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One thing I can say about the Great Society it sure is Creed up all night weding this one dick uh this is one speech I’ll gladly [Applause] disavow got a clip in here quotes my honorable defeated opponent Senator goart calls my secretary defense an IBM machine with a l ER [Applause]
Rers I stand here tonight to tell you that I regard Bob mcnamar here as not only one of the smartest but one of the most Humane men I know and that goes for all my Blue Ribbon man you see here tonight yeah never in our history has there been such
An abundance of brains and talent why I got three or four Road Scholars four or five graduates of Harvard a couple from Yale and why there’s even one here tonight from Southwest Texas State teachers college and don’t you know that one rose the RO [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] the of are upon you Gabriel close his watch broken Jack coming it timing what the Applause he’ll [Applause] ask in a Land of great wealth families must not live in Hopeless poverty in a land rich in Harvest children just must not go hungry in a Land of healing Miracles
Neighbors must not suffer and die untended in a great land of learning and Scholars young people must be taught B more volume please Mr President I want to hear every brilliant word that dick Goodwin wrote for your marvelous speech Goodwin who told you Goodwin wrote that speech a dozen people work in my
Speeches nobody more than I do while Jack here has been riding some of my best stuff for seven years my Penance for marrying away his last secretary but thank you for the credit Mr President night Jak good night Mr President yearsor good night Jake the resources I have I have Vision they fought
Against I have learned yeah good wind rope may be worded too will mhm great being one Society the other smart son of a [ __ ] got that out of a book before this generation I’ll listen to me and listen well you’re a good friend I don’t to see you retire prematurely but as
This reception plainly shows you the American people ain’t going to stand for you fellas on the other side of the aisle dragging your feet in any of my programs now FDR pass a handful of bills in these first 100 days I’m going to pass a bucketful poverty education
Healthare here and I’m going to finish what I started on civil rights too I’m telling you Jim Crow put a collar on more smart men sure as able send us to an Illinois chain gang oh oh oh I take offense sir we are most Humane to our condemned the Great Society as my
Beautiful woman have and I’m taking it by the arm and as the greatest Republican leader of this Century ever Durk is going to take it by the other and help me escort that lady home and knowing what is likely then to ensue Mr President
That is where I shall take my leave L I apologize for interrupting I thought perhaps you’d like some sandwiches from the kitchen Mrs Johnson my most abject apologies I have kept your husband far too long on this most festive occasion no Mr President heartfelt congratulations sir it night good night now
Then you will have for in abundance what we learned in theocracy rests on faith Freedom ask more than giv the Judgment of God it was a wonderful speech full of such hope and promise did good when asked what I thought and I told him it was a magnificent
Job and you delivered it so very well thank yes you Do 900 p.m. unless you’re hear from me morning how are you that for me thank you good morning morning morning Mr secretary what have we got here a crisis in every Capital uh just one this is one cable not quite here’s the rest of it situation in Vietnam is continuing to
Deteriorate we’ve been able to keep the noise level down since your campaign but my guess is you’ll be faced with a tough decision soon yeah soon I got 19 million older folks can’t see a doctor 33 million under the poverty line I can’t have Congress distracted now ask you very soon Mr
President I hate to have to report this to you but Max Taylor says here that uh Viet Kong enlistment is increasing rapidly and that Saigon can’t continue much longer to provide security for our advisers down there and fight an Insurgency at the same time why not how
Many men to South Vietnam have out there fighting 200,000 VC have about 34,000 well how the hell can 34,000 lick 200,000 well historically a 10 to1 ratio minimum is required for a Guerilla situation and there’s no way that South Vietnam could achieve that on their own now we’ve kept our powder dry through
The elections and the holidays waiting for some stability in the South waiting for the cycle of coups to end during which we’ve had five killed in the attack at benois two at our Saigon officers quarters and scores wounded with no retaliation from us whatsoever now wheeler the other Chiefs West
Morland are fit to be tied as you know and now this from Ambassador Taylor you might send Mac Bundy to Saigon to have a talk with him I’d make another trip myself but I’m in the middle of the defense budget right now I don’t want to see the word Vietnam in
That Dam D budget well you know I’d do that if I could in fact it’s becoming increasingly difficult to conceal all I want to know is this what’s it going to take to get hoi man to quit that’s all I want to know Mr President it’s clear to me now
That the answer is sustained military action in the air and if that doesn’t work on the ground this is the decision you were going to have to face Mr President and as I said very soon I’m afraid keep me up the DAT mob turn that thing off listen let
Medicare speech of [ __ ] cut out the Goble and sex it up maybe good one ought to take a crack at Goodwin’s got three months of assignments oh I just put the last of those on your Des Miss president I’d be glad to look it over if you like
Me to all right put the music to it dck Jack I want you to tell him to stop taking credit for every goddamn word I say absolutely Mr President all right come on schedule me your haircut surely and see if you can get Clark Clifford here for dinner converting from Protestant to
Catholic is a big step actually lenon took better than I did I was quite surprised well both you and Daddy change your religion from one Protestant denomination to another it was a matter of convenience and schooling well I don’t religion should be a matter of convenience and this is a
Private matter Lucy you’re finishing up at Texas aren’t you Linda next year ma’am she’s dating George Hamilton you know the actor yeah with a tag and your sister may consider that private matter too oh mother you must be joking later come on now damn it we threes in this time you have the
Qualifications to be CIA director I decide the qualifications you had all the qualifications to be attorney general didn’t you to succeed Bobby candy yeah there I am stuck with a friend of his cats him back he’s excellent well all right you told me your interest is foreign affairs but
That’s where I need your help Foreign Affairs what is CIA but foreign fears I think my skills would better serve you in foreign policy Mr President not foreign Intrigue I hear you build a million dollars last year first FL in the country to do that true well that’s what 5% came
To well hell then before you can afford to take your hiat from all this money making come serve your prid I don’t think you need an attorney old friend I think you need a magician magician yeah someone who can make a small corner of Southeast Asia disappear President Kennedy do not lose
South Vietnam and I’m not going to lose South Vietnam I kept all these people on he assured me he was determined to stick it out now that little son of a [ __ ] Bobby’s just hovering to swoop down and reclaim the manle of a fail get hang
With my left bow C water hang from my ride that is complete nonsense you humiliated Goldwater in the election the entire right wing is in disarray Bobby is a freshman Senator with no record his brother was a no record Senator too was he he came out of nowhere
Daddy would you like some dessert or you on your di you you saved some for me honey it was it was good how about you Mr cord he’s not getting anything now Jack Kandy we 16,000 advisors in there I put in another eight we’ve got 24,000 now teaching them people out shooting fly
Planes we got patrols and covert operations we got an alphabet sub vade programs a lot of which I’d like to have right here and none of it’s working there all this C [ __ ] it’s like building bricks with no mortar down there there’s nothing real to hand
On now hoim in knows this and he’s going to keep his people tacking till there’s nothing there now we call it quits continue as we are South Vietnam maybe the whole of Southeast Asia goes communist not now even George ball admits that everybody else thinks we ought to up the Annie B
This bunch of sheds just outside inm and they call that a military Target there a school right up the street polls build for him hell Clark I could build him a thousand damn schools I’d like you to start to follow the situation down there read some of
These reports they keep throwing at me I just don’t know what to believe anymore biggest damn mess and being on the outside you could take a fresh look everything I can to help yeah except come work for me hey what about the Supreme Court what about seat opens up I’m an advocate I’m
Not a judge CL you’re a hick lawyer from Missouri well I may be a heck lawyer from Missouri but as you yourself pointed out I haven’t made Missouri wages for a long long time you know I ran saying I was for peace now sure as hell they’re telling me I got to
Do what I said I wasn’t going to do what goldw was going to do Lucy’s converting to Catholicism big decision for a young girl told me he said when the Press gets hold of it they make it sound as if she did it as a tribute to the
Candidates I swear I think he was only half joking Clark hello I’m sorry uh he’s asleep he’s just gotten over pneumonia I’d rather not wake him I I know is it is it possible Mark sorry Bob must be pretty damn bad to keep you at home let’s just call it the Hanoi flu what the hell’s going on
Here General two core headquarters at plou VI Kong cut through the wire blew up our advisor Barracks planes choppers on the runway and Camp Holloway casually more the same advisor compound next door BC got in with mortars and grenade launchers they eight dead 100 12 plus wounded six Choppers One Transport
Destroyed other aircraft severely damaged Mr secretary the National Security advisor in saon is he not didn’t the CIA say Hanoi would connect Bundy’s visit with the decision on bombing VI aong agents in Saigon government probably leaked it out and knowing this knowing this look what they did Bob they blew up 128
People just a thumb their noses at us now what the hell are we going to do about it number 33 the North Vietnamese Barracks at dong Hoy just over the Border in North Vietnam about 6,000 troops based there an isolated facility with minimal civilian support what are expected
Casualties 3600 troops uh roughly 40 civilians I had to come up with these numbers sir we take the approach look at the blast pattern size of the blast demographics Mr President it’s as sophisticated an analysis as I’ve seen unprecedented in aerial Warfare but OG you is not going to turn tail overnight
Saigon’s going to take a sh for anything we do and if they go in now it be like sending in a widow woman to slap jack damsey sir we doubt Hanoi will slap back didn’t MacArthur say the same thing where me and Chinese poured into Korea what a state think of
This the risk of inaction means more aggression Ambassador Taylor concurs he’s meeting with Saigon’s leaders now should be calling The Situation Room momentarily they’ll put him through to me Mr President if I might I was in charge of bombing surveys during World War II and bombing never wins a war
Rather than erode the enemy’s will it strengthens it we’ve seen this time and time again in the blitz Berlin the Blitz in Berlin never would have happened if we didn’t lay down to Hitler at Munich and if we lay down now it’ll be the same thing again an open invitation to more
