A New Set Of National Priorites
January, 1971
Only a few months after the first, withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, President Nixon's advisors predicted that the end of the war--which cost between 25 and 30 billion dollars a year at its peak--would result in none of the windfalls that had been expected for new domestic programs beyond those few already announced. "I'm afraid that the peace dividend tends to become evanescent, like the morning clouds around San Clemente," said urban-affairs advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan....
