Volume 21, Number 10 · June 13, 1974
The Defense Confidence Game
By Alexander Cockburn, Mary Kaldor
Report of the Secretary of Defense, James R. Schlesinger, to the Congress on the FY 1975 Defense Budget and FY 1975-1979 Defense Program
US Government Printing Office, $2.60
Although it would be frivolous to devote extensive space to the purely stylistic aspects of James Schlesinger's 1975 defense budget we should note at the outset that his prose is that of a man visibly animated by strong and eccentric emotions. One would not expect someone who spends his hours of relaxation listening to tape recordings of bird song, and his hours of worship at the Lutheran church making careful notes on the sermon, to produce merely humdrum requests for money.[1]
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