Their aggression Mr President what we’re proposing with rolling thunder is a strictly Limited program of sustained retaliation moving northward only if Viet Kong activity persists but it will persist Bob we’ll be bombing their cities before we know it now do we expect Russia to sit still for that or
China comparisons with Korea 15 years ago are flimsy at best Mr pres you are absolutely right China has Atomic weapons now they tested their first bomb four months ago it was no dud we have no idea what will set them off I I don’t understand why is this North Vietnam has
Has secret treaties with the chicoms Mr President we don’t know what the flas points are in their intervention we can take China out in 17 minutes they’d be crazy to take us on I agree bus but why assume they’re as rational as we are Mr President 400 Americans have died in
Vietnam and now eight more in these atrocities there has to be a response to this aggression Mr President the Air Force will be launching strikes from the daang Airfield and that base will become a more attractive Target to the vetcon General West Morland is requesting a hawk missile Battalion is he asking for
Troops no no troops Saigon will be responsible for base defense but if the Viet Kong activity intensifies despite these measures they may need some help but it will intensify Bob this is precisely my point Mr President yes Mr secretary Saigon Ambassador Taylor put him through Max we’re all here with the president go
Ahead Mr President gentlemen Saigon has agreed to the commencement of air strikes they say their army is ready for any Counterattack from the north all right Max thank you George your concerns are mine as well as you know but but nowhere near the point you suggest and many here agree it’s a
Good chance that hoi men will quit if we start making him pay now is there anyone here who’s not agreed with this I’m concerned about the Press they’re going to view this as a change in policy there is no change in policy but we haven’t struck back since the tonen gulf Affair
6 months ago that’s right that’s when I asked Congress for the power they gave me the power now I’m using it but we’re taking it slow I’m not going to H one and I’m signing off on every Target you’re not going to bomb the smallest out housee without checking
With me you understand General we understand Mr President all right Bob you better get going now anything Else from Robert S magnam to Admiral us Grant sharp commander of Pacific forces Honolulu this is an execution order during daylight hours 7 February 1965 Saigon time conduct the following coordinated attack number 33 dong Hoy Barracks good evening Mr President plans back carriers weren’t on station when the order went out sir the operation has been delayed delayed about 90 minutes sir we should have a word Shortly well what happened it’s monsoon season there sir are they going or aren’t they going you find out what the hell’s going on you call me get the White House up and put you through you want me to wake you sir you won’t wake me why you up word for
You I was playing should have been back hours ago what’s that it’s a letter from a friend complaining about junkyards she says here they’re all up and down the highway now through Dallas San Anton Houston right on the highway or away where people can’t see no right along the road
Defiling the countryside through wax Hatchy and hillbo and lovely Sound Marcus where you went to school oh love no love yes Mr President what are you doing about junkyards on highways what junkyards well I’m sending something over to your office right now you jump in your car and your jammies you might
Even Bait it yes I spoke with Honolulu they’re cabling now planes are back the primary was hit all the plan plan they all get back uh no sir I’m afraid we did lose one plane what about the pilot well he went down at Sea search and rescue is looking
For him now but I’m afraid it’s not looking very good I’m sorry sir all anything M good night Mr President yes Mr President I’m sorry put this on Moyer’s desk yes sir we lost a pilot sweet oh sweetheart oh I’m so sorry this isn’t about junkyards is it [ __ ] what time is
It I told Sandra I’d be home the one she didn’t call that’s not a good sign H why are you you coming or going he wants company we started bombing North Vietnam tonight Christ are they talking about combat troops no not yet no Christ I don’t know what to tell the
Press we are backing into a war here for Christ’s sake and it’s a war he campaigned against but now he talks like he’s putting a paddle to hoi men’s behind well Johnson’s a dealmaker he’s the best politician this country’s ever seen we find a way out of
This sure you’ll just get Old Uncle hoe down to the ranch serve him up some tasty barbecue and then offer him a dam or a federal judg ship hello Mr President good evening Mr President congratulations on getting that education bill out of committee you it hasn’t passed yet is it when all of
You up there on the hill day and night get me those Y what is this tapioca pudding yes sir did you like it now Boon rights that’s the meat in the Coconut Where Do We Stand um at last Hy we are short 50 congressmen but the Senate stop what I
Ask give me the names you want me to read the role Mr President all 435 from Abit Virginia just a block at Wisconsin go um Abbott Virginia nay abery Mississippi nay where do you think you’re going home the hell y you’re going to relieve him when he gives
Out Adair Indiana nay Adams Washington yay adabo New York yay Albert Oklahoma yay boys it doesn’t look like we were going to be able to get voting rights through not this is well I must say I don’t understand Mr President only a month ago in your state
Of the union message you made it perfect Reverend King I have been to the whale and the whale has provided I got the votes of Medicare a education all these benefit the poor and disenfranchised and you know who that is please don’t misunderstand we are very grateful Mr President attorney general
Katson back here has written a beautiful piece of legislation you think I want to carry that around my ass pocket you see it’s this this problem I got in Southeast Asia the Vietnamese to them Southerners up on the hill what are they with another bunch of colored people and I go
Up there crawling for more a a must for Vietnam Mr President old Wilber Mills will say you’re going to have to raise taxes declare war call up the reserves and by the way that’s going to cost you you’re Waring poverty you’re voting rights for [ __ ] just like World War II killed
The New Deal where there ain’t going to be World War III I promise you I’m going to nip this in the butt I am and as soon as I do I’ll send that bill up and more I promise you there will be no delay well Mr President we’re going to
Be down in Selma Marching for the vote and we expect you’ll take notice to what we do down there during preparations for Martin Luther King’s second attempt to march to Montgomery four white men Beat to Death the Boston clergyman one of the 1500 Marchers the slain Reverend James ree
Had come to Selma in solidarity with Negroes attempting to register to vote amid growing concern about increasing racial violence in Alabama Governor George Wallace is reportedly preparing a trip to Washington DC to see the president meanwhile demonstrations continue in front of the White House off well we didn’t organize it Mr
President call him off get out there both of you call him off daddy why you up those goddamn agitators wake you I heard you yelling oh sorry it be done it’s still strange to us though how millions of dollars can be is spent every day to hold troops in South
Vietnam and our country cannot protect the rights of negroes in Selma and Maran Alabama it’s outrageous now now now everything’s got to be now well they wanton the whole goddamn world with a fence around it I just gave standby authorization to federalize the Alabama guard we just
Need your order we have to do it Mr President Wallace won’t protect those Marchers you want me to send troops into Alabama lus d Russell every conservative vote I got hanging on a threat of sple the Reconstruction all over again your friend Bobby Kennedy could have give me that
Advice Martin Luther King and his group of pro Communists have instigated these demonstrations by Lawless negro mobs in Birmingham but the law Bing citizens of both races there fed up with this writing and disruption led by so-called clergy men and their communist inspired followers I am therefore sending 250
State troopers into that City supported by 500 other Law Officers of this state I will meet our enemies face to face I will not surrender Mr President Wallace is only coming up here in order to Plate you he wants things to get so bad down there
That you have to put the troops in then he’ll lambast you for invading his sovereign state and that’s how he’ll sa himself godamn runy little bastard I want his pecker in my pocket the thing we have to do we have to get him to ask for the troops to say he
Wants rights he wants peace but he just can’t control his own people make it his failure that’s what we have to do in an interview today Governor Wallace denied that Alabama state troopers and sheriff’s deputies used unnecessary force in routing negro Marchers in Selma call the speaker tell him I want to address
Congress on that godamn Bill’s going up now from angry one more Governor Wallace A Little Closer thank you all right thank you set down Governor over here that’s it over there oh right in the corner corner Governor that’s it hey Governor you wanted to see me uh
Yes uh Mr President I want to thank you for agreeing to see me God damn demonstrators keeping ladybird up to stirb my daughter’s wrist turn that thing off subversives most of them communist part is behind the whole thing you know what I do I send some of them Secret Service
Boys out there with itching powder sprinkling on the back of someone their necks they drop them signs there caring scratch themselves raw that’s a great idea I’m going to give my people on that better than that govern now we ought to go out there we got all those television cameras you see
This television cameras I got out there yes sir why don’t we go out there and we’ll turn them cameras around and we’ll announce that you decided to register every Negra in Alabama Mr President as much as I ni give me one constitutions yes Sir Nick’s got the Constitutions hey thank you
Nick now Governor I’m sure there somewhere in here it says that negras have the right to vote Yes Mr President and uh they have the right to vote in Alabama but uh it’s the county registr they uh they uh under Alabama Law they independent and I don’t have the power
George now don’t you [ __ ] me about who’s caught the power in Alabama Mr President come on Governor you’re a persuasive man hell I was watching this morning all three networks you were attacking me I wouldn’t attacking you Mr President I was attacking the idea idea hell you were
Attacking me George and I tell you you’re so damn am persuasive I nearly changed my mind you have marvelous powers of persuasion don’t you Governor Governor Wallace you and I shouldn’t be sitting there thinking about 1965 we ought to be thinking about 1995 when you and I Bel long in our
Graves now you got a lot of poor people down there in Alabama a lot of ignorant people people need jobs people need the future you can do a lot for him in 1995 Governor what do you want left behind you want a great big marble monment saying George Wallace he built he
Protected the weak the poor the impoverished people of his great state or do you want a little piece of scrawny Pine laying there in a harsh coli soil saying George Wallace he hated I’m sorry Governor I interrupted you now you wanted to tell me something Mr President I
Uh I’ve had the opportunity to uh re-evaluate and uh I think think that uh I just may not be able to get things under control without some uh assistance Governor I’ll give you any assistance that’s mine to provide now what specific measures would you suggest the president and I have spoken
