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{) Kissinger 33 1 Command . 2 Q. Was that opposition on the part of the 3 Military scrutinized by your office in the 4 determination to recommend to the President the 5 termination of the use of herbicides. Was it 6 weighed and evaluated? 7 A. It was weighed, yes. 8 Q. t Did your office conclude -- did your 9 office conclude in the course of this assessment 10 that there was, indeed, a very substantial military 11 benefit that had been and was being derived from the 12 use of herbicides in Vietnam? 13 MR. O'BRIEN: Objection. 14 MR. DEAN: Object to the form. 15 A. We -- the Military certainly felt strongly 16 about the fact that there was a military benefit. 17 We had to weigh it against the overall foreign and 18 domestic policy we were considering, and so we 19 decided to overrule the Military without necessarily 20 questioning their military judgment. 21 Q. You say without necessarily questioning. 22 Do you recall whether your office, in fact, acceded 23 to or agreed with the Military's assessment of the 24 military benefit that was being derived from the use 25 of the product? w a g a a n d spinelli r P r fl'/i H