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No more war! No more war!
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No more war!
No more war!
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No more war! No more war!
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No more war! No more war!
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No more war!
No more war!
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No more war!
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U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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# Love is but a song to sing #
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# Fear's the way we die #
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# You can
make the mountains ring #
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# Or make the angels cry #
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# Come on, people, now #
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# Smile on your brother #
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# Everybody get together #
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# Try to love one another
right now #
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My brother picked me up
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at Travis Air Force Base.
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And I remember he had a Valiant,
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an old beat-up Valiant.
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And we met inside the terminal.
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And I was so happy to see him.
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I just love my brother.
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He said, "Now, I don't
want you to get upset,
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"but we're probably
gonna get some trouble
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when we go outside."
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And I went, "Trouble?
I just got back from Vietnam.
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What are you talking about?"
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I mean, I knew
that there was unrest.
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# If you hear the song I sing #
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But when we got in his car
to drive away from the terminal,
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we had to wind our way
through protesters
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that were pounding on the car
with the ends of their signs
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and were snarling at me
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and pounding on the window
and shouting obscenities at me.
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That was my welcome home
to America.
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I was just stunned.
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# Come on, people, now #
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I have never felt...
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any anger toward people
that were war protesters.
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It's a legitimate
political stance.
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For people that
descended into that, I...
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I-I think that
they were really wrong.
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# Try to love
one another right now #
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It was this-this heartbreak
of why are you doing this?
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I mean, you don't know who I am.
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And it happened over and over.
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# Everybody get together #
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# Try to love one another
right now #
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# Right now #
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# Right now. #
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In the spring of 1970,
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despite the uproar
over the invasion of Cambodia
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and the killing of four students
at Kent State,
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President Nixon's hold
on what he called
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"the great silent majority"
seemed secure.
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A Gallup poll showed
that most Americans
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blamed the students,
not the national guardsmen,
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for what had happened.
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At an antiwar demonstration
in Manhattan,
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hundreds of construction
workers in hard hats
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attacked protesters,
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sending 70 to the hospital.
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And when workers
marched on City Hall
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a few days later,
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Nixon wrote
the president of their union
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to say how pleased he was
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"to see the tremendous
outpouring
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"of support for our country
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demonstrated in your orderly
and most heartening rally."
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How do you feel about
the construction workers
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who attacked the, uh,
demonstrators last Friday?
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Don't say attacked.
Don't say attacked.
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They were provoked.
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They were provoked, man.
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We work for a living.
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Every day we get up,
we're out there in the cold,
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the rain, the snow, right?
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We got to have these dirty s...
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Forget about it, I don't
want to talk about it, man.
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Anybody that can take
a Viet Cong flag and fly it
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and wave it and bring it
up this avenue
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and get away with it...
and get away with it...
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that's unpatriotic to me.
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When American
troops withdrew from Cambodia
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at the end of June,
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the White House reported
that they had killed
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11,349 enemy troops,
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captured 22,000 weapons
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and had destroyed 11,688
bunkers and buildings.
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But after so many years
of fighting,
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more and more Americans
were tired of the war,
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wanted to get out
of Southeast Asia,
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and did not want the president
to expand the conflict further.
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Among their representatives
in Congress,
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antiwar sentiment
had steadily grown.
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As the president searched
for a face-saving way
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to end the war, he continued
to withdraw troops.
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U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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But even as American
casualty figures fell,
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the gulf between Americans
at home widened,
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tearing communities,
neighborhoods,
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even families apart.
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No more war! No more war!
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Nixon was convinced...
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just as Lyndon Johnson
had been...
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that the antiwar movement
was somehow
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being directed from Hanoi,
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Beijing and Moscow.
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"Within the iron gates
of the White House
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a siege mentality
was settling in,"
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a Nixon aide remembered.
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"It was now us against them.
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"Gradually, as we drew
the circle closer around us,
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the ranks of them
began to swell."
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I think the
Vietnam War drove a stake
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right into the heart of America.
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It polarized the country
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as it had probably
never been polarized
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since before the Civil War.
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And unfortunately,
we've never moved
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really far away from that.
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And we never recovered.
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No more war! No more war!
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U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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No more war! No more war!
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No more war! No more war!
U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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No more war! No more war!
No more war!
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Thank you very much, indeed,
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and welcome to this,
uh, special,
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very special edition
of The David Frost Show.
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The vice president himself
wanted to debate with students,
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and we suggested a format
in which he might like to do so.
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Welcome Eva Jefferson
from Northwestern,
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who testified
before the Scranton Commission
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on Campus Unrest and is majoring
in political science.
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Is that right?
Right.
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Eva Jefferson,
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whose father
had served in Vietnam,
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was now the student body
president
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at Northwestern University.
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After Kent State,
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she had forcefully stopped
angry protestors
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from burning down the ROTC
building at her school,
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and later testified before
a presidential commission
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looking into the causes
of student unrest.
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She had warned then
that some students
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were becoming so frustrated
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that they felt
they had no choice
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but to engage in violence.
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And right now
it's a privilege to welcome
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the vice president
of the United States,
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Spiro T. Agnew.
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Let me
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take brief exception
to one thing you've said,
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that the only way
to get the attention
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of the society
is to bomb buildings.
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What I attempted to do
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before the Scranton Committee
was to explain
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what could motivate someone
to blow up a building.
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I did not say I endorse this,
and if you read my testimony
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quite carefully,
you'll know that I didn't.
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And it's this type of-of just
picking up on what,
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allegedly, I said instead
of really studying what I said
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that-that really disturbs me.
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May I respond?
Because you're making people
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afraid of their own children.
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Yet they're your children,
they're my parents' children,
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they're the children
of this country.
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Yet you're making people
afraid of them.
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And I think this
is the greatest disservice.
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There's an honest difference
of agreement on issues,
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but-but when you make people
afraid of each other,
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you-you isolate people,
and maybe this is your goal,
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but I think this is...
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this could only have
a disastrous effect
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on the country.
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Let me say first
that isolating people
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is not my goal.
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If that were true I wouldn't be
here tonight.
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And let me take exception
to that
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oft-repeated rationale
that, uh,
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violence is the only way
to get results.
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I was trying to explain to you
the rationale of some students
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who are openly revolutionary.
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You're not listening
to what I'm saying.
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I'm-I'm really distressed. Just what are...
what are you advocating?
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They were trying to politically
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benefit from making us out to be
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these scary, horrible,
violent people.
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We weren't.
We were against the war.
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We thought the war was wrong.
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We thought we were lied to.
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And we were in the streets.
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America has always had
a rich tradition of protests.
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We were founded
by protesting England.
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So to make people
afraid of their kids,
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I think, was wrong,
but that's what they were about.
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They were fearmongers.
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It was fratricide.
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You can say, "Well, but-but
they are communist."
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Okay, they're communist.
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"They are the worst Vietnamese
in the entire world.
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We were the good Vietnamese."
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But let's face
Vietnamese killing Vietnamese.
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How-how do you deny that?
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If you don't
call that fratricide,
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what do you call that?
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What do you... how do we...
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I explain that
to-to my children?
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The Cambodian incursion had
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at least temporarily reduced
the flow of North Vietnamese
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men and supplies
through that country,
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but they were still
streaming down
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the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.
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The White House
wanted them stopped.
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But this time,
South Vietnamese troops
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would have to try
to do the job alone.
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By the end of 1970,
both houses of Congress
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had barred
all U.S. ground personnel,
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even advisors
and special forces,
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from crossing the border.
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On February 8, 1971,
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17,000 ARVN troops
began moving into Laos
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to destroy
the enemy's jungle bases
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and to cut off
the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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The Americans
could only provide air support.
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Nixon and his
National Security Advisor,
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Henry Kissinger, believed that
a successful operation
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would boost morale in Saigon
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and prove to Hanoi
and the American public
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that the ARVN could fight
and win on their own,
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that Vietnamization could work.
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Their target was the
North Vietnamese logistics hub,
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the abandoned town of Tchepone.
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U.S. intelligence
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believed there were no more
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than 22,000 North Vietnamese
troops in the area.
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But there would eventually turn
out to be 60,000,
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and their commanders knew
there was only one route
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the ARVN was likely to take.
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Harry Hue, who had been fighting
the communists
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for eight years,
was in the invasion force.
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Although individual
ARVN units fought bravely,
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the invasion was a failure.
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Almost half
of the 17,000 South Vietnamese
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who entered Laos
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would be killed,
wounded or captured.
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In late March,
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as the surviving ARVN forces
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straggled back across the border
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into South Vietnam,
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crowds of weeping women,
children and old men...
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dressed in white,
the color of mourning...
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begged for news of the soldiers
who were missing.
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In Vietnam, the dead
must receive proper burial
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so that their restless souls
can have peace,
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and their families
needed to know
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the time of their deaths
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so that they could honor them
each year.
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Even before
the invasion was over,
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President Nixon
had told an aide,
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"We must claim victory,
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whatever the outcome."
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Consequently, tonight,
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I can report that Vietnamization
has succeeded.
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Because of
the increased strength
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of the South Vietnamese,
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because of the success
of the Cambodian operation,
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because of the achievements
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of the South Vietnamese
operation in Laos,
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I am announcing an increase
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in the rate
of American withdrawals.
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We have it in our power
to leave Vietnam
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in a way
that offers a brave people
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a realistic hope of freedom.
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We have it in our power
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to prove to our friends
in the world
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that America's
sense of responsibility
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remains the world's
greatest single hope of peace.
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And generations in the future
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will look back
at this difficult,
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trying time
in America's history,
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and they will be proud
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that we demonstrated
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that we had the courage
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and the character
of a great people.
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Dr. Kissinger, sir.
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Yeah.
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Mr. President?
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Yeah. Hi, Henry.
291
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This was the best
speech you've delivered
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since you've been in office.
293
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Yeah.
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I'll tell you one thing,
this was, uh...