And uh I have assured him that I abore brutality and in my eternal commitment to Law and Order I will do whatever it takes to uh maintain the peace Mr Speaker the president of the United States [Applause] I speak tonight for the Dignity of man and the destiny of democracy there is no negro problem there is no Southern problem there is no Northern problem there is only an American problem there is no cause for pride and what has happened in Selma the cries of pain and the hymns
And protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the Majesty of this great government our mission is at once the oldest and most basic of this country to right wrong to do justice to serve men this Wednesday I will send to you a law which will eliminate illegal barriers to the
Most basic American right the right to vote many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult about this there can and should be no argument for outside this chamber is the outraged conscience of a nation and the harsh Judgment of History the cause of the American Negro
To secure himself the full blessings of American Life must be our [Applause] cause because really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling Legacy of bigotry and Injustice and we shall [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Overcome Yes 93 million on TV it’s a record congratulations thanks hey dick dick dick switch board is jammed having had this many calls the Cuban Missile Crisis good to know they don’t only call the complain hey dick sit down sit down that was old dick Russell says I’m a low down
Cur and a turnco but he wants me to know that the best speech he ever saw any president give and that goes back to Lincoln Mr President Dr King oh oh Reverend king that’s kind of you to call did you know I was on TV tonight oh oh oh we saw it
Yeah all right all right bye got Arthur crimal no no I can’t no no you know boys I’m reminded tonight of Texas Hill Country and spring oh lenon your guests are far too we I appreciate your poetry now let me tell you boys about the Hill Country in Sp good
Night good night all good night Mr good night now Lucy in Spring Lucy come with me good night good night good night good night Mr good night good night you in spring in the H country the Sun is up earlier and the ground gets warmer and you can see the steam
Rising the sap ribbon and in his pen there’s my prize bow now he is the biggest best hung B well in the spring that Bo gets a hand for them Cals and he starts ping the ground and getting whistles so I open up the pen and he goes down the hill with
His pecker hanging hard and swing well those cars get so God damn excited they get more and more moist to receive and their asses just start they start quivering over every one of them is CR and as that bull struts into their pasture oh boys we had him quivering theight Arriving in Naval transports United States Marines stormed the beach at dang Vietnam in full battle gear these are the first US ground troops to step foot on Asian soil since the Korean War they were greeted by some lovely local ladies the Pentagon says their mission is a
Defensive one to protect the US Air Base from enemy attack so Operation Rolling Thunder can roll on speaking with reporters President Johnson emphasized that these 3500 Marines will free up the South Vietnamese troops now guarding the base to go out and fight vietcom reports from the field however
Indicate that Saigon’s forces may be no match for full Viet Kong regiments recently in one of the heaviest attacks of the war so far the Viet Kong inflicted major casualties in kangai Province on official sources say that many South Vietnamese Army units are near collapse oh my oh my
Mr President Mr President no no sit down sit down boy I heard you fellas were talking over dinner can I get you a PL of food Mr presid nothing drink no why why do they want war with us to hoi men and North Vietnamese this is
Just a continuation of the war with the French and the Japanese and the Chinese thousand years before that we never should have allowed the French to reclaim their colonies in 45 but we needed them alied with us against the Soviets and that was their price we end
Up like the French great par cutting and running from a bunch of little men and black pajamas talking our tail in De feet France didn’t have the Firepower we have but the bomb seems to have no effect well it appears now that it won’t stop them but it has slowed down their
Resupply Hanah is starting to send down large units and the more of their men we can tie up with repairing roads and bridges the fewer they can spare to fight in the South what do we have there now well we’ve got the third Marines at Danang fbai Chula the 173rd Airborne at
Vongtau for base defense and support of the South Vietnamese units 13 Battalion and all no my battalions how many boyss 51,000 troops Mr President and West M wants how many 184,000 and the authority to launch offensive operations under his own command the South Vietnamese are useless Mr President they’ve lost four
Battalions in the last month desertions are at record levels they’re losing and they’re losing fast I know they’re losing that I don’t need a f bit a kaaki to know they’re losing anyone smart enough to pour piss out of a boot knows they’re losing how many casualties you think we’ll
Take we could reach 500 a month by the end of the year if Hanoi hasn’t quit by then 500 a month you tell West Mand he’s got the authority tell him to get out there and kill Viet Kong do whatever he has to do to hold him off then you and will are
Going see him and nail him down on what he needs to get this thing over with then damn it let’s get it over with kid was setting fuses on the goddamn Bridge D leer that was 5 minutes away in that pot shop last time I was
Here he missed me by a mile Jesus you think they put with their best sniper on the job I wish I could tell you they were representative of the enemy Mr secretary my strategy for the war is divided into three phases in Phase One employing the 18 184,000 Man level now
Being considered we would halt the losing Trend by the end of 1965 in phase two for which an additional 100,000 troops would be needed Allied Forces would gain the initiative by June 30 1966 pacification activities would be expanded aimed at winning the hearts and minds of South Vietnamese
Peasantry if the Communists do not then give up phase three of our strategy would kick in the win phase which would begin on July 1st 1966 and conclude by December 31st 1967 the defeat of remaining enemy forces and base areas additional reinforcements will be needed for this phase following which Allied
Forces will begin to be withdrawn General that’s a marvelous plan but uh excessively abstract I want to see your numbers I want to see the percentage of the country you now control and the percentage you intend to control with these 200,000 additional men I want to see rates of infiltration and
Interdiction Force ratios in each of the Tactical core zones and enemy C casualties in battles fought and in projected battles against these added Forces Mr Clifford the president on line one oh friend I need here whatever resources are lost through bombing or capture China and Russia will make up with resupply encouraging a friendly game of I’m more revolutionary than thou our intervention will give them a cause over which to unite when it
Is in our interest to deepen the breach between them but wouldn’t we lose credibility throughout the world if we give up as you propose wouldn’t this be an IR rapable blow George a worse blow Mr Mr President would be that the mightiest power in the world is unable
To defeat one of the most backward with the 71 battalions with Westy’s plan this war is winnable I say we go in and we get the job done but can we get the job done what if they put their stack in what makes you think if we put in the
Numbers your suggestion that hoochi men won’t match us man for man this means greater bodies of men Mr President which will allow us to cream them they’re fire power against ours why does anyone think that they will accommodate us by fighting our kind of War their tactics
Are Terror and sniping they have better access to intelligence why is this it’s because the South Vietnamese government is heavily infiltrated with Viet Kong agents Mr President what other Road can we go negotiations stoping the bombing these Mak us look weak with Cup in hand better to lose now than after committing
200,000 men I disagree we have to make a stand here and if we fail it could be chalked up to any number of things corre coruption among Saigon’s leaders for instance then we can get out but this government will have stood up to the Communists but we won’t get out Bob we
Will double our bets and get massacred in the rice patties so so so what’s your advice George Cut and Run Mr President no Great Captain in history ever hesitated to make a tactical withdrawal when conditions were unfavorable to him does anyone else here agree with what George is
Saying I’ve asked clar cord to join us so do you have any comments at this time I I have a question for General wheeler yes sir good morning General good morning if the president proceeds with his plan what in your view would constitute a victory what is the definition of victory in
This contest yes a military victory in the traditional sense is not what we are seeking to eliminate every last viic con gorilla could require as many as half a million men in five years no no no no one’s considering those kind of numbers no one our objective is to reach a
Stalemate whereby we are tring the enemy faster than he can replace his losses this is the socalled crossover point and how many men will this require a substantially smaller number depending on how the North Vietnamese respond well might they respond by sending in say 100,000 troops we regard this as
Unlikely this is less than half the men they have under arms well it’s certainly possible they already have 50,000 men down there and to achieve the 10 to1 superiority which I understand is barely adequate for conventional forces in a Guerilla situation how many troops would be required to meet this possible
Threat as I said this would be unlikely 1 million troops is that not correct General you see we would need 1 million men in Vietnam Excuse me Clark I can’t tell you how Greatful I am to finally have an ally at the barricades well it’s just what makes sense George not to Bob mcnamer but to me a million men was strayed out of your memo of October last year an impressively persuasive document in my
Opinion all 67 pages of it I haven’t shown much restraint on the subject it’s true if he brought you in it must because I’m like an old broken record now well then there’ll be two of us scratchy and irritating as hell good there George yeah the list of volunteers are
Here for the pictures Mr President tell them I’ll be out in a minute and tell Valen I want to see him right after I called Mar since I heard you safe cowards I really appreciated that she was pretty shaken up she hates when I go over there well I hate send you all
Thanks stinks hi him what do you want to tell me in private I’ve managed to keep these Vietnam expenditures Under Wraps as you requested but if you decide to move forward with this it’s going to be impossible to keep up the guys indefinitely and I strongly believe you
Should present this bill to the American people no absolutely not Mr President I can’t continue to hide these kinds of figures phase one of West morland’s program alone is going to run us 12 billion 12 billion I can’t ask Congress for 12 billion Mr President Bobby will be
Unired hell if I go to the hill asking for that kind of money I never get another thing out of him again now how much can you trim off that I got my o in a ditch here now what can you do for me if we continue to use the maximum
