- search:
-
hoover.org
-
archives
-
library
<< Prev Program Details Next >>
| Program Number | S0963 |
| Title | Are We Demobilizing Too Fast? |
| PBS Number | 2231 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) O'Keefe, Sean. - Secretary of the Navy |
| Taped on | Mar 30, 1993 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | Apr 11, 1993 |
| Duration | 30 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
| YouTube Video |
no YouTube clip available |
| Summary | A year earlier, Les Aspin, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had attacked the Bush Administration for proposing an across-the-board reduction of the military, rather than a thorough post-Cold War rethinking. A few weeks before this show, Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, had ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to come up with $10 billion in cuts within one week. SO: "In many ways in [Secretary Aspin's] own terms it is a tread-water budget and program that has no fundamental difference in strategy, no different focus than what he inherited, but at the same time he intends to spend less on it. And every time we've done that, historically, we've lived to regret that." |
| Subject Heading(s) | United States. Dept. of Defense -- Appropriations and expenditures. United States -- Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
| Related Document(s) | Type(s): Transcript, news releases, CV, photos Type(s): Transcript Type(s): Research materials Type(s): Transcript |
| Purchase show | Program is unavailable on DVD at this time. |
| Transcript | Request a transcript |
