FIRST: Fresh from SALT negotiating team technical advisory duties & returning to his tenured chair @ the USC Department of International Relations – then Professor Bill Van Cleave wrote a scathing indictment of the US Arms Control & DIsarmament Agency’s white-wash via “COLD DAWN” in the “Orbis” quarterly. It was ignored at our peril even today!

SECOND: On direction from The White House itsel, the USAF successfully tested a “mobile ICBM launch” from a high-flying cargo plane and a Minuteman II missile. ON THAT SUCCESS – the program, which could have been used as an arms control negotiating ploy or strategem, was then cancelled by orders from HAK!

THIRD: The Anti-satellite Satellite (ASAT) multi-staged missile launched at igh alttitue froman F-15 fighter to “a point in space” ALSO SUCCEEDED — ONLY TO BE ALSO CANCELLED – again, on orders from HAK!

FOURTH: The “Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)” sites at Conrete and Nekoma, North Dakota had achieved ‘Interim Operational Capability’ (IOC) during July, 1975. THEY, TOO. were fully compliant with terms of “The ABM Treaty” (1972) its “Protocol” (1974) – both in effect at that time.

THOSE two (2) North Dakota “Safeguard BMD” SITES – WITHIN 24 hours – were de-commissioned, during the new Ford Administration early days!

NO VOTES were available in a Democrat-controlled Congress to restore and/or then divert the modest annual O&M fudning for that legal BMD site – in “a deal” cut between HAK and the late US Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) = placing those funds in a defense study contract for MIT’s Center for International Studies (in Cambridge, MA) “to ‘prove’ BMD won’t work”! SO MUCH for the Constitutional mandate “to provide for the common defense” even when those BMD sites were fully in compliance with ” ABM Treaty”!

FIFTH: Early in the Nixon – Ford Administrations’ transfers of power, HAK held BOTH the White House’s national security adviser AND the US Secretary of State chairs!

It took frmer Congressman (R-WYOMING) nd icoming Ford White House CHief of Staff DICK CHENEY to point out the obvious = Such “dual roles” represented a clear an present cnlct of interest.

HAK was gien the option – EITHER . OR _ BUT NOT BOTH!

HAK chose the many lucrative travel opportunities – at our taxpayers’ dime – now afforded the US Secretary of State for the remainder of public office and his over-rated (IMHO) so-called “diplomatic legacy” which he holds today!

FOR GOD’s SAKE – WHY? Why, indeed?

With that kind of over-rted, LIberal East, academic policy advice and ‘leasdership’ [argably!] to President Nixon at the highet levels of US governance – no wonder the Harvard prof screwed up repeatedly on the job!

Afer three maticulously foot-noted and documented “kiss and tell” award winning memoirs in office – which became immeidately beloved by other policy wonks & academic wannabes or hangers-on — due to their “insider’ [sic.] details = I AM REMINDED THAT IN ONE CONCISE SENTENCE CONTAINED IN “RN” – President Nixon put HAK In his proper place.

PRESIDENT NIXON WROTE: [PARAPHRASING] “For all he has written, Henry forgot one thing = THE PRESIDENT MAKES POLICY, not the advisors”!

WELL WRIT and well stated, IMHO!

AND LEST WE FORGET – That South-East Asian War – in three countries (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) – was presided over by no less than five (5!!!) U. S. Presidents.

ALL OF THEM were World War II veterans!

And they call themselves “The Greatest Generation”!

For God-sakes WHY?

In West Los Angeles, on entering the Main VA Hospital [Building 500] — High above the main entrance is this phrase = “THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ON DISPLAY HERE”!

As indeed it is – daily! FULLY 24/7!