Transfer Authority from other areas I could probably cut these figures in half but we’ll still need a big big appropriation to carry us through this year but West M says if we put the Manny in there’s a chance they’ll quit by Year’s End right well that’s certainly
What we all hope but we can’t count on just do the number count when you B yeah get as low as you can one More all right all right thank you thank You Jack I need a statement for next week I’m not sure yet if I’m going to use it but I need it ready all right Mr President You Know Jack I want war like I want polio the shooting the bombing goes against every bone in my body you
Know that better than almost anyone these young people here that’s what I’m all about that was me in catula teaching Mexican kids living in h treated worse than you treat a dog but here I start a billion dollar Bank from Southeast Asia free money and oi M must no part of it I
Could have turned turn that place into the Tennessee Valley I already said he’s willing to fight for 20 years I know what he says I know what I say and I know what I must do despite what I say damn it I want to leave the footprint of America in Vietnam schools dams
Hospitals bomb craters that’ll be all footprint that’s what I remember me for not for health care or civil rights or education no sir it be Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam 20 bills I’m trying to get out of kittee and 12 out of 18 working hours every day my head stuck up that raggedy
Ass little fourth weight country don’t even have the F to save itself you get with magero you know what it’s got to say and tell Busby or good we to put the music to a jack way up you didn’t ask me that each time turn out awake here got to ring up
So L can’t hear it got the flashlight maybe you ought to sleep in that other room you set up what happened to that Prime rip from the Medicare meeting is that what you want there’s some nice chicken left over from education lunch I saw him put it
Away oh darling you’ve been so good about your diet that I don’t see any point in the middle I don’t care about that now I little hard to take my with the answer to my problems all right you stop that kind of talk please I worry enough about your health I’ll fix
Something for you if you sit down all right come on all right I’m sorry Lucy met a boy when she went on that Chicago trip with you last week what do you mean she met a boy why didn’t I know about this that day she went to Milwaukee and visited the William
Feldstein mhm she visited Beth Jenkins Marette and Beth had some friends over all the students there and among them was this boy Patrick nent is his name he’s Catholic Lucy will only date boys who are Catholic now and she calls him Patty so I am paying attention he’s just tons mother she said
To me that’s the new expression tons move your elbow thank now you like the chicken you remarked on it I didn’t know of it you might have shown it to me this morning I’m woking you again oh like a jackass in a hail storm I guess I’ll just have to hun her
Up and take it I feel like I’m going down the plane I can crash with it and burn up or jump and die where we were when I came in I I’d trade back to that I trade back to the damn vice presidency get out of this Mess Clark the president would like you and your wife to join him at Camp David this weekend oh thank you Bill thank the president we’d love to but but we have a prior engagement Clark is there any way you can make it he’s working on an escalation speech has he made up his
Mind I’d say he has but he’s asking for you and who else will be there Bob [Applause] mamir smmer I’d like you to meet my friend Pat n it’s honor to meet you sir pleasure my wife Mar afternoon’ meet you they National Guard where you stationed I’ll be at Andrews with the 113th sir but down to San Antonio first for basic Blackland Air Force space sure used to
Call it Kelly back in 42 when I was going around helping to build an Air Force in this country you know we only had a handful of planes with the Japanese attacked us spread all over the country is that right and half Arnold do
The name of every one of them I got some half Arnold stories for you hey s we’ll leave everything tomorrow we’re talk in the morning I look forward to it come on in hey that’s the best minds of our Administration start looking for a way
Out and stop looking for a way to win this unwinable war because it is my considered opinion that continuing on that path will lead us to catastrophe any unbiased jury would give you your verdict Clark no question but but if it’s true what Moya says that lyndon’s in magn ‘s
Pocket mam has such sway in there Truman took your advice over George Marshall’s for heaven’s sakes Kennedy too but lynon is another kettle of fish give him a new vision Clark he’ll hear you for now though leave it there so these are the numbers now you will not be held accountable for anything
That has happened up to this point in fact you will be admired for the noble attempt you have made to honor your predecessor’s commitment a commitment that has been exploited by that corrupt and self-destructive regime in South Vietnam the bombing might have worked but it hasn’t and to make it work you
Would would have to resort to unconscionable measures that would make you a hero to those in this country you disdain and a criminal to those you have sought all your life to assist The Young and the poor who are the ones who will have to fight this war this this is not
The last inning in the struggle against communism we must pick those spots where the stakes are highest for us and where we hold the cards it’ll give us the greatest opportunity to Prevail hoi men told the French he said you will kill 10 of my men and I will kill only one of
Yours but in the end it is you who will tire and they did and 11 years ago at Damm Fu they just couldn’t do it anymore the North Vietnamese lost 500,000 in their war against the French and they did not tire and they will not Tire now
Not after you commit 100,000 not after you commit 500,000 and if you do not win decisively after a big buildup it will be a huge catastrophe it will destroy the American people’s faith in you and the Democratic party in their government for years to come now you have always stressed the
Economic and social dimensions of world problems and in this you are unrivaled you have a unique opportunity here to address this problem economically and socially not by War not by killing people but by helping them here and there this is a year of minimum political risk for you Mr President you
Were elected by the largest landslide in our history the reactionary elements of this Society will not soon recover I foresee little erosion of your prestige and power if we cut our losses and get out of Vietnam but I foresee nothing but disaster for you and this country if we
Don’t if we escalate this War I believe it will ruin us and I believe it will ruin you and all the great good you have sought to do [ __ ] it’s a hot one already you wish you were back in Texas Mr President fellas right now I’d rather be on the moon okay
Bob Mr President Clark has suggested that the stakes aren’t there in Vietnam this is damn shocking here are the stakes number one National Security if we back down in Vietnam Nam it will only be a matter of time before we have to go in someplace else two the commitments
We’ve made and the price of breaking them and three our Prestige before the world could the stakes be any higher to elaborate on point one if we withdraw La Cambodia Thailand Burma will fall but the ripple effect will be far greater with communist agitation increasing in
Africa India even Japan we will have to give up some basis Pakistan and will move closer to China point two our pledge is a pillar of Peace in the world and if we break it our allies will lose faith in us and three because we have so persistently and publicly committed
Ourselves to preventing a communist Takeover in South Vietnam our failure to see that commitment through will be profoundly devastating to our Prestige this is why I recommend the following one put the men in and West morland’s plan is sound every quantitative measurement shows we can win to call up
The reserves and extend tours of Duty and three expand the bombing in the north remove restrictions on bridge and Rail lines mine the harbors expand Rolling Thunder from 2500 to 4,000 sores a month in the South Tactical air strikes must be supplemented by increased B-52 bombing of VC base areas now to elaborate
Clark Clark I think you scored some terrific points in there I’m so glad you were arguing the other side B you believed what you said to the president you’re certain we can win I sure hope there’s no mistaking my confidence on the president’s part well that’s not what I’m asking Clark I’ve
Seen the charts I’ve run the numbers everything else is soft speculation I had dinner with President Kennedy just after the Missile Crisis and he told me that if it had not been for you keeping your head facing down the Chiefs thinking clearly we might not be alive
Today now there were no charts or numbers then just judgment you’re telling me that it is your judgment that this is the best course of action for this country for this president I can only give my best advice that’s what I did for Jack Kennedy it’s what I’m doing
Now I’ll see you dinner Clark you want to stop somewh and talk about it I’m all talked out honey nothing but talk some point the talking’s got to end God happens when the talking ends [Applause] Lon 100 phds among them 10,000 IQ points and I can’t get an answer I can sit with and if uh if it turns bad they’ll say this wouldn’t happen under Jack keny no sir CU you could do no wrong he leaves a thousand on the beach in Cuba and his numbers go up
Lyen now L now come on honey what do you think of crashing through that damn gate and driveing back to Texas now you know You’ get no argument from me you hate it that much have you ever considered the shoes I’ve had to fill she didn’t die with them oh he
Didn’t die he’s more alive neighb cuz his half-sized brother with one half his brains in the T his Scruples ate his heart out and took in his Spirit sure as he was out of some engine story and me I be president what’s his name who came between the two the president who lost
America its first war why must Young Americans born into a land exalting with hope and with golden promises toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place as Vietnam it is because in the fight for Freedom the American people have learned that Retreat does not bring
Safety and weakness does not bring peace if we are driven from the field in Vietnam then no Nation can ever again have the same confidence in American promises or in American protection we did not choose to be the Guardians at the gate but there is no one
Else no what surrender in Vietnam bring peace because we learned from Hitler at Munich the success only feeds the appetite of aggression I have asked the Commanding General General West morand what more he needs to meet this mounting aggression he has told me and we will meet his
Needs I have today ordered to Vietnam the air mobile Division and certain other forces which will raise our fighting strength from 75,000 to 125,000 men almost immediately additional forces will be needed later and they will be sent as request yeah but how many now I did not find it easy to send
The flow of our youth our finest young men into battle I think I know how their mother’s weak and their fam is sorrow Mr secretary Senator Morris has been calling Vietnam mn’s War what is your reaction this is a war of the United States government I’m following the president’s policy and
Working in close cooperation with the secretary of state now I must say I don’t object to it being called mcamera War I think it’s a very important War one that I’m pleased to be identified with and to do what I can to Win It appearing on Meet the Press yesterday
