Sunday, May 14, 1972
Country For Nixon On Viet - Finch
DETROIT (UPI) --Presidential advisor Robert E. Finch, admitting he was on "a selling program" Friday defended President Nixon's Vietnam mining policy, and said "most of the country is supporting this action."Finch said it was "incomprehensible" that a small bloc of senators want to enjoin the President from his latest policies."This isn't our offensive," said Finch. "They're the ones who launched this offensive with more than half a million men. That's more men than the Americans have taken out of Vietnam."Of the campus protests that followed Nixon's announcement he had mined North Vietnam ports to deny the Communists the weapons of war, Finch said "most of the protests are not anything like the scale of those that followed, for example, the Cambodian offensive."He said he believed the youth of the country understood that the President has kept every commitment he made concerning withdrawal of troops. "And they're pleased they're not getting drafted," he added."Country for Nixon on Viet - Finch", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 14, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.