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This little speech
was a work of art.
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I mean, I-I know a little
something about speechwriting.
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And it was no act,
because no actor could do it.
298
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No actor in Hollywood
could have done that that well.
299
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It's the best...
300
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,229
I thought that was
clone well, didn't you think?
301
00:17:25,253 --> 00:17:26,605
First of all, no
actor could have written it,
302
00:17:26,629 --> 00:17:27,801
to begin with.
303
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You couldn't have done it
unless you had meant it.
304
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Yeah.
305
00:17:31,008 --> 00:17:33,261
And if it doesn't work,
I don't care.
306
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I mean, right now,
if it doesn't work...
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Then let me say, though,
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I'm going to find out soon,
309
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and then I'm going to turn right
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so goddamn hard
it'll make your head spin.
311
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We'll bomb those bastards
right out of the...
312
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off the earth.
I really mean it.
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# In this dirty old part
of the city #
314
00:17:57,368 --> 00:18:01,714
# Where the sun
refuse to shine #
315
00:18:01,831 --> 00:18:05,005
# People tell me
there ain't no use in trying #
316
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Do you belong
to the same generation
317
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that is protesting at home?
318
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Do you feel as if you belong
319
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to those people?
Very much.
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You do?
Very much.
321
00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:19,398
I wish they'd get us
out of here, I really do.
322
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# We gotta get out
of this place #
323
00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:26,573
# If it's the last thing
we ever do #
324
00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:29,818
# We gotta get out
of this place #
325
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# Girl, there's a better life #
326
00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:34,823
Almost all of us were draftees.
327
00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:37,826
None of us cared a damn
about the war.
328
00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:40,544
We just didn't want
to get blown up.
329
00:18:40,661 --> 00:18:42,709
We just didn't want to die
in the jungle,
330
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holding your guts in.
331
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So the idea is do six months,
maybe eight months,
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get an R&R, take a deep breath
and try to finish up,
333
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try to do something that would
get you sent to base camp.
334
00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:03,852
Just don't die
because you're not gonna win.
335
00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:06,024
# We gotta get
out of this place #
336
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:09,524
# If it's the last thing
we ever do #
337
00:19:09,649 --> 00:19:11,777
Chess is the
most serious contest
338
00:19:11,901 --> 00:19:13,574
Glen Hindley will engage in,
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for he has not fired a shot
in his nine months
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in the field
with Charlie Company.
341
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,880
Well, I haven't
shot anybody yet.
342
00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:21,665
I don't plan on it.
343
00:19:21,786 --> 00:19:23,754
I haven't fired my gun
since I been here,
344
00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:25,873
and I like it that way.
345
00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:28,092
How can you get away with that?
346
00:19:28,209 --> 00:19:29,677
Just don't fire it.
347
00:19:29,794 --> 00:19:31,091
I plan to go across the...
348
00:19:31,212 --> 00:19:32,429
across country when I get back
349
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because I'll see
the people I know over here,
350
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:36,721
plus I'll be able to talk
to a lot of other people,
351
00:19:36,842 --> 00:19:38,890
maybe convince them
that killing for peace
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00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:40,183
just doesn't make sense.
353
00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:43,308
# We gotta get
out of this place #
354
00:19:43,432 --> 00:19:48,529
# If it's the last thing
we ever do #
355
00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:50,444
# We gotta get out
of this place. #
356
00:19:50,564 --> 00:19:52,709
"The morale,
discipline, and battleworthiness
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of the U.S. Armed Forces,"
a retired Marine colonel wrote
358
00:19:56,737 --> 00:19:58,990
in the spring of 1971,
359
00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:02,335
"are lower and worse
than at any time,
360
00:20:02,451 --> 00:20:06,627
possibly in the history
of the United States."
361
00:20:06,789 --> 00:20:08,883
An official report had found
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00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,969
that one out of four
enlisted men in Vietnam
363
00:20:12,128 --> 00:20:14,881
had used marijuana regularly...
364
00:20:15,005 --> 00:20:17,599
but almost never in combat.
365
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:19,970
There's, uh, drugs everywhere.
366
00:20:20,094 --> 00:20:21,311
Really, you could, uh...
367
00:20:21,429 --> 00:20:23,852
Well, within...
within ten minutes in country,
368
00:20:23,973 --> 00:20:26,146
I-I had people approaching me
selling scag.
369
00:20:26,267 --> 00:20:27,484
What's scag?
370
00:20:27,601 --> 00:20:28,693
It's heroin.
371
00:20:28,811 --> 00:20:31,735
Heroin was cheap,
372
00:20:31,856 --> 00:20:34,405
pure, and everywhere.
373
00:20:34,525 --> 00:20:37,074
The Pentagon
would eventually acknowledge
374
00:20:37,194 --> 00:20:40,869
that 40,000 American troops
had been addicted to it.
375
00:20:40,990 --> 00:20:44,210
# We gotta get
out of this place #
376
00:20:44,326 --> 00:20:47,751
# If it's the last thing
we ever do #
377
00:20:47,872 --> 00:20:50,045
# We gotta get out
of this place #
378
00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:53,466
# Girl, there's a better life #
379
00:20:54,837 --> 00:20:57,260
# For me and you #
380
00:20:57,381 --> 00:20:59,258
# Ooh, baby #
381
00:20:59,383 --> 00:21:03,183
"The rearguard
of a once 500,000-man army,"
382
00:21:03,304 --> 00:21:04,521
an officer wrote,
383
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,401
"is numbly extricating itself
from a nightmare war
384
00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:11,646
"the armed forces feel
they had foisted on them
385
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:15,150
"by bright civilians
who are now back on campus
386
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:19,871
writing books
about the folly of it all."
387
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:22,623
Even General Creighton Abrams,
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00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:25,869
commander of military operations
in Vietnam,
389
00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:27,791
now admitted privately,
390
00:21:27,912 --> 00:21:31,132
"1 need to get this army home
to save it."
391
00:21:31,248 --> 00:21:32,670
# I know it, too, baby #
392
00:21:32,792 --> 00:21:34,715
# Oh, yeah. #
393
00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:45,141
The telegrams and letters
coming into this courthouse
394
00:21:45,262 --> 00:21:47,390
are from all parts
of the country.
395
00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:50,355
From Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
a man writes,
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00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:52,979
"Congratulations
to the Calley jurors.
397
00:21:53,103 --> 00:21:55,276
"A courageous and fair decision.
398
00:21:55,397 --> 00:21:57,399
Justice still exists."
399
00:21:57,566 --> 00:22:02,413
On March 29, 1971,
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00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:04,328
at Fort Benning, Georgia,
401
00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:07,452
a military court found
Lieutenant William Calley...
402
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,795
and only Lieutenant Calley...
403
00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:12,461
guilty of murdering
Vietnamese civilians
404
00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:15,505
at My Lai back in 1968.
405
00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:22,763
He was sentenced to life
imprisonment at hard labor.
406
00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:25,477
The commander
of Calley's division,
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00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:27,642
General Samuel Koster,
408
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:30,562
who had watched some of
the slaughter from a helicopter
409
00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:33,562
and done nothing to stop it,
was now the superintendent
410
00:22:33,686 --> 00:22:36,906
of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point.
411
00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:40,777
He was forced to resign.
412
00:22:40,943 --> 00:22:43,947
The other 23 officers and men
413
00:22:44,113 --> 00:22:46,332
who had been indicted
were either acquitted
414
00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:49,122
or had their cases dismissed.
415
00:22:49,243 --> 00:22:52,622
The Calley verdict
proved as controversial
416
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:54,961
as the war itself.
417
00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:57,130
A lady in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, says,
418
00:22:57,251 --> 00:22:59,470
"What the jury has
done to Lieutenant Calley
419
00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:01,630
"is a disgrace to this nation.
420
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:03,598
"The enemy is the enemy,
421
00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:06,390
the enemy is the enemy."
422
00:23:06,510 --> 00:23:08,763
From Bellefontaine, Ohio,
a doctor says,
423
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:11,516
"Let us not condemn
Lieutenant Calley
424
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,859
"when it is the character
of the war
425
00:23:13,976 --> 00:23:16,604
which is at fault
for such slaughters as My Lai."
426
00:23:16,729 --> 00:23:19,949
What is your initial reaction
to this verdict, sir?
427
00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:22,193
I thought he would be found
not guilty.
428
00:23:22,318 --> 00:23:24,161
'Cause you send in a man
into combat,
429
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,573
you train him
to be a... a killer,
430
00:23:26,697 --> 00:23:28,825
and then, when he does,
why then,
431
00:23:28,991 --> 00:23:30,789
uh, you prosecute him?
432
00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:36,333
Some believed everyone
involved should have gone to jail;
433
00:23:36,498 --> 00:23:39,502
others believed that Calley
had been made a scapegoat
434
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:43,514
for the criminal misdeeds
of his superiors.
435
00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:47,477
And still others felt a systemic
failure of leadership
436
00:23:47,593 --> 00:23:49,846
had occurred
in a chain of command
437
00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:54,567
that stretched all the way up
to the commander in chief.
438
00:23:57,186 --> 00:23:58,904
According to a Gallup poll,
439
00:23:59,021 --> 00:24:04,152
79% of the American public
disagreed with the verdict.
440
00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:07,655
Nixon decided to intervene.
441
00:24:10,032 --> 00:24:13,377
Calley spent just
three days behind bars.
442
00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:17,252
The president
ordered him transferred
443
00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:19,501
from federal prison
to house arrest
444
00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,753
at Fort Benning, pending appeal.
445
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:23,879
Okay, I'm gonna walk
back from each side.
446
00:24:24,004 --> 00:24:26,052
Captain Aubrey Daniel,
447
00:24:26,215 --> 00:24:28,718
who had successfully
prosecuted Calley,
448
00:24:28,842 --> 00:24:31,971
wrote Nixon,
accusing him of compromising
449
00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:34,645
"such a fundamental
moral principle
450
00:24:34,765 --> 00:24:37,143
"as the inherent unlawfulness
451
00:24:37,267 --> 00:24:40,362
of the murder
of innocent persons."