Mamero was asked to comment on hanoi’s claim that some 10,000 civilians have been killed in the bombing including thousands of women and children some loss of innocent life is unavoidable in an operation such as this I can tell you that we are taking every possible precaution in choosing targets the risk
Of Civilian casualties is most assuredly one of several factors consider so what Target are you recommending it’s a cement factory along a major rail line General wheeler feels military value is marginal but the monsoon has socked in more valuable targets what’s the output of the facility it appears to be small sir even
By their standards it couldn’t produce enough for them to rely heavily on the output let’s give it a c for military value what’s your risk analysis risk to Pilots is close to zero there might be some small arms fire but Recon shows no anti-aircraft in placements no migs in the area they’ll
Be protecting more valuable targets and probably won’t risk losing them defending this one depending on cloud cover we may have to come in low enough to be in range of small arms but this is a small risk given an a if risk to Pilots an aircraft what’s your flasho
Analysis the target is more than 20 mi outside Hanoi so there’s little risk of provoking China or Russia kosan or Mau won’t be down there touring the factory that day will they this isn’t one of Russia or China’s friendship projects a gift from the motherland well if I were hoi men I
Would have returned this gift of course catching one of them there might have been a nice bonus for us thanks but I’ve already been to the brink of nuclear Annihilation and I’m not eager to go back give it an a for flasho risk next what about civilians we’re clear
Residential except for one row of hooches behind the facility so what are these houses or storage Shacks or what well we can’t be sure uh most likely the factory managers and their families live there I’m not too familiar with Southeast Asian home construction sir we could certainly use someone who
Know something about Vietnamese culture around Here so what’s the outside number of civilians well four hooches this size we use six per so 24 24 for a Target this size that seems high that’s how we figure it sir I mean that that seems a high number to lose for a Target like this give it a d for
Civilian casualties let’s see what we’ve got c a a d let’s give it a solid C+ and put it before the president all right what’s next Jesus there’s a guy on the wall at the River entrance look at that guy hey wait a minute Stop don’t get down from there get up please pleas the Baby Yes Mr President you wanted to see me yes sir you can come down now Yeah Mr President as uh Bill Moes told you I’ve been offered of fellowship at Wan University in Connecticut well good for you that ain’t easy to get no I’m very fortunate well don’t wait too long to turn him down so they can call the next guy on the
List Mr President I have already accepted no problem you didn’t know you weren’t free to go call him up put me on give you any trouble what do you mean I’m not free to go I mean you can’t go I can’t get along without you that makes
You a pretty big fell how big a fell you going to be with some fellowship well you got along without me before I came you want more money I got plenty of money I’ll arrange a payment from the Johnson Foundation money isn’t the issue Mr President this
Is something that I want to do what ain’t it going to be so make a call Mr President I uh I’m very sorry now dick you have to stay here with me or you go over to the Pentagon and get yourself a pair of shiny black boots
There’s a statute I ask mcnare says we can draft specialist vitals of the national interest and that’s what I’ll do if you won’t serve here here you know where I can send you you made me a general oh you won’t want to be a general you want to be a private
Marine infantry that’s where the action is I know you like to be around the action that’s why you stayed here so long you listen to me dad you go ahead and take your fellowship but your hands are all over this you and Moyers and Bundy and everybody else talking about jumping
Ship the most of all you you put your name all over the Great Society but you put the tune to those words of War too and hiding out on some college campus or anything else you ever do is never going to change that Dismissed an entire generation of North Vietnamese have been born and lived and died in the pursuit of one thing a United Vietnam under communist rule the North Vietnamese have never known anything but War at CIA we’ve just completed a study of their staggering recuperative abilities Bridges this one was knocked out in a
Morning raid two hours later some bamboo planks across a bunch of wooden Canal boats and there’s foot traffic again by 300 p.m. it’s a pontoon Bridge strong enough for a fully loaded truck a bomb knocks out a rail line they call up the bicycle brigades 500 men and women some as old
As 70 or 75 put the cargo on their bikes each one balances up to a 600 lb load across the frame they wheel it across a Jerry rigged bridge to another train waiting to move it on South filling a bomb crater to make a road passable again that’s his routine
To a school kid there is getting a malt down at the corner shop here it’s a first date they have a brand of cigarettes Mr President called D NBN Fu that’s their York town there waterl where they defeated the French in 54 reminders of War are in the most
Casual moments of daily life in a smoke Mr President their Heroes the kid who was put to death for trying to assassinate secretary mcnamer last year in Saigon there’s a song about him it’s a top 10 hit and Norman Morrison Norman Morrison was the Quaker who burned himself to death in front of
The Pentagon last month a Great Hero Hanoi just issued a postage stamp thank you John thank you Scott a Great Hero he almost took his one-year-old daughter with him a baby Miracles she was unharmed man was Disturbed three young children of fatherless hero so what do we do
Mr President the most strategic Targets in North Vietnam remain intact because Hanoi and Hong continue to be off limits we’re not hitting their oil supply major power plants rail links to China we’re not mining the ports hitting the dkes CIA says hitting the diyes will flood the whole damn country kill the ROP
Storing the death isn’t that right yes sir and I have one more problem for your big computer ask how long it’ll take 500 100,000 angry Americans to climb that white house wall and Lynch their president if he does something like that this is why the Chiefs and I have been urging for months
That we take the next logical step and destroy their oil reserves nothing stopped them yet why should that stop them that oil goes in trucks Mr President trucks to carry troops and guns and bullets across the border to kill our men they don’t need damn trucks
Why you watching they got 100y old women hauling crap what do you want me to do kill everybody’s grandmother in that place Mr President Ambassador do brinan says that Moscow would try to bring Hanoi to the table if we stopped the bombing for three or four weeks this
Would be a grave mistake Mr President they’ll send down everything they can Westy’s against it Admiral sharp Bob I know opposes it and every one of the Chiefs look the North Vietnamese have nine regiments down there we thought they had three the DC has more than doubled
Theirs from 5 to 12 which is twice our buildup and I just feel that we need to do something before we send another 200,000 men over there yes Bob we can try bombing them where it hurts the enemy lost over a thousand in recent fighting didn’t they they lost
1,200 in the air drying Valley and we lost 300 it’s clear that they’re willing to take those kinds of casualties which is something that we were not counting on some were’re not counting on but are you now saying that no matter what we do militarily there’s no sure
Victory I believe we may have been overly optimistic about an early end China Russia although they do not want a general War have stepped up their aid just a moment gentlemen the president undertook this program because General West Morland was confident we could win why are we considering another
200,000 if you now believe Victory to be unlikely that’s my question I still believe we can win but if there is the slightest chance of obtaining a settlement without sending over hundreds of thousands more men and hitting their cities I think we should do it right now we are incurring
Significant casualties if the build continues we may be facing a thousand per month and if Hano won’t talk we’ll only make our position with the American people stronger and they’ll be more likely to accept these kinds of losses we could have a thousand casualties a month if we
Do this Mr President it’s my job to protect our troops every truck every sand pan that gets through means more dead Americans they’ll send out missiles anti-aircraft guns it’ll set us back a year wait a minute it seems to me that if we’re this pessimistic winning battles yet predicting St mate just 5
Months after going in we should pause the bombing and see what results I’m sorry George but I must disagree if we pause the bombing and it fails the president will be under irresistible pressure from the right-wing Hawks in Congress to bomb Hano the bomb the Red River dkes that’ll
Flood the country and create a civilian disaster of such magnitude I do not believe that North Vietnam will talk until they come to the realization that this will be a stamate that they cannot win and they’re not there their unrelenting buildup in the South clearly indicates that they
Believe they can win are you now saying we have no choice but to continue to match him man for man well you made that decision Mr President we are there you have convinced the American people that we should be there I see no alternative but for you
To make your best effort to win I couldn’t believe my ears Clifford about faing Ma am going Sol they’re all changing their tun now I know George MC Bundy up with the Soviet Ambassador got a little voder in him and those Harvard types will believe anything out of a
Diplomat I don’t believe for a minute that Moscow wants peace you don’t have to take his advice if you believe it will fail don’t you know anything don’t you know if I don’t call a bomb and pause the kennedies Will shout from the mountain tops that the Russians off a
Big fat Olive BRS and I snapped it in two and now I’ve missed my chance for peace so how’s academic life not nearly is challenging I have to say I’ve been getting a lot more sleep well someone has to deal with these things you certainly have the fla
Space that I do that I do you know the guy in that portrait James farestone that’s right Truman’s Secretary of Defense guy went absolutely nuts when Truman finally got rid of him he pinned him with the service medal he just stood there mute his throat clamped God knows what demons going through his
Mind couple days later he jumped out of the 16th floor of Bethesda NAA sometimes you can wrestle too much Bob we both came in with Jack Kennedy we were around when this started Vietnam started with Eisenhower neither of us were here I know and it was Kennedy you
Put in all those so-called advises but I can’t believe that had he Liv we’d be in this ditch you sound like you’ve been talking to Bobby is your friend what’s he telling you if you told the president to stop the bombing he’d stop it we have stopped the bombing under my recommendation you’ve
Paused it Hano knows that you’re going to start up again if they don’t agree to talk and they have said a hundred times they won’t knuckle under to that now if you told the president that you no longer believe the bombing can work I never said I believe that Bobby says you told
Him it’s not worth a damn well that’s between Bobby and me and as far as my influence with the president is concerned I think you overestimate my pole I don’t see how that’s possible peace talks that’s the only way out of this thing now we’ve stopped the bombing for 30
