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“Oh I don’t know—they’re so pathetic...”
His thoughts in regard to the latest presidential election: “Walter had a bad time; he wasn’t really the victim of the party, the party was sort of the victim of Walter—not just Walter alone— but the things he had to defend were things he’d pretty much (always) been for.” So it wasn’t as if “he (Mondale) had inherited the Vietnam war” and had to defend it. “In this case the policies he advocated were the policies most under attack.”
Turning his thoughts to U.S./Soviet relations and specifically to the Geneva arms talks, McCarthy pointed out the irony in such meetings between the superpowers. ‘We’re into it again; everytime we get into disarmament negotiations we wind up with some new weapons—they’re always introduced as bargaining chips... ”
He complained, though, that whenever we get a weapon as a bargaining chip its production continues indefinitely. “They never stop producing them, they deploy them. Carter was going to disarm us in Salt II, and we wound up with the Cruise missile, the Neutron bomb” and almost the Mobile MX. “He wanted it but didn’t quite get it.”
“Those are the three things that came out of the Carter disarmament conference,” McCarthy quipped. “Now Reagan is starting a disarmament conference and Congress has given him 21 MX missiles just to open the talks.” And “The Belgians have now deployed Cruise missiles, so that’s another move toward disarmament.”
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