452
00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,857
A military appeals court
453
00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:46,737
eventually reduced
Calley's term to 20 years,
454
00:24:46,902 --> 00:24:49,746
the secretary of the army
cut it to ten,
455
00:24:49,905 --> 00:24:52,328
and after just
three-and-a-half years
456
00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:55,373
under house arrest,
he was paroled.
457
00:24:59,623 --> 00:25:01,921
Who's responsible?
458
00:25:04,253 --> 00:25:08,508
The human beings who did this...
459
00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:12,057
These are war crimes.
460
00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:16,023
The individual human beings
who put a rifle muzzle
461
00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:17,187
up against a baby's head
462
00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:20,607
and shot the brains
out of that baby...
463
00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:23,522
nothing happened to them.
464
00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:25,900
Nothing!
465
00:25:33,323 --> 00:25:37,123
And we walked
up the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
466
00:25:39,288 --> 00:25:42,041
And they said we walked
900 kilometers...
467
00:25:42,166 --> 00:25:47,844
540 miles in 57 days.
468
00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:51,718
And we met all these people
going both ways.
469
00:25:51,842 --> 00:25:55,312
We met civilians coming south.
470
00:25:55,471 --> 00:25:58,145
We met soldiers
going north and south.
471
00:25:58,307 --> 00:26:01,402
We met people humping
artillery rounds.
472
00:26:01,518 --> 00:26:02,770
We met a...
473
00:26:02,895 --> 00:26:04,738
I remember a whole unit,
474
00:26:04,855 --> 00:26:06,778
a company-size unit,
of women.
475
00:26:09,193 --> 00:26:12,163
On the way,
in one of these villages,
476
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:15,658
I stole a uniform.
477
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,002
Just khaki pants
and khaki shirt.
478
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,336
And I stole it.
479
00:26:20,454 --> 00:26:23,833
And I folded it up
and I put it in my pack.
480
00:26:23,957 --> 00:26:27,177
By early 1971,
481
00:26:27,294 --> 00:26:29,171
army doctor Hal Kushner
482
00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:31,014
had been a prisoner
of the Viet Cong
483
00:26:31,173 --> 00:26:34,473
in South Vietnam
for more than three years.
484
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:40,145
He had survived ill treatment
and a host of illnesses,
485
00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:43,610
and he had buried
13 of his fellow captives,
486
00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:45,525
who had died of starvation
487
00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:49,191
and sickness and despair.
488
00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:53,071
Now, he and the other survivors
from his camp
489
00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:56,825
were being moved
all the way to North Vietnam.
490
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:00,877
Kushner and his companions
491
00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:03,292
eventually reached
the city of Vinh,
492
00:27:03,413 --> 00:27:06,087
where they boarded
a train to Hanoi.
493
00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:08,210
And I put on this fresh uniform,
494
00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:10,095
and when I got off the train
495
00:27:10,212 --> 00:27:13,842
I was met with this officer
in a jeep.
496
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:15,559
And he just looked at me
and he said,
497
00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:16,861
"You're an officer, aren't you?
498
00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:18,979
You come here."
499
00:27:19,096 --> 00:27:21,349
And he just... I felt very proud
that I looked good
500
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:23,350
when I came off that train.
501
00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:33,073
Kushner joined
hundreds of American captives
502
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,696
who were scattered
among five prisons
503
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:38,916
in and around Hanoi.
504
00:27:39,032 --> 00:27:41,581
We hadn't been there
long when the word came down
505
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:44,455
from the American
senior ranking officer
506
00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:48,881
that nobody would go home
unless everybody went home.
507
00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:51,925
That nobody would cooperate
with the Vietnamese.
508
00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,854
But we heard him
on the camp radio once...
509
00:28:02,973 --> 00:28:05,897
...telling us that
we should cooperate.
510
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:10,940
And it was obvious, from
his voice and his inflection,
511
00:28:11,106 --> 00:28:13,108
that he had been
tortured and beaten
512
00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:16,112
and was being made to say that.
513
00:28:16,236 --> 00:28:18,284
And that's what they did.
514
00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:22,785
Eventually, Kushner,
like most of the prisoners,
515
00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:25,584
would be forced
to record a statement
516
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,627
against the war.
517
00:29:02,032 --> 00:29:03,672
They wanted
propaganda statements
518
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:05,247
to say the war was criminal,
519
00:29:05,369 --> 00:29:07,838
to say that we were criminals.
520
00:29:07,996 --> 00:29:10,169
And they used our weakness
against us.
521
00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:18,595
No more war!
No more war! No more war!
522
00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:22,470
No more war!
No more war!
523
00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:24,562
The first time in our history
524
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,149
that veterans came home
from a war and said...
525
00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:28,688
while the war
is still going on...
526
00:29:28,809 --> 00:29:31,779
and said,
"This war's got to stop."
527
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:34,739
And the American people
528
00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:37,200
might not listen to a bunch
of long-haired hippie kids.
529
00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:39,115
What do they know?
530
00:29:39,236 --> 00:29:41,989
But the working class,
the great "silent majority"...
531
00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,537
Richard Nixon always talked
about his "silent majority"
532
00:29:44,658 --> 00:29:47,127
that would back him
by being silent...
533
00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:49,713
we were their kids.
534
00:29:49,871 --> 00:29:52,465
And it finally dawned on me...
535
00:29:52,582 --> 00:29:54,630
and this was a long,
painful process...
536
00:29:54,751 --> 00:29:57,595
that... that I wasn't
helping anybody
537
00:29:57,713 --> 00:30:00,808
by keeping my mouth shut.
538
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,053
Less than three
weeks after Lieutenant Calley
539
00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:06,847
was found guilty,
some 2,000 members
540
00:30:06,972 --> 00:30:08,895
of an organization called
541
00:30:09,016 --> 00:30:11,439
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
542
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,236
and their followers descended
upon Washington, D.C.
543
00:30:16,398 --> 00:30:20,278
# Ooh, storm is threatening #
544
00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:23,906
# My very life today #
545
00:30:24,031 --> 00:30:28,912
# If I don't get some shelter #
546
00:30:29,077 --> 00:30:32,422
# Oh, yeah,
I'm gonna fade away #
547
00:30:32,581 --> 00:30:36,051
# War, children #
548
00:30:36,168 --> 00:30:38,591
# It's just a shot away #
549
00:30:38,712 --> 00:30:40,680
# It's just a shot away #
550
00:30:40,797 --> 00:30:44,176
# War, children #
551
00:30:44,301 --> 00:30:46,099
# It's just a shot away #
552
00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:49,765
# It's just
a shot away. #
553
00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:53,310
VVAW was a-a...
it was great therapy.
554
00:30:53,435 --> 00:30:55,529
We were working it out
ourselves.
555
00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:57,898
Vets taking care of vets.
556
00:30:58,023 --> 00:30:59,696
We were generals
in our own right.
557
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,284
And we didn't join anything.
558
00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:02,948
We became something.
559
00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:05,118
And that, yes, I was a Marine,
560
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,953
but I was first and foremost
561
00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,334
a citizen
of the United States of America.
562
00:31:09,451 --> 00:31:13,206
And being a citizen,
I had certain responsibilities.
563
00:31:13,330 --> 00:31:16,300
And the largest
of those responsibilities
564
00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:19,712
is standing up to your
government and saying "no"
565
00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:21,838
when it's doing something
that you think
566
00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:24,637
is not in this nation's
best interest.
567
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,977
That is the most important job
that every citizen has.
568
00:31:30,138 --> 00:31:33,768
# Rape, murder #
569
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:36,987
I served my
country as honorably,
570
00:31:37,145 --> 00:31:40,194
when I was in Vietnam Veterans
Against the War,
571
00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:43,910
as I did
as a United States Marine.
572
00:31:44,027 --> 00:31:47,327
And, in fact,
I conducted myself as a Marine
573
00:31:47,489 --> 00:31:50,163
the whole time I was in VVAW.
574
00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:51,785
I... My-my whole life,
575
00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,629
I conduct myself as a Marine.
576
00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:58,046
Navy Lieutenant John Kerry,
577
00:31:58,166 --> 00:32:01,386
who had commanded a swift boat
in the Mekong Delta
578
00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:04,006
and was one of
the organization's leaders,
579
00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:05,469
was invited to address
580
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:07,684
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee,
581
00:32:07,843 --> 00:32:10,767
still chaired
by J. William Fulbright.
582
00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:12,264
Thank you.
583
00:32:12,389 --> 00:32:15,734
I went up for the presentation.
584
00:32:15,851 --> 00:32:18,024
And it was standing room only.
585
00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:21,941
And I was crammed up against
the wall in the very back.
586
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:25,069
And when John...
587
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,992
gave that presentation...
588
00:32:28,113 --> 00:32:30,582
...I felt like
he was speaking for all of us.
589
00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:34,044
We could come back to this
country and we could be quiet.
590
00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:35,704
We could hold our silence.
591
00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:39,254
We could not tell what
went on in Vietnam, but we feel,
592
00:32:39,374 --> 00:32:42,218
because of what threatens
this country,
593
00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:44,133
we have to speak out.
594
00:32:44,254 --> 00:32:46,052
Millions of men who have been
595
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:49,218
taught to deal
and to trade in violence
596
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,637
and who were given
the chance to die
597
00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:53,934
for the biggest nothing
in history,
598
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:57,685
men who have returned
with a sense of anger
599
00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,186
and a sense of betrayal
600
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:01,564
which no one has yet grasped.
601
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:04,324
We rationalized
destroying villages
602
00:33:04,441 --> 00:33:05,943
in order to save them.
603
00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,115
We saw America lose
her sense of morality,
604
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:11,206
as she accepted very coolly
a My Lai
605
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:13,701
and refused to give up
the image of American soldiers
606
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:16,419
that hand out chocolate bars
and chewing gum.
