Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969
The War Machine under Nixon
By I.F. Stone
In government the budget is the message. Washington's heart is where the tax dollar goes. When President Nixon finally, and very tardily, presented his first budget proposals in mid-April in a mini-State of the Union message, he said 'Peace has been the first priority.' But the figures showed that the first concern of the new Administration, as of the last, was still the care and feeding of the war machine.
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