The Nation - News from Sept. 11, 1985
Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. told Congress that a 600-ship Navy is affordable and needed to offset a Soviet naval threat. “We have the right-size fleet under construction, we can maintain it . . . and we can afford it,” Lehman told the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee. His defense of the naval buildup came in the wake of a report by the Congressional Budget Office saying the Navy cannot hold to the pace of that program without continued budget increases.
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