607
00:33:16,578 --> 00:33:19,081
We learnt the meaning
of free-fire zones,
608
00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,716
shoot anything that moves,
609
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:23,961
and we watched while America
placed a cheapness
610
00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:26,258
on the lives of Orientals.
611
00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:30,259
We watched the United States'
falsification of body counts...
612
00:33:30,383 --> 00:33:33,762
in fact, the glorification
of body counts.
613
00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:36,432
We watched
while men charged up hills
614
00:33:36,598 --> 00:33:39,693
because a general said
that hill has to be taken.
615
00:33:39,809 --> 00:33:42,528
And after losing one platoon
or two platoons,
616
00:33:42,646 --> 00:33:43,989
they marched away
617
00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:45,982
to leave the hill
for the reoccupation
618
00:33:46,107 --> 00:33:48,951
of the North Vietnamese.
619
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:51,613
And we are asking Americans
to think about that.
620
00:33:51,780 --> 00:33:53,908
Because how do you ask a man
621
00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:56,751
to be the last man to die
in Vietnam?
622
00:33:56,868 --> 00:34:01,419
How do you ask a man to be the
last man to die for a mistake?
623
00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:04,544
And so, when, 30 years from now,
624
00:34:04,668 --> 00:34:07,342
our brothers go down the street
without a leg,
625
00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,011
without an arm or a face,
626
00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:12,759
and small boys ask why,
627
00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:15,603
we will be able to say "Vietnam"
628
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:19,270
and not mean
a filthy, obscene memory
629
00:34:19,391 --> 00:34:24,648
but mean instead the place
where America finally turned
630
00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:29,489
and where soldiers like us
helped it in the turning.
631
00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,327
Thank you.
632
00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:40,746
I thought, "I have never heard
633
00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:43,749
"so... such an incredible speech
634
00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:46,296
that says exactly what
I'm feeling."
635
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:49,797
You know?
It was extraordinary.
636
00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:52,265
Extraordinary.
637
00:34:52,382 --> 00:34:55,932
But some veterans
remembered a different part
638
00:34:56,052 --> 00:34:57,850
of Kerry's testimony,
639
00:34:58,013 --> 00:35:01,517
testimony in which he repeated
accounts of atrocities
640
00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:05,438
he had heard
from other American veterans.
641
00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:08,691
They told the stories of times
642
00:35:08,857 --> 00:35:13,784
that they had personally raped,
cut off ears, cut off heads,
643
00:35:13,903 --> 00:35:17,578
taped wires from portable
telephones to human genitals
644
00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:19,372
and turned up the power,
645
00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:22,879
cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
646
00:35:22,996 --> 00:35:25,545
randomly shot at civilians,
647
00:35:25,665 --> 00:35:29,886
razed villages in fashion
reminiscent of Genghis Khan...
648
00:35:30,003 --> 00:35:32,381
What I saw in Vietnam
was not the soldier
649
00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:34,390
that Mr. Kerry
or his colleagues
650
00:35:34,549 --> 00:35:36,551
were describing at that time.
651
00:35:36,676 --> 00:35:39,054
There was
no widespread atrocity.
652
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:40,820
There was...
there were a couple of units
653
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:43,358
that went right off the rails,
and we can talk about that.
654
00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:46,149
But they were not
out-of-control animals,
655
00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:48,271
which was the way
they were portrayed.
656
00:35:48,396 --> 00:35:51,946
And what was even worse was
they were alluding to the fact
657
00:35:52,067 --> 00:35:53,364
that you would take
ordinary kids
658
00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:55,954
and turn them
into these savages,
659
00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:57,573
war criminals, and the...
660
00:35:57,697 --> 00:35:59,040
that the military
was doing that.
661
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,626
And it didn't.
Didn't happen that way.
662
00:36:01,743 --> 00:36:04,087
I'm still very angry about that.
663
00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:06,043
# War, children #
664
00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:07,586
The next day,
665
00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:10,836
700 Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
666
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,088
gathered at the Capitol.
667
00:36:13,254 --> 00:36:16,098
We originally intended
to put our medals in a body bag
668
00:36:16,257 --> 00:36:19,101
and have them delivered
to Congress.
669
00:36:19,219 --> 00:36:22,473
But the Nixon
administration erected
670
00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:28,104
this big wire and wood fence
on the steps of our Capitol
671
00:36:28,228 --> 00:36:31,778
to keep us out.
672
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:33,775
To keep out
the young men and women
673
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,449
who were fighting that war.
674
00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:38,913
And all that did was piss us off
675
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:42,910
and give us
the greatest photo opportunity
676
00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:45,753
that we could ever have.
677
00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,014
- Silver Star.
- Purple Heart.
678
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:49,132
Bronze Star.
679
00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:51,102
Cross of Gallantry.
Distinguished Flying Cross.
680
00:36:51,126 --> 00:36:52,469
And everything else!
681
00:36:52,585 --> 00:36:54,355
I don't want
these fucking medals, man!
682
00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,599
The Silver Star, the third
highest medal in the country,
683
00:36:57,716 --> 00:36:59,184
it doesn't mean anything!
684
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:01,519
Bob Smeal died for these medals!
685
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,059
Lieutenant Panamaroff died
so I got a medal!
686
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:06,478
Sergeant Johns died
so I got a medal!
687
00:37:06,641 --> 00:37:08,484
I got a Silver Star,
a Purple Heart,
688
00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:10,896
Army Commendation Medal,
eight Air Medals,
689
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:12,363
National Defense,
690
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,624
and the rest of this garbage!
691
00:37:13,648 --> 00:37:15,400
It doesn't mean a thing!
692
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:20,576
# Mm, the flood is threatening #
693
00:37:20,697 --> 00:37:22,119
# My very life #
694
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,334
Throwing my medals
back was probably harder
695
00:37:24,451 --> 00:37:25,703
than going to the war.
696
00:37:25,827 --> 00:37:28,376
Was actually harder than going
and serving in Vietnam.
697
00:37:28,496 --> 00:37:32,922
# Or I'm gonna fade away #
698
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:35,521
If this medal is so
important, let's make it important.
699
00:37:35,545 --> 00:37:37,172
Here it is.
You can have it back.
700
00:37:37,297 --> 00:37:39,299
End the war in Vietnam.
701
00:37:39,424 --> 00:37:40,926
What else is there?
702
00:37:41,050 --> 00:37:42,302
I... There was nothing else.
703
00:37:42,427 --> 00:37:43,946
I wouldn't put em on my wall
for my son.
704
00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:46,098
I never want... that was
the last thing in the world
705
00:37:46,222 --> 00:37:48,816
I would ever want my son
to revere.
706
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:54,068
It was a
difficult decision for me.
707
00:37:54,189 --> 00:37:59,070
I did it out
of a disrespectful loyalty.
708
00:37:59,194 --> 00:38:03,040
I was proud
of my military service.
709
00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:05,371
And I wanted to say,
"You know, I don't think
710
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:08,207
you guys know that much,"
the American military.
711
00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:11,332
"You know,
I think you should think again
712
00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:12,799
"about this enterprise.
713
00:38:12,916 --> 00:38:15,260
And here you go, pal."
714
00:38:15,376 --> 00:38:17,128
Tim Bagwell
from Sacramento, California,
715
00:38:17,253 --> 00:38:20,132
still on active duty,
and I say get the hell out.
716
00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:35,905
When we threw our medals away,
717
00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:37,490
that got their attention,
718
00:38:37,607 --> 00:38:40,156
because America values
those things.
719
00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:41,573
So do we.
720
00:38:41,736 --> 00:38:43,989
That's why it was so important.
721
00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:47,117
The police had
been ordered not to arrest
722
00:38:47,242 --> 00:38:49,745
any of the veterans, because,
723
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:52,338
Pat Buchanan,
a White House aide, wrote,
724
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:55,800
they were "being received in
a far more sympathetic fashion
725
00:38:55,917 --> 00:38:58,011
"than other demonstrators.
726
00:38:58,127 --> 00:39:01,677
The 'crazies' will be in town
soon enough," he continued,
727
00:39:01,798 --> 00:39:03,846
"and if we want a confrontation,
728
00:39:03,967 --> 00:39:05,935
let's have it with them."
729
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:08,305
He was right.
730
00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:10,648
In the days
immediately following
731
00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,108
the veterans' protest,
732
00:39:12,267 --> 00:39:14,190
other groups
of antiwar activists
733
00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:17,314
moved into the capital.
734
00:39:17,438 --> 00:39:21,113
The most radical called itself
the May Day Tribe
735
00:39:21,234 --> 00:39:24,158
and threatened
to close the city down.
736
00:39:24,279 --> 00:39:27,499
For three days,
they staged hit-and-run raids
737
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:29,367
throughout Washington...
738
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,915
blocking bridges
and traffic circles,
739
00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:33,333
smashing windows,
740
00:39:33,454 --> 00:39:35,832
hurling rocks, burning cars.
741
00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:38,435
If Richard Nixon thought
742
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:41,713
that this week was something,
wait until the next round.
743
00:39:41,838 --> 00:39:44,387
This is only a warm-up
of what is going to come.
744
00:39:44,507 --> 00:39:47,226
This is going to continue
until the war ends.
745
00:39:47,343 --> 00:39:49,562
Some 12,000 were arrested...
746
00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:52,148
7,000 on a single day,
747
00:39:52,265 --> 00:39:55,690
the largest number of arrests
in 24 hours
748
00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,188
in United States history.
749
00:39:58,313 --> 00:40:01,658
I realized,
coming away from Washington,
750
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,069
that our whole strategy
was wrong
751
00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:07,823
and that we were becoming
more and more militant
752
00:40:07,947 --> 00:40:10,666
at a time
when more and more Americans
753
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,293
were opposing the war
754
00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,833
but were turned off
by our militancy.
