment that once the nation has a military capacity, there is a disposition to...
Paid articleMissile Madness
Missile Madness Schultze: I think Jeremy Stone is eminently correct. There is a time-bomb limitation on the MIRV. In the long run the MIRV is much more important than ABM, at least insofar as the...
Paid articleThe Pentagon's Shopping List
Schultze, Charles
The Pentagon's Shopping List Schultze: Let me summarize one aspect of the cost of maintaining our present and projected national security institutions—that is, the budgetary cost^and relate that to...
Paid articlePaths to Peace in Vietnam
Paths to Peace in Vietnam Kahin: So far as the political facts of life in Vietnam are concerned, most of the American public—and, I'm afraid, a great many members of Congress— have been led by...
Paid articleOur Vietnam Policy Remains Unchanged
J. William Fulbright is a member of the U.S. Senate from Arkansas. Our Vietnam Policy Remains Unchanged Fulbright: We have been preoccupied with the ABM hearings. Vietnam, as far as Congress is...
Paid articleChanging Moods
Changing Moods Galbraith: I would like to respond just for a moment to my distinguished friend. I have sensed a note of pessimism and almost of despair which, to use Marcus Raskin's phrase, is, I...
Paid articleA General Demands:Get Out of Vietnam
A General Demands: Get Out of Vietnam Ford: I would like to make two proposals for strengthening national security: First, get out of Vietnam. Second, ditch the ABM. The war in Vietnam has divided...
Paid articleIdeas for Curbing Pentagon Power
Ideas for Curbing Pentagon Power Edwards: The national security state is a subject that is larger than either Vietnam or ABM. It is perhaps the most important subject on the national agenda,...
Paid articleThe Time Is Now
The Time Is Now Neal: It has been my experience for a long time that Congress would buy anything in the name of defense and anti-Communism. And I am not sure that has yet been changed, or that it...
Paid articleWhy Youth Raises Hell
Nelson, Gaylord
Why Youth Raises Hell Nelson: We have been talking about how difficult it would be to change directions, to bring under control the so-called military-industrial complex; how difficult it is to...
Paid articlePolitical Realities
Political Realities Morgenthau: I fully agree with Senator Nelson's assessment of the public mood. But I also fully agree with Senator Fulbright's and Representative McCarthy's assessment of the...
Paid articleSo The People May Know
So The People May Know Schultze:Two themes with a lot of variations have been running through this Conference. They are not necessarily contradictory in all respects, but I think in terms of...
Paid articleCountry with Soul'
George McGovern is a member of the U.S. Senate from South Dakota. Country with Soul' McGovern: On my way into the building I noticed an old car with a bumper sticker on it saying, "Let's build our...
Paid articleSumming It Up
56 Summing It Up Larson: Our discussions have ranged from the most urgent current issues of foreign and military policy to the most far-reaching inquiries into the kind of society Americans want...
Paid article'Our Business Is with Life, not Death'
'Our Business Is with Life, not Death' An Epilogue by The Editors The Editors of The Progressive deliberated carefully before deciding to characterize the contents of this special issue as...
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