Days the brass is ready to hang me and God I sure hope Hanoi wants to take the bait because got don’t think we’re going to be able to beat these people so are you going public with your views I’m thinking about it well you are free to do that now aren’t you Is that where in happened yep incredible absolutely incredible for 20 days now we and our South Vietnamese allies have dropped no bombs on North Vietnam we seek neither territory no basis economic domination or military Alliance in Vietnam we fight for the principle of self-determination that the people of
South Vietnam should be able to choose their own course choose it in free elections without violence without Terror and without fear we have said all this and we have asked and hoped and we have waited for a response none has come I believe that we can continue the Great
Society while we fight in Vietnam yet there are those who cry out we must sacrifice well let us rather ask them who will they sacrifice are they going to sacrifice the children who seek the learning or the sick who need medical care or the families who dwell in
Squalor now brightened by the hope of home will they sacrifice opportunity for the disgraced the beauty of our land and the hope of our poor Vietnam has been fighting for its independence for 4,000 years we have defeated the Mongols three times and despite all of his Bluster and all of
His bombs Emperor Johnson is not nearly as terrifying as gask Khan hoian statement over Hanway radio this morning 37 days 37 days now not one bomb has fallen this is our answer this is our answer what now Bob Hanoi and Hong Harbor as you can see they’re in very
Concentrated areas the tanks and refineries are within a short distance of residential sections what about the Russian oil ships they off load with a 250t floating pipeline that’s why we’re targeting the distribution tanks some 1500 ft from the vessels but still quite close to the residential areas that’s
Correct and I understand that they purposely situate strategic targets close to neighborhoods what about those ships can they shoot back no sir they’re unarmed but the tanks are protected by surface to air missiles the Russians sent them down during the bombing pause how many planes will we
Lose 20 to 25 how many casualties 50 50 to 300 is my estimate and if the bombs miss it could go as high as 12,000 with 50% of these civilians and 50% of those killed of course we don’t plan these strikes to miss our targets but you do Miss
Sometimes this time you can hit a Russian ship and Obama pilot it’ll be a kid from Johnson City Texas and that’ll be the kid that starts World War I thank you very much all right so what great things will result from this plan with no oil their entire
Infiltration effort will grind to a halt from manufacturing to Transportation their War making capability will be destroyed and they will have to negotiate Dane the Chinese and the Soviets will step up Aid we could lose a support of Canada Japan and the Chinese representation issue at the UN if a Russian ship is
Sunk we just don’t know the Chinese may send in troops but as bus said this could end it what if it doesn’t what if by God’s grace we don’t have a million Chinese nuclear war they still won’t quit will he be ask me to hit next strategic targets closer to the center of
Hanoi the Paul deir Bridge four major Rail lines cross it the power plant industry all within 5 miles of downtown but you for this it might work so you’re for it um Mr President wellc since taking over from M Bundy I’ve had a chance to evaluate our bombing policy and uh well
I believe that our continued delay in attacking Hanoi is causing Russia and China to underestimate our resolve and and that that may actually encourage World War II L as always I support any measure that has a chance of ending this anyone else George nothing ahe this will not affect North
Vietnamese Manpower which has proved to be limited L it will be hard for the Russians and the Chinese to take I’m concerned as always about the escalating level of violence but maybe this will finally satisfy the Hawks in Congress if we have to do it let’s do it
Now you know George you remind me of a country school teacher ask if he believes the World is Flat around he says I can teach it either way how soon do we go it’s the same as mine you know I just as soon forget about those 13 days he
Had the ma at Tiffany’s didn’t he he gave one to Jackie too she joked it’s the only thing he ever gave her from there it wasn’t ordered straight out of their catalog a trying time you speak as if it’s in the past what the trying time Time Johnson was a very good for play but he loved the political conversations can a whiskey convert a man Clark look at him you know what they remind me of flock of buzzards sitting on a fence discussing the price of carrying buzzards George you could have had
Bundy’s job what was it Clark haven’t socked away enough dough yet oh no that’s Unbecoming of you George the basement office what you know I lose my freedom to advise him on his presidency if I took a cabinet post George the president wants to get out of Vietnam
Just as much as you do in principal principal there’s a word that’s been tossed about more than a dollar [ __ ] in a port of call how’s this for principal 150 more killed last week what a waste you know who said that no mcnamer to me for all the principal around here we’re
In one hell of a mess don’t you think look at him his wife’s got an ulcer his kids got an ulcer everybody’s got Bob mn’s ulcer but Bob mcnamer sometimes I think think it’s all just a goddamn academic exercise to him George you mustn’t give up on this George oh Christ Clark rnie
George good evening Mr and Mrs Clifford how are you I’d like you to meet Charles Rob Clark Clifford anyone who still thinks we ought to be in Vietnam should take a detour from work and Drive by Arlington Cemetery every day for a week I don’t think I’d trust anyone in a
Policymaking position to do that you did what Bob to face the consequences of his Council who needed a reminder what war was all about a reminder of what our jobs at World War II in the rear I pushed paper just like you Walt we were all too damn smart I must have been
Sitting on my brains then up in that B25 two years in prison camps that’s right Nick’s the only one here who saw combat you were probably picking his targets Walt as I remember we won that war yeah well you can tell that to the 50,000 dead men women and children of Dresden
Dresden is anyone ready for dinner Dresden was bombed for the ra lines pron was bombed to terrorize the hell out of those people which is precisely what our B-52s are doing in Vietnam and if this keeps up in another year we’ll have dropped more there than on all of Europe
Isn’t that right Bob what’s going inside darling isn’t that what you told me the other day in private among some other things such as the fact that we’ve destroyed so much of that country they can’t even grow enough rice to feed themselves The Rice Bowl of the world
George we’ve created so many refugees that if we had the same proportion out of their homes in this country there’d be 30 million people on the streets isn’t that right Bob isn’t that what you said what was it tacius said about the Romans and Carthage you have made a desert and call it peace if you still can’t reach him then get who’s ever on call we need a doctor here Christ Lord I’ll be all right already was a liquor hello Mr secretary it’s major wolson of the command center we just got a call
From sink pack saying the weather around Hanoi is cleared and the fighter bombers are on their way B me Mr President the operations we discussed we’ll be going tonight they have perfect conditions b b these the these these Pilots you said to be the cream well
They’re the best the Navy and Air Force have Mr President and they know you’re counting on them all right Bob Tangy I’m going to the Pentagon now I’ll call as soon as I have word Mr President dang it forgive me for ventilating so freely I believe that you were only so
Worried because you feel foolish having waited so long to take this action if you did it a year ago instead of using kid gloves and giving them an extra month in which to resupply it would have followed quite naturally but now it seems to you like one step too
Many the problem is my good sir each step has been inches instead of yards we have been going to war by inches tiptoeing apologetically and we should be striding through with our heads held high like Americans why aren’t we hearing from them yeah Bob Mr President they had some weather
You said it was clear if I’ll call you the moment I know anything my life’s in your hands here yes sir For Our Father Our Father Our Father Who Art in Heaven who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name H be thy name well if you admit her you can run some test on her can’t you godamn it on you can see there that she’s in a hell of a lot of pain my
Kingdom come that kingdom come thy will be done I’m sorry I’m sorry on Earth I’m sorry on Earth on Earth as it is in heaven as it is in heaven give us this day give us this day our daily bread our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses forgive us our
Trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us as we forgive those who trespass against us lead us not into temptation lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from from evil but Deliver Us from Evil amen Amen Go ahead Mr President I just talked with Honolulu all the primaries were hit and no ships were struck now we did lose to aircraft to anti-air no Russian ships we didn’t hit any erosion ships no but as I say uh two pilots are down I won’t know about civilian casualties
Till we have the photos now if the weather holds we can send the RFS in to see just what collateral damage all right Bob thank you thank you pentagon ources tell CBS news that General West Morland has been granted even greater authority over the use of B-52s in Vietcong controlled areas of
The South with the recent escalation of bombing over North Vietnam aimed at destroying the heart of the enemy’s Urban industrial capacity the US clearly wants to force a change in hano’s will to continue the war last year the rate of Rolling Thunder missions flown reached 1,500 per week since then the
Rate of sorties has doubled Mr President it appears that the air strikes have had no effect on the enemy’s War making capability the attacks were not successful well while we did destroy nearly 100% of their oil storage capacity in our follow-up attacks throughout the summer a large portion of
Their stock was put into barrels and dispersed in anticipation of our strikes theyve retained enough to meet ongoing requirements their buildup is continuing and West Morland is requesting additional men how many the program three forces will bring us up to 431,000 by the middle of 67 what about the bombing we’re looking
At heavier B-52 strikes in the southern DMZ and in North Vietnam Targets in the restricted zones downtown H yes sir and Hong and in the buffer zone with China the good news Mr President is the naysayers are wrong ping and Moscow Stood Still and they will very likely
Stand still still even with intensified activity are you recommending some of these new targets for me today yes I am you have the evaluation sheets before you I have some photographs here number 72 the vanan truck Depot with the one with the school up the street as a matter of fact yes the
Polish friendship School across the highway half a mile up Mr President as you may recall in order to avoid a tax increase we did not budget for the war Beyond this fiscal year which has cost us 20 billion as opposed to the 12 billion projected we are over by 8 billion 8
Billion Mr President if you approve these new forces could constraints on domestic programs will no longer be avoidable it’s all in a memo I sent over to you today along with some recommendations Joe I want to start working on the State of the Union you sit down with Bob and wal and
