Lawmakers April 28 1983
Lawmakers April 28 1983
Lawmakers 4/28/1983
Lawmakers April 28 1983
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Lawmakers April 28 1983
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Lawmakers April 28 1983
Paul Duke, Linda Wertheimer, and Cokie Roberts. Topics on program: continued nuclear freeze debate, Reagan lobbies Congress for more aid to fight Communism in Latin America. Reagan s speech was bold, argued that U.S. must get more involved in Latin America.
Lawmakers April 28 1983
Paul Duke introduces Linda Wertheimer report - Reagan decided it was time to "rescue" his policies.
Lawmakers April 28 1983
March 10, 1983 Ronald Reagan giving press conference, large map of Central America next to his podium. we've discussed all of these issues and more with leaders and Members of the Congress. Their views have helped shape our own thinking. And I believe that we've developed a common course to follow. The nations of Central America are among our nearest neighbors. El Salvador, for example, is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts.
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Latin American Army marching in tight formation (El Salvador?). Shot of General and a suited man riding in a jeep overseeing the military parade. M/S a guerrilla aiming a bazooka in a city. L/S burning buildings. C/S soldier aiming machine gun out Helicopter window. L/S Helicopter (American-made) taking off in mountainous region. Salvadoran army.
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Senator Chris Dodd (D - Connecticut) in office, The administration is following a policy that allows the guys with the guns to determine the future of El Salvador, not the politicians.
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Senate committee hearing. Senator Jesse Helms (R - North Carolina) banging gavel to open hearing. The committee meeting. Fred Ikle, Undersecretary of Defense, testifying If we simply wash our hands of the conflict then indeed, Mr. Chairman, the military strength that the Soviets and the Cubans have assembled in the region is quite adequate to turn Central America into another Eastern Europe. Senator Joseph Biden (D - Delaware) in committee, It seems to me that in a sense you ve become your own worst enemy with all the rhetoric about the - it s not that El Salvador itself reminds people of Vietnam, it s what you all are saying that reminds people of Vietnam. It s talking about we re going to have an Eastern Europe in Latin America and the dominoes are falling - even if it s all true, I would have thought that you could have come up with something different.
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A bunch of daisies in front of Vietnam Memorial Wall. Pullback to show the wall of the memorial, a couple stands in edge of shot. M/S shows length of the Vietnam memorial.
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Representative David Bonior (D - Michigan), says (I hear from people my parent s age, my father s age) more than I do from younger people on this issue.
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Senator Daniel Inouye (D - Hawaii) in office, I m always haunted by the fact that I did support this conflict in the beginning because whether directly or indirectly my decision played a role in the death of men and the expenditure of our treasury. Daniel Inouye exiting his office suite.
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Senator Chris Dodd (D - Connecticut) in office, I think we are building a strong bipartisan coalition in Congress that transcends what the administration thinks is the traditional opponents of the administration on this issue.
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Representative Jim Leach (R - Iowa), The fact of the matter is that the American public are getting growingly concerned. The international public opinion is growingly concerned. And most importantly the results that are policy are leaning to be dramatically awful.
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DO NOT USE Formation of six Sandinista troops doing a goosestep march.
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Dec 8, 1982 Representative Edward Boland (D - Massachusetts) in debate in House, And what I can say is that your intelligence committee is as concerned about the substance of the allegations concerning paramilitary activates in Nicaragua and Central America as all of you
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Unidentified man entering White House.
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Representative Michael Barnes (D - Maryland), says Members who follow these issues closely are trying to look at the Central America policy as a whole and not simply isolate what are we doing in Guatemala or what are we doing vis-a-vis Nicaragua or El Salvador.
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Panel of House Foreign Affairs Committee. Panel of Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Panel of Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Representative Clarence Long (D - Maryland), House Appropriations Committee, chairing House committee hearing, Today we re meeting to vote on the administration s proposal to reprogram $60 million in foreign military sales credits to El Salvador.
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Representative Clarence Long (D - Maryland), House Appropriations Committee, never before we ve often spent many millions of dollars on aid to all kinds of countries. Never before we ever got anything for the money. This time we re getting a little something. We re getting some concessions from the administration.
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Representative Dave Obey (D - Wisconsin), House Appropriations Committee, very frankly once that ambassador is appointed, the administration will have an excuse to say to Congress, Look boys, you asked for this an now as long as we have an ambassador appointed at your request - you have an obligation to meet our funding requests.
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Representative Bob Livingston (R - Louisiana), House Appropriations Committee, if we make the wrong decision here today we are risking the collapse of the government in El Salvador and we are thereby risking the security of every man, woman and child in this country. I think that we should fulfill the President s complete request for $60 million.
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Representative Michael Barnes (D - Maryland), I think this addresses the kind of concerns that the members of Congress have about the political, social, economic problems of the region. If that s the principal focus of his (Reagan) speech, I think he ll get a very good reception. If on the other hand he gives his speech as the classic Republican - The Reds Are Coming - stump speech, I think he s going to get a very negative reception. And it will further divide people rather than pull people together.