Military Cold War Education and Speech Review Policies: Hearings Before the Special Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session... |
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Page 510 - ... By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority, and in conformity with his orders.
Page 493 - This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
Page 495 - Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty, to resort, for repose and security, to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing...
Page 442 - Secretary and shall function under the direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense.
Page 508 - In such cases, their acts are his acts; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which executive discretion may be used, still there exists, and can exist, no power to control that discretion. The subjects are political: they respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.
Page 767 - So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Page 492 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Page 413 - No speech, press release, or other public statement concerning foreign policy should be released until it has received clearance from the Department of State.
Page 711 - Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!
Page 572 - In addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Gold Stars and the Air Medal with two Gold Stars, Rear Admiral Connolly has the American Defense Service Medal ; the American Campaign Medal ; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal ; the World War II Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.