On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:35:11PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Christina Romer, chair of Obama's CEA, earlier today: "I think people are
> perhaps seeing some light at the end of the tunnel."
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> <http://ehistory.osu.edu/vietnam/books/aiv/0028.cfm>
> In November [1967], as their plans gelled, General Westmoreland embarked on
> a whirlwind tour of the U.S. to testify before Congress and drum up support
> for the Johnson Administration. "With 1968," he said, speaking before the
> National Press Club in Washington, "a new phase is starting .. we have
> reached an important point where the end begins to come into view." In a
> televised news conference, he used the phrase "light at the end of the
> tunnel" to describe improved U.S. fortunes, repeating almost word-for-word
> a prognostication made by French General Henri Navarre in May of 1953.
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