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Submarine loan to Taiwan backed by Rivers in House
Transcript shows Representative L Mendel Rivers steered a three submarine loan to Nationalist China into a warship bill. Debate reveals Nixon administration and State Department not involved, while Senate opposition loomed. Rivers pressed for a Pentagon letter confirming the action, and the committee passed the amendment and bill without dissent.
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Washington
UPSA
L. Mendel Rivers
D S.C
House Armed Services Committee
Taiwan
Nixon
State
Defense Departments
House
Senate
Inan
Russell Blandford
Armed Services
Privat
G.M. Hagerman
Navy
Hagerman
Blandford
Rivers