Hearings on Military Posture and a Bill (H.R. 9240), Ninetieth Congress, First Session: Hearings Before the Full CommitteeCommittee Serial No. 8. Considers H.R. 9240, to authorize appropriations for DOD in FY68 for military operations in Vietnam. Includes discussion of Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft program and Fast Deployment Logistic Ship Project. Classified material has been deleted. |
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Page 1090 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
Page 1090 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce...
Page 1068 - ... capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 673 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 966 - Use of these funds is authorized by the Secretary and accounted for on his certificate and Congress is informed as to their status.
Page 966 - This program reflects the costs of: (1) departmental headquarters, including those of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the services...
Page 415 - The Government of the United States being resolved to devote its efforts to the strengthening of peace in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations...
Page 415 - With respect to the statement made by the representative of the state of Vietnam, the United States reiterates its traditional position that peoples are entitled to determine their own future and that it will not join in an arrangement which would hinder this.
Page 649 - States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times...
Page 415 - Viet-Nam henceforth to play their part, in full independence and sovereignty, in the peaceful community of nations.