755
00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:17,833
So we were doing
exactly the wrong thing.
756
00:40:17,957 --> 00:40:21,382
The White House
was initially pleased.
757
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:24,597
Public sympathy for the veterans
was largely forgotten
758
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,639
in the face of days of battle
in the streets.
759
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,764
Polls showed
that most Americans approved
760
00:40:31,888 --> 00:40:33,686
of the arrests.
761
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:39,521
But those same polls also showed
762
00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:42,361
that most Americans
no longer believed
763
00:40:42,482 --> 00:40:46,203
they were being told the truth
about Vietnam.
764
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:53,873
When I got home, my...
so my dad's pissed off.
765
00:40:54,035 --> 00:40:57,710
'Cause he's-he's
a true believer, you know?
766
00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:01,460
He was already receiving threats
767
00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:04,713
because I'd thrown away
their medals.
768
00:41:06,506 --> 00:41:09,430
And that pissed my dad off then.
769
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:12,178
And you would've thought
I hadn't done anything wrong.
770
00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:15,227
Because then somebody outside
the family was messing with me.
771
00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:17,392
And he said, "Son, don't worry.
772
00:41:17,517 --> 00:41:19,394
"Those were your medals.
You paid for 'em.
773
00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:20,871
"You can do anything
you want with 'em.
774
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:22,943
"They want to jack with us,
they'll face us both.
775
00:41:23,064 --> 00:41:24,691
We'll-we'll take 'em on
in the driveway."
776
00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:27,444
You know?
"Yo, Dad."
777
00:41:34,951 --> 00:41:37,830
On June 12, 1971,
778
00:41:37,954 --> 00:41:40,173
Richard Nixon's daughter,
Tricia,
779
00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:44,886
married Edward Cox
in the White House Rose Garden.
780
00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:48,598
The country watched it all
on television.
781
00:41:52,051 --> 00:41:55,180
The wedding was still news
the next day.
782
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:58,774
But another story on the front
page of the New York Times
783
00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:01,607
caught
the president's attention.
784
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,818
The article, by Neil Sheehan,
785
00:42:04,939 --> 00:42:07,613
was the first report
of what came to be called
786
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:09,493
the Pentagon Papers,
787
00:42:09,610 --> 00:42:13,114
7,000 pages
of highly classified documents
788
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,162
and historical narrative,
789
00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:17,502
compiled secretly at the orders
790
00:42:17,618 --> 00:42:21,373
of former Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara.
791
00:42:21,497 --> 00:42:24,717
He had hoped a study
of the decision-making process
792
00:42:24,834 --> 00:42:28,304
that had led the United States
to become so deeply involved
793
00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:31,637
in Vietnam would help
future policymakers
794
00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:34,348
avoid similar errors.
795
00:42:36,012 --> 00:42:38,014
I thought I knew a great deal.
796
00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:40,141
I thought I knew most
of what was worth knowing
797
00:42:40,308 --> 00:42:41,480
about the war.
798
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:45,363
And, suddenly, I didn't.
799
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,450
It wasn't a reporter's version
of an event.
800
00:42:48,566 --> 00:42:50,364
It was their version
of an event.
801
00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:52,704
It was their telegrams,
their orders,
802
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:54,663
their memoranda, eh cetera.
803
00:43:09,087 --> 00:43:12,182
The documents proved
that American presidents
804
00:43:12,298 --> 00:43:14,016
and their closest advisors
805
00:43:14,175 --> 00:43:16,098
had steered the United States
806
00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:18,893
toward deeper involvement
in Vietnam,
807
00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:23,393
despite their own grave doubts
about the chances for victory.
808
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,787
They had known
that the Saigon government
809
00:43:34,904 --> 00:43:37,282
was weak and incompetent...
810
00:43:44,789 --> 00:43:48,714
...that the enemy was
disciplined and resilient...
811
00:43:54,841 --> 00:43:58,562
...and that the bombing
of the North wasn't working.
812
00:44:06,102 --> 00:44:10,152
Yet, they had routinely lied
about all these things
813
00:44:10,273 --> 00:44:12,742
to Congress
and the American people.
814
00:44:38,759 --> 00:44:41,638
I certainly don't endorse
815
00:44:41,762 --> 00:44:46,734
anyone releasing top-secret
material to the press.
816
00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:52,361
Um, on the other hand, uh...
817
00:44:52,481 --> 00:44:55,610
I was very concerned
818
00:44:55,735 --> 00:44:58,113
about the fact that the, uh,
819
00:44:58,279 --> 00:45:03,456
government was not being up
front with the American people
820
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:07,206
in certain respects
with the Vietnam War.
821
00:45:07,330 --> 00:45:10,459
Two copies of the
report had been stored
822
00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:13,845
at the RAND Corporation,
a California think tank,
823
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:15,929
where Daniel Ellsberg,
824
00:45:16,047 --> 00:45:20,723
one of the study's 36 authors,
worked as an analyst.
825
00:45:20,843 --> 00:45:23,813
Ellsberg had once
supported the war.
826
00:45:23,930 --> 00:45:25,807
He'd served in the Pentagon,
827
00:45:25,932 --> 00:45:28,310
and spent two years working
for the State Department
828
00:45:28,434 --> 00:45:30,528
in Vietnam.
829
00:45:30,645 --> 00:45:35,025
But he had come to see the war
as profoundly immoral,
830
00:45:35,149 --> 00:45:37,652
and hoped
that if Americans understood
831
00:45:37,777 --> 00:45:42,078
how administration after
administration had misled them
832
00:45:42,198 --> 00:45:44,701
about what was being
done in their name,
833
00:45:44,825 --> 00:45:47,328
they might help
bring it to an end.
834
00:45:47,495 --> 00:45:51,170
He and Anthony Russo,
another RAND employee,
835
00:45:51,332 --> 00:45:54,677
secretly copied
most of the report.
836
00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:58,931
Ellsberg offered it to three
leading antiwar senators,
837
00:45:59,048 --> 00:46:02,848
hoping they would be willing
to reveal its contents.
838
00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:05,604
None dared do it.
839
00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:09,191
Meanwhile, Neil Sheehan
of the New York Times,
840
00:46:09,350 --> 00:46:13,355
who had been reporting
on Vietnam since 1962,
841
00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:17,154
and had already secretly read
some of the documents,
842
00:46:17,275 --> 00:46:21,200
asked Ellsberg
to show him the whole report.
843
00:46:21,362 --> 00:46:24,366
At that point, I was
very passionate about the war.
844
00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:27,869
I felt that it was really wrong,
845
00:46:28,035 --> 00:46:29,878
because we were getting
a lot of Americans
846
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:32,210
and a lot of Vietnamese killed
for no purpose.
847
00:46:32,373 --> 00:46:36,048
We were gonna lose this war.
848
00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:40,386
And so I vowed to myself
when I saw this material
849
00:46:40,506 --> 00:46:42,224
that this is never gonna go back
850
00:46:42,383 --> 00:46:43,885
into a government safe again.
851
00:46:44,051 --> 00:46:45,724
The American public
had paid for it
852
00:46:45,886 --> 00:46:48,514
with the lives of their sons
and with their treasure,
853
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,312
and it's gonna be published.
854
00:46:50,433 --> 00:46:51,980
That piece in the Times
855
00:46:52,101 --> 00:46:53,273
is, of course,
856
00:46:53,394 --> 00:46:56,443
a massive security leak
from the Pentagon, you know.
857
00:46:56,564 --> 00:46:58,237
Yeah.
858
00:46:58,399 --> 00:47:01,323
It all relates, of course,
to everything up until we came in.
859
00:47:01,444 --> 00:47:03,071
Yeah.
860
00:47:03,195 --> 00:47:05,573
And it's, uh, it's ver...
it's hard on Johnson,
861
00:47:05,740 --> 00:47:09,040
it's hard on Kennedy,
it's hard on Lodge.
862
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,539
At first, Nixon
was not unduly disturbed
863
00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:14,961
by the newspaper's revelations.
864
00:47:15,082 --> 00:47:18,586
They reflected badly
on his Democratic predecessors,
865
00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:21,097
not on him.
866
00:47:21,213 --> 00:47:24,387
But Henry Kissinger
quickly convinced Nixon
867
00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:26,260
that if the Times were permitted
868
00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:30,102
to reveal the classified secrets
of earlier presidents,
869
00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:35,236
it was only a matter of time
until someone leaked his own.
870
00:47:35,353 --> 00:47:39,199
The Justice Department obtained
a temporary court order
871
00:47:39,315 --> 00:47:42,865
forbidding the Times from
publishing further installments
872
00:47:42,985 --> 00:47:46,080
on the grounds
of national security.
873
00:47:46,197 --> 00:47:49,872
But soon, both the Boston Globe
874
00:47:49,992 --> 00:47:53,838
and the Washington Post were
also printing excerpts.
875
00:47:55,498 --> 00:47:58,001
On June 30, 1971,
876
00:47:58,125 --> 00:48:00,719
the United States Supreme Court,
877
00:48:00,836 --> 00:48:02,964
citing the First Amendment,
878
00:48:03,130 --> 00:48:06,634
ruled six to three
that the Times had the right
879
00:48:06,801 --> 00:48:10,271
to publish the stolen documents.
880
00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:12,482
And I went
down into the basement
881
00:48:12,598 --> 00:48:14,851
to wait for the presses
to start to roll,
882
00:48:14,975 --> 00:48:17,569
and they had these huge
round reams of paper.
883
00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:20,457
And, finally,
the presses started to roll.
884
00:48:20,481 --> 00:48:24,907
And it was just an exquisite
moment of vindication
885
00:48:25,027 --> 00:48:27,155
of the freedom
of the press in this country
886
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:28,826
and how important it is.
887
00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:33,661
That changed
888
00:48:33,828 --> 00:48:35,671
our whole attitude
toward government.
