We're still looking at four more days of water on our dikes.
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Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
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Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.
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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
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