Lawmakers Nov 10 1983
Lawmakers Nov 10 1983
Lawmakers 11/10/1983 - Grenada
Lawmakers Nov 10 1983
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Lawmakers Nov 10 1983
Paul Duke, Cokie Roberts, and Linda Wertheimer list on program: Foreign Policy and budget debates rage overshadowed by a capitol bombing and telecommunications reform.
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Cokie Roberts intro report on Congressional fact finding mission to Grenada, returning a finding that the invasion was appropriate.
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The fact-finding team on a runway. Representative Tom Foley (D - Washington) before the mission, We have members on this delegation who supported the invasion or intervention and criticized it. Our purpose is not to come back with a policy judgment. Our purpose is to try and increase the consensus on what the facts were and are rather than make determinations on policy.
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Air Force One taxiing on a runway and taking off.
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Representative Mark Siljander (R - Michigan) Well we want to see for ourselves exactly what was happening and what may happen to try to piece the series of events together. Tip O Neill through Whip Foley went to Grenada with 9 democrats and 5 republicans. There were 4 republicans, we evened up the score.
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Tom Foley (D - Washington), Tip O Neill (D - Massachusetts), and Robert Michel (R - Illinois) in Speaker's office. A meeting of the group.
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Representative Michael Barnes (D - Maryland) We had a very intensive four days. We left Washington, we left Andrews Airforce Base very early Friday morning, flew straight to Barbados (changed to a military aircraft and went over to Grenada).Aerial of Grenada. Tom Foley (D - Washington) and Robert Michel (R - Illinois) exiting a jet. Foley greeting a Marine Officer in Grenada. Shots of Congressional delegation walking through hills near military compound in Grenada.
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Congressmen in a Marine Corps briefing in Grenada. Marine officer speaking, We have uncovered an excessive amount of Soviet weaponry, munitions, and the evidence again, of both political indoctrination and military tactics which concentrated on US forces as the enemy.
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Congressmen getting into a van. Drive by of a mountainous road in Grenada with a sign placed on roadside reading "Communism Stops Here". Congressman meeting with a group of Grenadian women.
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Men sitting on the ground behind barbed wire. US Marine stopping a driver in Grenada and searching his car.
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Congressmen visiting a bombed hospital in Grenada.
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Conservative delegation of Congressmen receiving military briefing and inspecting cache of weapons seized in Grenada.
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A harbor in Grenada.
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White House lawn rally for the returned students from Grenada. One student speaking that he's appreciative of the military. I think a lot of us who don t have a first-hand view are often skeptical when we here our military is involved in a faraway place. We don t always understand why our soldiers are fighting abroad. Well let me say that I have learned a lot from this experience.
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President Ronald Reagan speaking about the students returned from Grenada, A great many of you said you believed you d be dead or held hostage today if it weren t for the courageous men whose business it is to be courageous - our soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen.
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White House lawn rally for the returned students from Grenada, include President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.
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Representative Michael Barnes (D - Maryland), (I think the fact that the US citizens on Grenada really were in danger - or had very good reason to believe they were in danger - was an adequate justification for the President taking the action that he took.
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Representative Ron Dellums (D - California) in press conference says, Based upon the initial information we had, I took the position that American people should aggressively oppose this action as a thinly veiled effort to exploit and use tiny Black Caribbean countries in a larger geo-political struggle that pointed out the militarization, or the further militarization, of American foreign policy. So I went on this trip to determine whether the initial position that I took was correct or incorrect. People then asked the obvious question upon return - Has your position changed? No, it has not changed, for several reasons. The first being this, the inquiry is not complete.
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Representative Mark Siljander (R - Michigan), The advantage of a fact finding mission is clearly to sense the attitude - not only what we can hear on the television and see and read in the newspapers and debate on the floor - but to sense where are there hearts? What are their attitudes? And we did that while we were there. To see Fort Rupert and to smell death and to see body parts - is a horrible thing to do, but it certainly brings close to home the horror of revolution.
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Representative Michael Barnes (D - Maryland), I know that Congressional travel is controversial, but there is no way you can learn as much in Washington about what happened in Grenada as you can learn in Grenada. And learn in the neighboring islands. We spent some time in Barbados meeting with the Prime Ministers of the neighboring countries. I learned more in four days on this little, short, long weekend, than I could learn in a couple of years of Congressional hearings in Washington.
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Paul Duke remarks that Congress seems "sold" on the idea that Grenada Invasion was justified. Paul Duke, Cokie Roberts, and Linda Wertheimer discuss political reasons for support and other Latin American policies. There is concern that Reagan might be tempted to use more force elsewhere in Latin America after the Grenada success.