Chapter Sixteen
"Governor Connally, this question is on foreign policy-would you increase the amount of nuclear warheads and bombers stationed in US bases in Western Europe?"
"First of all, I think Carter's really let our defenses-outside central and eastern Europe especially-fall apart. I think we definitely need to send clear messages to the Soviets about what they're going to go up against if they threaten any NATO member state, but I don't think we necessarily need to increase the missile count or the bomber count over there to show it."
"Senator Buckley?"
"I, myself, don't either particularly desire to move more nuclear weapons to Germany or Britain or Spain, but we have to think clearly-if we want to defend the free world, we're going to have to increase the missile/bomber count significantly, and we're going to need to station them close to our enemies. You want to send a message-open an envelope."
-John Connally and James Buckley (1980)
"First of all, I think Carter's really let our defenses-outside central and eastern Europe especially-fall apart. I think we definitely need to send clear messages to the Soviets about what they're going to go up against if they threaten any NATO member state, but I don't think we necessarily need to increase the missile count or the bomber count over there to show it."
"Senator Buckley?"
"I, myself, don't either particularly desire to move more nuclear weapons to Germany or Britain or Spain, but we have to think clearly-if we want to defend the free world, we're going to have to increase the missile/bomber count significantly, and we're going to need to station them close to our enemies. You want to send a message-open an envelope."
-John Connally and James Buckley (1980)
