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- From: cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne)
- Subject: Re: Military info needed
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:48:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.170045.899@PacBell.COM> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
- >> ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Jack B. Nimble) writes:
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- >>Well, let's hope that Clinton has enough integrity to keep his campaign
- >>pledge. Already there are rumblings that Admiral Crowe, the Chief of
- >>Staff under Bush who defected to the Clinton camp, is attempting to
- >>persuade Clinton against issuing the executive order.
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- >>I can see the rationalization going something like: "Well, I really
- >>would like to, but our military has convinced me that we need to study
- >>the question for a while to determine the effect on the armed services
- >>as a whole."
-
- >I don't know how much more explicit Clinton has to be to
- >convince people that he's really going to overturn the ban.
- >At his news conference yesterday (Thursday 11/13), he said:
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- > Let me tell you what I'm going to do. My concern here is
- > to do it in a way that is most appropriate for the
- > management of the whole national security and military
- > interests of the country. I want to consult with a lot
- > of people about what our options are, including people
- > who may disagree with me about the ultimate merits. And
- > let me remind you one more time about how this all came up.
-
- In Today's paper:
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- Congressional leaders urged President-elect Clinton to go
- slow on overturning the military's ban... arguing that sudden
- action would create a furor in Congress and endanger lives
- in the armed forces.
-
- from Bob Dole "He ought to put it on the back burner--there are
- other things you can do that wouldn't blow the lid off the Capitol.
- I think this one might come close.
-
- and Sen Nunn "I think we ought to proceed very cautiously."
-
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- > Has anybody fone anything which
- > would disqualify them, whether it's Tailhook scandal or
- > something else? And so what I plan to do in an
- > appropriate fashion, in a prompt fashion, is to put
- > together a group of people and let them advise me about
- > how we might best do this. But I'm not going to change
- > my position on it.
-
- Charlie
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