Fer yes Mr President must be no mention of the Great Society what is it you’re looking for under Secretary of State I’ll change the title to the Holy Roman Emperor right know this is the best way I can serve your presidency and I think Dean Rusk would feel
Undercut if you were to fill George Ball’s job with a personal friend of yours I don’t give a rat’s ass what Russ feels I need you in that room Clark I need someone like George with the ability to reason and argue a devil’s advocate George ball was not Playing devil’s
Advocate he believed every word he said all right all right Moyers wants the job my press man thinks of about making number two it State all of a sudden give a [ __ ] what he thinks about Vietnam and magnam magnam sends me a paper says we should cap the troops
Level off the bombing you know what happens if I stop bombing hoi men run five more divisions up my ass that’s what happen happens was McNamara’s program the whole thing now he’s talking about a [ __ ] storm with Bobby well you don’t know that I know everything I know who’s
Saying what of those fancy Georgetown dinner parties I know cuz I had Hoover put a couple of boys there too I know what they say doesn’t matter you’re not helpless in this situation your approval ratings are down you need to go out there on the stump and sell the truth
West MO is now saying that a communist military Victory is impossible you’re finally winning in viam we’re winning but we’re losing we’re killing them and we’re losing we’re losing because this war goes on and on and on I passed twice the number of bills afterr got through in his first 100 days
200 in the last two years there’s never been an era in American history like this yet there’s so much left to do but but this war has got to end 5 years [ __ ] wouldn’t about in that miserable little country2 billion dollar a month could be feeding these people
Educating these people God damn it why won’t that son of a [ __ ] let me help him why I when he lay down his arms and sto killing off his sons in the flower of their youth do not understand I I just do not understand Mr President Mo get me
Moers and get me General West war on the other line can I help you Mr President get your bags packed call The Press together we’re going to Vietnam D are they ours I [ __ ] hope So Free and H [Applause] Order Where you from son Louisville Kentucky sir Kentucky yes sir have you reached majority age at Corporal I was 21 last month sir my mom and my girl sent me a big old chocolate cake and it came just in time sir Bill get a minut yes Mr
President well come on they giv me the honor c mcaffrey a pinion it with this purple heart here you’ll be home right soon and First Tuesday November you got a congressional election I want you to vote Yes sir yeah you you be able to get your Poland
Place I don’t know where it is but I’ll get a ride sir all right you sure you vote now yes sir we’re all behind you sir every one of us we won’t let you down all right son thank you and I won’t let you down you get everything you
Need I thank you I salute you may the good Lord look over you and keep you safe you you come home and nail that [ __ ] skin to the wall three cheers for the [Applause] [Applause] president Certainly the bombing of the north makes the war more costly and more difficult and more painful for North Vietnam it is a harsh punishment indeed but we are not in Vietnam to play the part of an avenging angel pouring death and destruction we are there to assure selfdetermination of South Vietnam
Haven’t done a thing for this country War effectively not a [ __ ] thing as many lives as and look at all I’ve done it should be clear by now that the bombing of the north cannot bring an end to the war in the South and indeed at
The present time it may Welling that war our troops are being killed by the bullets and the mind of the South if by ending the bombing of the north can bring to Vietnam will lives of thousand I don’t know why you’re worried about Kennedy in a second
Term because I don’t think your health will survive your first time where you going I want to be useful to you and I would listen even as you rant and Rave but I have worked far too hard and born far too much to watch you destroy yourself all the major political
Elements of South Vietnam to participate in their choice of leadership the bridge is a major Target and we’ve never hit it chance of Civilian deaths would be almost zero I say 100 to 500 possibly more which is it 500 or zero Mr President the stennis committee is up in arms over our holding
Back on these targets Bob’s testimony is coming up and it might take some heat off him if some of these could be cleared up before his appearance I can take the heat without padding my resume with more bombing missions this is a heavily defended Target in a very
Populated area the photos are right here Mr pres the photos are meaningless the target is heavily defended the pilots jettison their bombs when they’re under attack now I’ve been asking for two years why they don’t come straight up the river that way they dump the bombs
They go in the water and not on the people and I still haven’t got an answer coming in from the Gulf involves an extra turn with our backs to those heavy defenses if it is so well defended should we risk the pilots men dying is a relative thing the effect of the air
Campaign is cumulative every blow makes the enemy stretch his resources stretching is a relative thing Mr President we shouldn’t be bombing for punitive reasons but there just doesn’t seem any point to this anymore hit the goddamn bridge what’s next um number 309 sir the uh rail car repair shop mark
Mark oh Jesus oh Jesus come to me come s come S I got you I got you I got you I got you I don’t know what I’m going to do mark rostow the Chiefs they’re going to drive this thing Straight to Hell I won’t be long okay We don’t want your [ __ ] War 1 2 3 4 we don’t want your fuing War 1 2 3 we don’t want your [ __ ] War 1 2 3 4 we don’t want your [ __ ] 4 1 3 1 2 3 4 information spread out bring the tring the let’s go let’s go f inve it [Applause] up no rifle is to be loaded without my permission I’ll have the commanders go down the line again not one bullet damn [Applause] it we have the right to [Applause] [Applause] get off here let me go let me go over There there he is [Applause] That’s secretary mamra on behalf of the sub commmittee let me thank you for your appearance here today I have from the beginning and doe today fully support the objectives of the bombing to interdict men in supplies and hinder the enemy ability to wage war in the
South in this I am 100% Behind The Joint Chiefs Admiral sharp General West Morland and his commanders as they are fully aware and and as the president is aware we are all greatly encouraged to hear that Mr secretary you are the last to testify as you know and the overwhelming view from
General wheeler and the others is that there has been excessive interference from your office if I’d be permitted to finish my statement Senator stennis there are copies available outside the hearing room our greater objective however was and remains to persuade the leaders of North Vietnam that they cannot
Prevail in this we have been unsuccessful this is due to the fact that North Vietnam can sustain its forces in the South with a mere 100 tons of supplies a day 85 of which they can acquire through corrupt elements in the South Vietnamese government out of 359 targets recommended by the Chiefs only
57 remain unstruck two are battery plants manufacturing a total of 600 tons a year not enough to fill the corner of a Sears robu Regional Warehouse just a moment Mr there’s a rubber plant producing 30 tires a day the service station where I fill my car could Supply
The output of this facility excuse my interrupt hitting these targets will cost us and Pilots planes and hard cash and they will kill more and more civilians the military knows this they think it’s worth it I do not out you know what he did to me up there
It’s like selling your house and your son takes a buyer aside and tells him there’s leaks in the basement now Hano knows we’re divided and he’ll never stop i’ got to get rid of that son of a [ __ ] you can’t just get rid of him Republicans will play up the disunity
Bobby will have a field day Bobby’s clamoring for to resign don’t you know to go public against me for doing what he advised look we’ll find a job from maam miror we won’t be able to snipe at you I’ll help you fill his post with someone you can trust I’ll do anything I
Can for you Mr President but we have a reelection campaign to start and you do not have a policy to end this war CL you’ll do anything you can they’re ready for you Mr President yeah I’ll be out in a minute sit down Bob I’m sorry I found out from the
Washington Post I was sure fer told you for the bank people nobody told me anything Mr President I uh mentioned to you in the spring that I’ve been approached by the World Bank but I thought if you were going to nominate me you would have said something yourself doing fine work there
Humanitarian work I know that’s of interest to you yes but only if it’s what you want if I can no longer be of service service who’s been of more service to me than you well you’ve served longer than any defense Secret in history look what you’ve had to ship with us through the
Cuban crisis two Cuban crisis Berlin Dominican Middle East hell that’s a tough enough job in peace time and look what You’ had to deal with Mr president the point is I don’t have to leave until you want me to leave Bob Joe Fowler asked me for three
Nominees I said one magnam there were tears in the treasur secretary’s eyes cuz he was hoping he’d be my choice and with tears in his eyes he said he had to submit three names to the bank I said okay magnam magn and magne you ask him now the bank directors vote
Today but it’s uh it’s just a formality now Bob I’ve got to get over to Lady bir’s beautification Awards important to her your wife’s a same with a reading program I know yes although with her condition has been difficult uh no improvements in surgery my son uh he has them as
Well you deserve whatever you want from this government my obligation is to help you and this was within my power to Grant you people have an obligation to the president not the other way around may your selfish service spent in defending free Freedom bring even greater rewards in the larger work that
You now undertake to promote Freedom throughout the world sign Lindon B Johnson prisent this is the medal of freedom the highest award a president can bestow upon a citizen of the United States i w it now to a loyal brilliant good man Robert magnamar the very best we
Have Mr President this is almost an impossible situation to respond to you’re useful impossible situation I stand here tonight tell you that I regard Bob mnam here as not only one of the smartest but one of the most Humane men on [Applause] Earth One put the men
In two call up the reserves and extend tours of Duty and three expand the bombing [Applause] Mr President uh I cannot uh find the words to express what lies in my heart today and uh I think I better respond at another [Applause] time Mr Clifford does your acceptance of
The job of Defense secretary signal your interest in elected office it signals only my desire to serve a great president and a longtime friend I am 61 years old and I’m sure this will finish me [Applause] off it’s been observed that in your views on Vietnam you’ve changed from
Dove to Hawk which are you I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions I tell you this he’s no ostrich I know if no man will C it as it is with such cander and judgment as this man Clark cord we got light at the end of the tunnel
[Applause] now it’s probably a small attack Mr President the embassy compound’s been hit before Mr secretary it’s not just the embassy Palace legislature airport too secretary Rusk put on the speaker phone go ahead van Dean I’ve got the duty officer at the embassy Alan Brandt
