Defense Issues, Volume 12

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American Forces Information Service, 1997

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Page 7 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is a privilege for me to appear before you today to discuss the Navy and the Marine Corps program of research and development for fiscal year 1963.
Page 7 - ... submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment, (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual...
Page 20 - Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological...
Page 7 - The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world — and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own Nation.
Page 7 - ... be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
Page 7 - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Page 7 - ... significant US deterrent force. We do not see a near-term ballistic missile threat to US territory from the so-called rogue nations, but we cannot be complacent about this assessment. The threat of long-range missiles from rogue nations could emerge in the future. The Intelligence Community estimates that this threat would take 15 years to develop, but could be accelerated if those nations acquired this capability from beyond their borders. This no longer makes sense.
Page 20 - There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

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