889
00:48:35,830 --> 00:48:38,174
Up until then,
the president wouldn't lie.
890
00:48:38,290 --> 00:48:40,384
After then, they always lie.
891
00:48:40,501 --> 00:48:42,970
The clay the
presses began to roll again,
892
00:48:43,087 --> 00:48:46,387
Nixon ordered
attorney general John Mitchell
893
00:48:46,507 --> 00:48:50,057
to try to discredit
Daniel Ellsberg, who had just
894
00:48:50,177 --> 00:48:52,350
been indicted
by a federal grand jury
895
00:48:52,513 --> 00:48:54,641
for theft and conspiracy
896
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:58,690
under the Espionage Act of 1917.
897
00:49:33,637 --> 00:49:37,813
Nixon feared Ellsberg
possessed more classified documents
898
00:49:37,933 --> 00:49:40,356
that would show
that he himself had lied
899
00:49:40,478 --> 00:49:44,233
about the secret bombing
of Cambodia and Laos,
900
00:49:44,356 --> 00:49:47,075
and he believed
that Ellsberg had had help
901
00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:50,618
and wanted to know the names
of his co-conspirators.
902
00:49:50,738 --> 00:49:53,082
The president created a private,
903
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:56,453
clandestine investigative unit
within the White House.
904
00:49:56,577 --> 00:49:59,456
It came to be called
"The Plumbers."
905
00:49:59,580 --> 00:50:03,084
John Ehrlichman,
one of Nixon's closest aides,
906
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,595
eventually ordered them
to burglarize the office
907
00:50:06,712 --> 00:50:09,591
of Ellsberg's
Los Angeles psychiatrist
908
00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:11,680
in search of material
909
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,430
with which he could be
blackmailed into silence.
910
00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:19,730
Nixon may have privately feared
something else as well.
911
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:22,603
He was told that the safe
at another think tank,
912
00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:26,365
the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C.,
913
00:50:26,482 --> 00:50:30,532
contained files that might
reveal the secret role
914
00:50:30,653 --> 00:50:34,499
his campaign had played
in torpedoing the peace talks
915
00:50:34,615 --> 00:50:37,789
on the eve of his election
three years earlier,
916
00:50:37,952 --> 00:50:42,503
which President Johnson
had then considered treason.
917
00:50:42,623 --> 00:50:46,378
Nixon wanted his "plumbers"
to break into Brookings,
918
00:50:46,502 --> 00:50:50,803
crack the safe,
and remove the files.
919
00:50:50,965 --> 00:50:53,138
None of it was legal.
920
00:50:53,259 --> 00:50:56,354
Nixon did not care.
921
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:31,297
The Brookings break-in
would never take place.
922
00:51:31,422 --> 00:51:33,845
The burglars would be unable
923
00:51:34,008 --> 00:51:37,057
to find Ellsberg's file
in his doctor's office.
924
00:51:37,177 --> 00:51:40,602
But Nixon's obsession
with his enemies
925
00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:44,444
would be the undoing
of his presidency.
926
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,375
Once a month, I have a dream
927
00:52:07,499 --> 00:52:12,005
that I'm... I'm back...
I'm back in basic training.
928
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:13,551
But I'm the age I am now,
929
00:52:13,672 --> 00:52:15,845
which is way too old
to be in the military.
930
00:52:15,966 --> 00:52:18,310
But, you know,
somehow I've gotten a waiver,
931
00:52:18,427 --> 00:52:20,020
and I'm going
through all the training,
932
00:52:20,137 --> 00:52:22,185
and there's some major war
going on.
933
00:52:22,306 --> 00:52:25,401
And I'm going to get there,
and I'm going to be a hero
934
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:30,816
and vindicate myself
and be taken back by my country.
935
00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:37,121
Jack Todd had crossed
into Canada in early 1970,
936
00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:38,955
rather than take part
937
00:52:39,073 --> 00:52:41,701
in what he believed
to be a dishonorable war.
938
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:47,919
He found himself living
in a strange underground world
939
00:52:48,082 --> 00:52:50,084
of deserters and draft evaders
940
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:54,505
and the disaffected Canadians
who gathered around them.
941
00:52:54,630 --> 00:52:58,680
In 1971,
he was living in Montreal,
942
00:52:58,801 --> 00:53:00,803
restless and often depressed,
943
00:53:00,928 --> 00:53:04,432
increasingly alienated
from his country,
944
00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:07,693
but also anxious always
for news from home,
945
00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:10,609
and eager to know
how his boyhood friends
946
00:53:10,729 --> 00:53:13,653
from Scottsbluff, Nebraska,
were doing.
947
00:53:13,774 --> 00:53:16,368
One, named Ron Bales,
948
00:53:16,485 --> 00:53:19,534
had lived just down the street.
949
00:53:19,655 --> 00:53:24,411
And, uh...
my mother sent me a letter, um,
950
00:53:24,535 --> 00:53:26,663
and I remember taking
the clipping out of it.
951
00:53:26,787 --> 00:53:30,291
I had walked up to Mount Royal
in Montreal to read the letter.
952
00:53:30,416 --> 00:53:33,260
And the clipping was from
the Scottsbluff Star-Herald,
953
00:53:33,377 --> 00:53:36,130
and it was about Ron
being killed in Vietnam.
954
00:53:39,383 --> 00:53:42,307
Why?
Why?
955
00:53:42,469 --> 00:53:46,474
It was long after we knew
how wrong the war was,
956
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,645
and guys like Ron were
still dying, you know.
957
00:53:52,521 --> 00:53:54,444
Why?
958
00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:58,072
The government today
restricted the use
959
00:53:58,193 --> 00:54:00,662
of the weed killer 2,4,5-T
on the ground
960
00:54:00,821 --> 00:54:02,619
that the chemical has caused
birth defects
961
00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:05,243
in some laboratory animals.
962
00:54:07,161 --> 00:54:11,837
Since 1962, American
and South Vietnamese forces
963
00:54:11,999 --> 00:54:15,253
had sprayed some 2O million
gallons of herbicides
964
00:54:15,377 --> 00:54:19,598
over roughly one quarter
of South Vietnam.
965
00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:22,844
The idea had been
to reduce casualties
966
00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:26,435
by clearing areas
around U.S. installations,
967
00:54:26,555 --> 00:54:30,731
and to deny the enemy crops
and forest cover.
968
00:54:30,851 --> 00:54:34,901
The most frequently used
defoliant was Agent Orange,
969
00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:37,901
which contained 2,4,5-T.
970
00:54:38,025 --> 00:54:40,073
When environmentalists convinced
971
00:54:40,194 --> 00:54:43,243
the Nixon administration
to ban the weed killer
972
00:54:43,363 --> 00:54:44,990
on American farms,
973
00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:47,868
the Pentagon
had reluctantly agreed
974
00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:51,665
to stop using Agent Orange
in Vietnam.
975
00:54:51,789 --> 00:54:56,511
The ecological damage defoliants
did was obvious.
976
00:54:56,627 --> 00:55:00,598
The damage done to soldiers
and civilians
977
00:55:00,714 --> 00:55:04,844
would be the subject
of angry debate for decades.
978
00:55:11,183 --> 00:55:13,811
Opposition
to the Saigon government
979
00:55:13,936 --> 00:55:16,234
is not just Viet Cong.
980
00:55:16,396 --> 00:55:17,864
How many governments
981
00:55:17,981 --> 00:55:20,951
actually care
for the Vietnamese people?
982
00:55:21,068 --> 00:55:24,823
The student antiwar,
anti-American movement
983
00:55:24,947 --> 00:55:27,370
is larger than its small
demonstrations indicate.
984
00:55:27,491 --> 00:55:30,244
You don't need military aid...
985
00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:34,707
...to promote democracy
in Vietnam.
986
00:55:34,832 --> 00:55:38,086
To return
to the Vietnamese people
987
00:55:38,210 --> 00:55:40,508
their right that...
988
00:55:40,629 --> 00:55:42,757
their right to speak freely.
989
00:55:42,923 --> 00:55:45,597
You don't need even one penny.
990
00:55:45,759 --> 00:55:48,808
You don't need
to consult the White House,
991
00:55:48,929 --> 00:55:51,853
you don't need to care
about the American media,
992
00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:54,443
you don't need French,
you don't need Chinese,
993
00:55:54,601 --> 00:55:56,103
you don't need Americans.
994
00:55:56,270 --> 00:56:00,696
If you really care for Vietnam
then you turn back inside.
995
00:56:00,816 --> 00:56:04,286
South Vietnamese
president Nguyen Van Thieu
996
00:56:04,403 --> 00:56:06,326
was campaigning for reelection.
997
00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:08,790
The Americans had insisted on it
998
00:56:08,907 --> 00:56:11,535
and urged him
not to rig the race,
999
00:56:11,660 --> 00:56:14,584
for fear it would
resemble too closely
1000
00:56:14,705 --> 00:56:17,128
the fraudulent
communist "elections"
1001
00:56:17,249 --> 00:56:20,628
routinely denounced
by the United States.
1002
00:56:20,752 --> 00:56:22,299
But Thieu made sure
1003
00:56:22,421 --> 00:56:25,300
no serious candidates
ran against him,
1004
00:56:25,424 --> 00:56:29,145
and claimed to have won
94% of the vote.
1005
00:56:29,303 --> 00:56:32,978
It became known
as "the one-man election,"
1006
00:56:33,140 --> 00:56:34,266
and added to the ranks
1007
00:56:34,391 --> 00:56:37,361
of what was called
the "Third Force":
1008
00:56:37,477 --> 00:56:41,232
South Vietnamese hoping
for a negotiated settlement
1009
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:43,484
and an end to the bloodshed.
