This is not only $400 million more than your goal, than had been expected, but it occurred at the very same time that you were building up a military force of some 350,000 in Southeast Asia, 10,000 miles away from here, and providing them with all the massive support and materiel that they have required.
Remarks at the Department of Defense Cost Reduction Ceremony.
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