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should make it hard for the Viet Cong to win in the south and simultaneously hard for Hanoi to endure our attacks in the north. I believe this course of action holds out the greatest promise we can hope for in our effort to attain our ultimate objective of finding a political solution to the
Vietnam problem.
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Vietnam badly enough to cause the Hanoi regime to seek a political way out through negotiation rather than expose their economy to increasingly serious levels of destruction. By limiting our attacks
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Vietnam so as to make the Communists pause to weigh the losses they are taking against their prospects for gains. We
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concurrently hit the north harder and inflict greater damage. In my opinion, we should strike their petroleum supplies, electric power installations, and air defense installations (including the SAM sites which are now being built).
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California Shipbuilding Corporation had made $ 44 million on an investment of $ 100,000. McCone's political affiliation was with the
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Francisco, California, on January 4, 1902. His father ran iron foundries across California, a business founded in Nevada in 1860 by McCone's grandfather. He graduated from the
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to targets like bridges, military installations and lines of communication, in effect we signal to the
Communists that our determination to win is significantly modified by our fear of widening the war.
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1177:. New York: Harper Perennial.
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