1010
00:57:00,334 --> 00:57:02,382
By the middle of 1971,
1011
00:57:02,502 --> 00:57:05,426
Nixon and Kissinger
were looking for a way
1012
00:57:05,547 --> 00:57:08,926
to get all U.S. troops
out of Vietnam
1013
00:57:09,051 --> 00:57:11,520
before his
re-election campaign began
1014
00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:13,521
the following year,
1015
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,978
but to do so without causing
1016
00:57:16,099 --> 00:57:19,023
Saigon to fall too soon.
1017
00:57:55,973 --> 00:57:58,351
At the secret talks in Paris,
1018
00:57:58,475 --> 00:58:01,445
Kissinger had offered his
North Vietnamese counterpart,
1019
00:58:01,561 --> 00:58:04,735
Le Duc Tho, the most significant
concessions
1020
00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:07,822
the United States had yet made:
1021
00:58:07,943 --> 00:58:11,447
North Vietnam could
keep its troops in the South-
1022
00:58:11,571 --> 00:58:13,448
tens of thousands of them.
1023
00:58:13,573 --> 00:58:17,953
And in exchange for the release
of American prisoners of war,
1024
00:58:18,078 --> 00:58:19,671
all American troops
1025
00:58:19,788 --> 00:58:23,042
would be withdrawn
within seven months.
1026
00:58:25,252 --> 00:58:28,597
Le Duc Tho countered
with a new offer of his own:
1027
00:58:28,755 --> 00:58:30,928
Hanoi would
release the prisoners
1028
00:58:31,049 --> 00:58:34,804
simultaneously with
the departure of U.S. forces.
1029
00:58:34,928 --> 00:58:38,102
But he still insisted
that Washington remove
1030
00:58:38,223 --> 00:58:41,648
President Thieu from power.
1031
00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:44,567
Kissinger was encouraged
that the North Vietnamese
1032
00:58:44,688 --> 00:58:48,488
seemed, for the first time,
to be negotiating seriously.
1033
00:58:48,608 --> 00:58:53,364
He could almost "taste peace,"
he told a friend.
1034
00:58:53,488 --> 00:58:55,035
Thieu knew nothing
1035
00:58:55,157 --> 00:58:58,286
about the new American
concessions to Hanoi.
1036
00:58:58,410 --> 00:59:02,165
He was worried
about something else.
1037
00:59:05,333 --> 00:59:07,293
NBC News interrupts
regular programming
1038
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:09,129
to bring you a special report.
1039
00:59:09,296 --> 00:59:11,719
The announcement I shall
now read is being issued
1040
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,437
simultaneously in Peking
and in the United States.
1041
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:18,226
Richard Nixon,
1042
00:59:18,346 --> 00:59:21,441
famous for the ferocity
of his anticommunism,
1043
00:59:21,558 --> 00:59:24,061
astonished the world
by announcing
1044
00:59:24,186 --> 00:59:27,690
that he was planning to restore
relations with China
1045
00:59:27,814 --> 00:59:31,159
that had been severed
for more than two decades.
1046
00:59:31,318 --> 00:59:34,913
The United States
had gone to war in Vietnam
1047
00:59:35,030 --> 00:59:38,034
in part to block
Chinese expansionism.
1048
00:59:38,158 --> 00:59:42,288
What would Nixon's visit mean
for Thieu's future
1049
00:59:42,412 --> 00:59:44,631
or for that of his country?
1050
00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:47,877
Thieu was afraid he knew.
1051
00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:50,675
"America has been
looking for a new mistress,"
1052
00:59:50,796 --> 00:59:52,048
he told an aide,
1053
00:59:52,172 --> 00:59:54,891
"and now Nixon
has discovered China.
1054
00:59:55,008 --> 00:59:58,729
"He does not want to have
the old mistress around.
1055
00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:02,566
Vietnam has become
old and ugly."
1056
01:00:14,236 --> 01:00:17,831
I believe it was
in the fall of 1971.
1057
01:00:20,450 --> 01:00:24,546
And they called us out
and they hung a bed sheet
1058
01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:29,335
and they had a projector
and they showed us
1059
01:00:29,459 --> 01:00:32,884
color and black and white movies
1060
01:00:33,046 --> 01:00:36,300
of these protests in Washington.
1061
01:00:41,138 --> 01:00:43,061
And in the same film
1062
01:00:43,181 --> 01:00:45,400
it showed John Kerry.
1063
01:00:45,517 --> 01:00:47,611
And I remember
he was very articulate,
1064
01:00:47,727 --> 01:00:49,900
very, very well spoken,
1065
01:00:50,021 --> 01:00:52,945
very fluent
1066
01:00:53,066 --> 01:00:55,660
and a good spokesman
1067
01:00:55,777 --> 01:00:57,154
for his cause.
1068
01:00:57,279 --> 01:00:59,373
Someone has to die
so that President Nixon
1069
01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:01,992
won't be...
and these are his words...
1070
01:01:02,117 --> 01:01:05,838
"the first president
to lose a war."
1071
01:01:05,954 --> 01:01:07,080
And I remember very well,
1072
01:01:07,247 --> 01:01:09,750
he's sitting
with his fatigue jacket
1073
01:01:09,875 --> 01:01:11,422
and long hair
1074
01:01:11,585 --> 01:01:13,587
and testifying about atrocities
1075
01:01:13,753 --> 01:01:15,630
and war crimes that...
1076
01:01:15,755 --> 01:01:17,757
we perpetrated.
1077
01:01:17,883 --> 01:01:20,807
Cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
1078
01:01:20,927 --> 01:01:23,180
randomly shot at civilians...
1079
01:01:23,305 --> 01:01:25,273
But I was
shocked by what he said.
1080
01:01:25,390 --> 01:01:27,108
And I didn't believe it.
1081
01:01:27,225 --> 01:01:30,570
I didn't believe it at all.
1082
01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:35,199
I mean, I'm sophisticated
to know, and I knew then,
1083
01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:37,786
that bad things happen in war
and they happen on both sides,
1084
01:01:37,944 --> 01:01:41,539
and I had seen the evidence
of the other side too, also.
1085
01:01:41,656 --> 01:01:42,953
And I knew it.
1086
01:01:43,074 --> 01:01:45,293
And... but still,
to hear the testimony
1087
01:01:45,452 --> 01:01:50,379
and to hear it used as a weapon
1088
01:01:50,498 --> 01:01:53,001
against our further prosecution
of this war
1089
01:01:53,126 --> 01:01:57,973
that we were suffering for
was very powerful indeed.
1090
01:01:58,089 --> 01:02:00,683
A few months later
1091
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,895
Kushner got
an even bigger shock.
1092
01:02:04,012 --> 01:02:06,310
My son has no father.
1093
01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:09,981
This Christmas Day we celebrate
the birth of a son to Mary
1094
01:02:10,143 --> 01:02:12,646
and this Christmas Day
some other mother's son
1095
01:02:12,812 --> 01:02:15,031
will die in Vietnam.
1096
01:02:15,148 --> 01:02:17,697
That death takes away
all that was taught to us
1097
01:02:17,817 --> 01:02:20,366
by Christ's birth.
1098
01:02:20,487 --> 01:02:22,785
The whole time
I was in the South
1099
01:02:22,906 --> 01:02:25,204
I never got one letter,
one bit of information.
1100
01:02:25,325 --> 01:02:27,327
When I got to North Vietnam
I got no letter,
1101
01:02:27,494 --> 01:02:29,872
no bit of information, nothing.
1102
01:02:29,996 --> 01:02:35,628
Then, I think it may have been
Christmas of '71,
1103
01:02:35,752 --> 01:02:40,178
my wife wrote an op-ed piece
in the New York Times.
1104
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:43,765
She had become
politically active.
1105
01:02:43,885 --> 01:02:46,183
The families of POWs
1106
01:02:46,304 --> 01:02:49,934
overwhelmingly supported
the Nixon administration.
1107
01:02:50,058 --> 01:02:52,937
Valerie Kushner did not,
1108
01:02:53,061 --> 01:02:54,688
and the North Vietnamese
were quick
1109
01:02:54,813 --> 01:02:58,033
to exploit her antiwar views.
1110
01:02:58,149 --> 01:02:59,947
They broadcast a message
1111
01:03:00,068 --> 01:03:02,912
they had permitted her husband
to record for her.
1112
01:03:03,029 --> 01:03:05,703
It was the first time
she had heard his voice
1113
01:03:05,865 --> 01:03:07,742
in four years.
1114
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,873
I received the glasses, Val,
1115
01:03:12,998 --> 01:03:15,672
and my eyes
have improved considerably.
1116
01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:18,386
Please let me know
about Brother John.
1117
01:03:18,545 --> 01:03:20,968
He or she is almost four now,
1118
01:03:21,089 --> 01:03:23,638
and he or she is old enough
to understand
1119
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:27,183
where Daddy is
and that I love him or her
1120
01:03:27,304 --> 01:03:30,558
immeasurably
despite our never meeting.
1121
01:03:30,682 --> 01:03:34,277
I calculate that T-Bird
is now in second grade,
1122
01:03:34,394 --> 01:03:36,396
and I know she is doing well.
1123
01:03:36,563 --> 01:03:38,315
She is a grown-up lady now
1124
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:42,240
and I hope you have plans for
piano or ballet lessons soon.
1125
01:03:42,402 --> 01:03:44,905
Happy eighth birthday,
dear T-Bird,
1126
01:03:45,030 --> 01:03:46,532
and Merry Christmas.
1127
01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:48,875
When I left you
I promised to come home
1128
01:03:48,992 --> 01:03:50,494
before you were five.
1129
01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:54,339
I didn't fulfill that promise,
but when I do return,
1130
01:03:54,456 --> 01:03:57,005
I will never leave you again.
1131
01:03:57,125 --> 01:03:59,799
His optimism about the whole
situation amazes me.
1132
01:03:59,919 --> 01:04:01,216
I'm just very happy
1133
01:04:01,338 --> 01:04:03,682
that he can't see
this morning's newspaper.
