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From Buchanan To Al Snyder RE: Questions
for Senator McGovern. 2pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
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MCG EXTH.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 21, 1972
MEMORANDUM TO:
AL SNYDER
FROM:
PAT BUCHANAN
QUESTIONS FOR SENATOR MCGOVERN
WELFARE PROPOSALS
Senator: You introduced in the Senate a $6500 guaranteed income
program. And you publicly endorsed the Black Caucus program,
which contains that $6500 proposal. The Senate Finance Committee
has estimated that this would cost $64 billion dollars. Where would
you find the money?
Senator: The Sem te Finance Committee estimates that your $1000
per person welfare plan would put 97 million Americans on welfare,
and cost $52 billion dollars. Where are you going to get that kind
of money, without a massive increase in taxes along the board?
Senator: Mr. Eagleton, on Face the Nation, indicated that your
Democratic proposals would likely require a tax increase by 1974;
is this in addition to the proposed new taxes you would ask of
Congress in 1973?
Senator: Is not your recommendation to "regulate marijuana along
the same line S as alcohol, 11 a program for the legalization of
marijuana for the rich?
Senator: Does not your position that "abortion is a private matter
which should be decided by a pregnant woman and her own doctor"
mean your support for repeal of all state abortion laws?
Senator: You told the New York Times you would reverse the
President's order restricting abortions in military hospitals. Is
this not in contrast to what you have said Presidential action,
federal action, that is pro-abortion on demand?
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ISRAEL
Senator: How can you square your commitment to cut the Navy in
half and the carrier fleet down from 15 to 6 -- how can you possibly
deter the Soviets in the Middle East, with that kind of slash in the
chief deterrent to aggression in the Middle East?
DEFENSE
Senator: Your defense cuts would chop the Navy in half, the Marine
Corps by a third, U.S. troop strength in Europe 180, 000, knock out
the F-15, the F-14, the B-1 bomber. Do you consider all these
weapons systems as "fat" in the military budget -- or are they
"muscle" and "fibre" as Senator Humphrey stated?
Senator: On several occasions you have compared the President
with Adolph Hitler, and American policy in Asia with Hitler's
campaign to exterminate the Jews. Let me quote you: "I've said
many times that the Nixon bombing policy on Indochina is the most
barbaric action that any country has committed since Hitler's effort
to exterminate Jews in Germany in the 1930s. 11 Isn't that a smear
of the President?
Buchanan
cc:
Ken Khachigian