Mr brand Mr brt can you hear me they’re shooting right outside Mr secretary but outside of the embassy compound inside they blew through the wall they’re at the doors R out casualty report do you have something to defend yourself with Mr brand I’m at the window they’re below me they see me they’re
Looking right at me I’ve got to go Mr secretary I’ve got to go I got to small attack these are desperation moves Mr President we’ve got them on the run it’s not just saon the Viet Kong have launched surprise attacks on 36 of the 44 provincial capitals of South Vietnam
From the streets of way near the DMZ to the US Embassy compound in Saigon to casually count on both sides has been unprecedented the US military says it is successfully beating back the Viet Kong attacks but clearly they are paying an enormous price the enemy’s well-laid
Plans went a foul they tried to ignite revolution in the South and they failed if this is a failure God help us when they have a success I’ve given them all the men the planes the guns the bullets he said he needed I thought we were winning this thing now W Mor says he wants 206,000 more troops 206,000 you have 750,000 there 3/4 of a million men in in Vietnam L at the end
Of the tunnel and we don’t even have a tunnel we don’t even know where the tunnel is I want you to get West Morland here get your people together we look at this thing we’ll give them the boys if we have to but on your recommendation
You’ll wait I’ll wait but not for long if he needs them what the hell am I supposed to do oh FR give me an answer give us these troops and we can seize the initiative it will just be more of the same the enemy’s taken to 200,000 killed and he’ll take 200,000
More we’ve lost a tenth that many and Americans are rioting in the street they should be cheering the Viet Kong Lost we were victorious that’s true well but remember they only committed 175,000 men to this offensive holding enough back to strike again that’s right Dam and it
Could happen at any time I say put the men in there are no more trained men we would ship raw troops and train them in the rear what rear there is no rear in Vietnam anymore I would hope we’ve at least learned learn that from this
Victory with 206,000 more men we can go into La Cambodia North Vietnam and cut off the Supply Route once and for all we have never been given that Authority excuse me General Dean you said the enemy committed 175,000 men to the offensive that’s try Clark and General West Morland says that
They suffered 45,000 killed with a 1 to 3.5 killed to wounded ratio it’s right here in my report we beat the pants off them then how in hell do we justify to the public sending hundreds of thousands more men we tell them this that we’re within inches of Victory inches 45,000 killed yes
General yes sir and three and 1 half times that number are out of action it’s in the report Clark If there’s 45,000 dead and three and 1 half times that number 160,000 157,500 wounded plus 4 5,000 dead General according to you and General West Morland we have killed and wounded 120% of the
Enemy it’s becoming more and more evident that an out andout Military Victory cannot be achieved with any strategy so these are my recommendations one send West Morland only those forces that will satisfy his immediate needs wheeler has agreed to 22,000 plus the units previously approved and already scheduled for deployment this would
Stave off immediate defeat while we move to negotiations we realized that the settlement would not be favorable for Saigon and they would fight it two the bombing wheeler the other Chiefs and Walt rosow all Advocate hitting the remaining Targets in hanoy and high Fong and Mining and bombing the harvers with the
Support of everyone else I recommend a bombing halt I’ve told you I’m not going to stop the bombing it keeps the lead out of our boys there’s little evidence to support that sir and the bombing is going to be the single greatest issue in the presidential campaign the perception is
Evolving out there that Eugene McCarthy is the peace candidate and you are the war candidate if McCarthy has a good showing in New Hampshire I think Bobby will throw his hat in well he he can’t beat you if you’re sitting at the peace table do you peace table sell out South
Vietnam this is your advice if I could lay a plan to win the war before you I got to go on TV in 3 weeks and explain all this to the American people huh you were telling me to cut and run admit defeat the 20,000 American boys have died for nothing the
20,000 American Mothers Weep For Nothing the situation has changed since T yes it has t was a failure the enemy failed to overrun us we are poised to win and now it’s only you and your people who are advising against the extra effort it’ll take to turn three years of miserable
War into Victory and I’m telling you there is no Victory to be had not without measures that’ll tear this country apart and bring down on this Administration I told you to get out of Vietnam 3 years ago Lyon when you about two years ago and one hey you shot down
Every bomb and Paws back every troop increase don’t you excuse me Mr President my Council has not deviated one wit my every word then as now has been informed solely by my commitment to preserve your presidency and establish your place in this country’s history I should have cleaned house November 63
Got rid of all of them man no Bundy conly warn me those [ __ ] Kennedy lovers will be disloyal to me all of them they only advised you Mr President you decided against all your Natural Instincts against the whole of your life experience you decided Senator Eugene McCarthy a dove
On Vietnam who was virtually unknown to voters of this state two months ago has finished in a virtual tie with the sitting president of the United States Lyndon Johnson since polls taken only a week ago predicted Johnson would win 2third of the vote and McCarthy only 11% the Senator’s surprisingly High turnout has
Shocked the country I run because it is now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong
Feelings about what must be done and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can oh I was there I run to seek I was there when you told your brother we went to that place I was there and now I’m paying for it
Day after day after day while you cut me to Pieces there blood in your hands you TR that war our troops are being killed by the bullets and the mindes of the South if by ending the bombing of the north we can bring peace to South Vietnam and we
Will save the lives of thousands of our young men and thousands of Vietnamese yes Mr President I talked to Mills he won’t back a war s tax and this a go on TV and announce deep Cuts I want you to go up there and talk to everybody on ways and means I’m meeting with five of them in the morning
Sir take actly up with you back up the numbers they don’t believe anything out of the White House anymore it’s a good idea anything else Mr President are you all right Mr President yeah I’m all right Joe Senator kenedy’s speech who wrote it for him this guy willinsky on his staff’s
Been writing a lot of his stuff I don’t know maybe Schlesinger Sorenson good wi I think he was involved yes all right J thanks sir I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having spoken first clearly to the greatest purveyor of
Violence in the world today my own government the largest antiw War demonstrations yet brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets of America’s cities the radicals say that since peaceful demonstrations won’t end the war they’re ready to move from protest to resistance with talk of fullscale rebellion sweeping the country from
College campuses to the inner cities the mood is turning ugly and there is a dangerous sense that the nation’s political life is spinning out of control for it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate this Summer’s almost certain standoff will
Either end in real give and take negotiations or terrible escalation but it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to to negotiate not as Victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could
This is wer gr good night Well say what you think all right it’s tough and effective but the music in it is sad and sour to the ear and I don’t know that any speech writer could have made it sing I got a 100 bills in committee I’ve never see the lot to day
But I think I could pass a thousand bills more education more Health Care More rights but it wouldn’t matter cuz it seems nothing I say no matter how I say it and never bring this country together again then perhaps eloquence of speech is no longer the answer but eloquence of
Action Mr secretary would you be kind enough to make sure that the president sees that this evening Clark ladybird I’d promis that he’d have those budget figures by the end of the day oh he’s right inside no no no I won’t disturb him thank you good night and
Clark and Clark I I got the space here I need you Happ you know that I’m at your service Mr President I know of For Good evening my fellow Americans tonight I want to speak to you of Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia we are prepared to move immediately towards peace through negotiations we are reducing substantially reducing the present level of hostilities and we are doing so unilaterally and at once tonight I have ordered our aircraft
And our Naval vessels make no more attacks on North Vietnam except in the area north of the militarized Zone where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens Allied forward positions the area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90% of North Vietnam’s population and most of its
Territory our purpose in this action is to bring about a reduction in the level of violence that now exists it is to save the lives of brave men and to save the lives of innocent women and children now as in the past the United States is ready to send its
Representatives to any Forum at any time to discuss the means of bringing this ugly War to an end there is a division in the American house now there is divisiveness among us all tonight with America’s sons in the fields far away with America’s future under challenge right here at home with
Our hopes and the world’s hope for peace in the balance every day I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office president of your country accordingly I shall not
Seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president but let men everywhere know however that a strong and a confident and a Vigilant America stands right ready tonight to seek an honorable peace and stands ready tonight to defend an honored cause whatever the prize
Whatever the burden whatever the sacrifice the duty may require thank you for listening good night and God bless you all
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2002
The actor playing Goodwin was excellent in the Tudors series with Jonathan Rhys Myers.
Tragically, delicious…
Lbj- the misr corrupt president in history.
But he did great stuff with Medicare and Civil Rights.
But Vietnam war- what a disaster he got screwed and lied to by his "advisors".
It is unfortunate but since the era of isolationist USA it has always supported war over peace. The real power is not in the presidency, nor in the government generally. Those who rely on the military/industrial machine seem to always be able to hoodwink everyone. "War IS peace"???
I've never feared one of our Presidents but I do fear the people around them!
Freaking psychopaths one and all. Now they don't even hide their reasoning. It's for profits they kill and destroy without one concern or care about humanity.
LBJ was an abortion, a disaster for the American people and for the nation. We have never recovered from all the damage he did.
Is it Lyndon Johnson ?
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my favorite part of this movie came at the 7 1/2 minute mark which saw president johnson pissing in his commode and then shaking off the last drop. I am so glad they did not edit this out. for this country is a very filthy speaking country and we also love to see crude and filthy things. thank you so very flucking much.