1134
01:04:03,798 --> 01:04:06,768
Because I-I don't
have the same optimism
1135
01:04:06,885 --> 01:04:08,512
or the same confidence
in this government
1136
01:04:08,636 --> 01:04:11,435
that he seems to have.
1137
01:04:15,352 --> 01:04:20,825
President Nixon's visit
to China in February of 1972
1138
01:04:20,940 --> 01:04:23,443
not only alarmed
President Thieu,
1139
01:04:23,610 --> 01:04:26,454
it worried Hanoi as well.
1140
01:04:26,571 --> 01:04:29,666
The North Vietnamese
remembered how Ho Chi Minh
1141
01:04:29,783 --> 01:04:32,662
had felt betrayed in 1954
1142
01:04:32,786 --> 01:04:35,380
when Moscow and Beijing
had compelled them
1143
01:04:35,497 --> 01:04:39,627
to sign the Geneva Accords,
dividing Vietnam in two.
1144
01:04:39,751 --> 01:04:42,800
Now, they were concerned
that warmer relations
1145
01:04:42,962 --> 01:04:45,181
between the United States
and China
1146
01:04:45,298 --> 01:04:49,144
might soon mean
less support from Beijing.
1147
01:04:49,302 --> 01:04:53,148
Nixon was also planning
to travel to Moscow
1148
01:04:53,264 --> 01:04:56,689
to meet with Soviet premier
Leonid Brezhnev,
1149
01:04:56,810 --> 01:04:58,608
seeking to ease tensions
1150
01:04:58,728 --> 01:05:02,449
with North Vietnam's
other communist patron.
1151
01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:07,241
Before that summit took place,
First Secretary Le Duan,
1152
01:05:07,362 --> 01:05:10,206
the man who headed
the Politburo in Hanoi,
1153
01:05:10,323 --> 01:05:13,623
decided to undertake
a new kind of offensive.
1154
01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:17,418
It would be conventional warfare
this time,
1155
01:05:17,539 --> 01:05:21,385
and on a scale
he had never before attempted.
1156
01:05:21,501 --> 01:05:24,345
Le Duan had
several goals in mind:
1157
01:05:24,462 --> 01:05:26,760
to strengthen his hand
at the peace talks
1158
01:05:26,881 --> 01:05:29,304
by altering the military balance
of power
1159
01:05:29,426 --> 01:05:30,973
in South Vietnam,
1160
01:05:31,094 --> 01:05:34,473
to show that the ARVN
could not stand on their own,
1161
01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:38,272
and to convince the Soviets
and the Chinese
1162
01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:42,239
his revolution
was still worth supporting.
1163
01:05:46,484 --> 01:05:50,364
The assault began on March 30,
1972.
1164
01:05:50,530 --> 01:05:53,909
14 North Vietnamese
infantry divisions...
1165
01:05:54,033 --> 01:05:56,661
more than 120,000 men...
1166
01:05:56,786 --> 01:05:59,289
now, for the first time,
1167
01:05:59,414 --> 01:06:03,260
supported by hundreds of
Soviet and Chinese-made tanks
1168
01:06:03,376 --> 01:06:08,428
and other armored vehicles,
attacked on three fronts:
1169
01:06:08,548 --> 01:06:12,223
across the demilitarized zone,
1170
01:06:12,343 --> 01:06:16,644
in the Central Highlands
1171
01:06:16,764 --> 01:06:21,235
and west of Saigon.
1172
01:06:21,352 --> 01:06:26,358
Americans would call it
"The Easter Offensive."
1173
01:06:26,483 --> 01:06:29,236
To the South Vietnamese,
1174
01:06:29,402 --> 01:06:32,906
it would be remembered
as "The Summer of Flames."
1175
01:06:33,072 --> 01:06:36,076
The South Vietnamese
Army knew this day was coming:
1176
01:06:36,242 --> 01:06:37,459
the day without Americans.
1177
01:06:37,577 --> 01:06:38,920
It was to be the big test,
1178
01:06:39,037 --> 01:06:40,254
both for them
1179
01:06:40,371 --> 01:06:43,250
and for President Nixon's
Vietnamization program.
1180
01:06:43,416 --> 01:06:46,295
The results in so far
are not encouraging.
1181
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:49,389
Whole battalions of
the government's third division
1182
01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:51,759
joined the refugees
on the road south.
1183
01:06:51,925 --> 01:06:55,725
They had been outnumbered,
overpowered, overwhelmed.
1184
01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:58,018
An entire ARVN regiment
1185
01:06:58,139 --> 01:07:00,312
surrendered at Camp Carroll.
1186
01:07:00,433 --> 01:07:02,106
North Vietnamese troops
1187
01:07:02,268 --> 01:07:05,067
then swiftly overran
Quang Tri Province,
1188
01:07:05,188 --> 01:07:10,115
driving tens of thousands of
terrified refugees southward.
1189
01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:13,701
They nearly cut South Vietnam
in half
1190
01:07:13,821 --> 01:07:16,540
through the Central Highlands
1191
01:07:16,658 --> 01:07:20,834
and drove toward Saigon,
hoping to seize large areas
1192
01:07:20,954 --> 01:07:23,878
along the Cambodian border.
1193
01:07:23,998 --> 01:07:26,797
It looked as if
it were going to be
1194
01:07:26,918 --> 01:07:29,546
a total defeat for the ARVN.
1195
01:07:29,671 --> 01:07:33,596
There were only 60,000
U.S. military personnel
1196
01:07:33,716 --> 01:07:35,639
left in South Vietnam,
1197
01:07:35,802 --> 01:07:38,772
and very few of them
were combat troops.
1198
01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:44,444
Suddenly, the survival of
everything Nixon and Kissinger
1199
01:07:44,561 --> 01:07:46,814
had worked for was in peril.
1200
01:07:46,980 --> 01:07:51,281
They had to do something...
and fast.
1201
01:08:13,464 --> 01:08:16,843
Nixon ordered
up Operation Linebacker...
1202
01:08:17,010 --> 01:08:19,479
massive air attacks
1203
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:20,973
on the advancing
North Vietnamese.
1204
01:08:22,807 --> 01:08:24,855
"The bastards
have never been bombed
1205
01:08:25,018 --> 01:08:27,897
"like they're going to be
this time," he said.
1206
01:08:31,649 --> 01:08:34,823
The most crucial battle
of the Easter Offensive
1207
01:08:34,944 --> 01:08:36,662
was fought at An Loc,
1208
01:08:36,779 --> 01:08:39,328
a city that commanded Route 13,
1209
01:08:39,449 --> 01:08:42,669
a paved highway
that led directly to Saigon,
1210
01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:45,038
just 60 miles away.
1211
01:08:48,041 --> 01:08:50,385
North Vietnamese artillery fire
1212
01:08:50,501 --> 01:08:52,378
and a massive infantry
and armor attack
1213
01:08:52,545 --> 01:08:54,593
drove the city's ARVN defenders
1214
01:08:54,714 --> 01:08:59,015
into an area
less than a mile square.
1215
01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:04,392
Repeated efforts to reinforce
and resupply them failed.
1216
01:09:04,515 --> 01:09:07,769
The ARVN bravely held out.
1217
01:09:07,894 --> 01:09:10,317
The number one thing we did
1218
01:09:10,438 --> 01:09:13,032
was coordinate the air strikes.
1219
01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:15,493
General Hollingsworth
went to General Abrams
1220
01:09:15,610 --> 01:09:17,704
and begged
for all the B-52s he could get,
1221
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,663
and on the 10th and 11th of May,
1222
01:09:19,781 --> 01:09:25,459
he planned a B-52 strike
every 50 minutes for 24 hours.
1223
01:09:36,172 --> 01:09:37,389
In the end,
1224
01:09:37,507 --> 01:09:41,887
American airpower
made the difference.
1225
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:50,107
The North Vietnamese
and their armored columns,
1226
01:09:50,228 --> 01:09:51,650
massed in the open,
1227
01:09:51,771 --> 01:09:55,617
proved easy targets
for American pilots.
1228
01:09:55,733 --> 01:09:59,658
"This," one American advisor
said,
1229
01:09:59,779 --> 01:10:03,750
"was the kind of war
we came to fight."
1230
01:10:57,587 --> 01:11:00,841
The North Vietnamese
suffered 10,000 casualties
1231
01:11:00,965 --> 01:11:02,683
at An Loc alone
1232
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:06,896
and lost most of their tanks
and heavy artillery.
1233
01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:12,727
The bottom line
was that all the air power
1234
01:11:12,852 --> 01:11:14,412
in the world would
not make a difference
1235
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:15,920
if the ARVN hadn't
stood and fought.
1236
01:11:17,482 --> 01:11:20,827
They had held Kon Tum,
they had held An Loc,
1237
01:11:20,943 --> 01:11:22,570
they had re-taken Quang Tri.
1238
01:11:22,695 --> 01:11:24,743
They had taken the best
that the North Vietnamese
1239
01:11:24,864 --> 01:11:26,491
had to throw at them.
1240
01:11:26,616 --> 01:11:29,836
So I thought if we continue
to maintain that support,
1241
01:11:29,952 --> 01:11:31,124
perhaps they had a chance.
1242
01:11:31,245 --> 01:11:35,170
The Easter Offensive, to me,
1243
01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:38,511
showed that the
South Vietnamese could fight,
1244
01:11:38,628 --> 01:11:41,552
but only up to a certain point.
1245
01:11:41,714 --> 01:11:44,342
So, my question would be,
1246
01:11:44,467 --> 01:11:46,390
what would happen when
the Americans left
1247
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:49,055
with their B-52s, you know?
1248
01:11:50,807 --> 01:11:53,856
Americans may have
approved of the renewed use
1249
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:57,230
of American air power
to stop the communist advance
1250
01:11:57,355 --> 01:11:58,698
into the South,
1251
01:11:58,815 --> 01:12:03,286
but Nixon had also ordered
American planes to resume
1252
01:12:03,402 --> 01:12:06,622
sustained bombing
of North Vietnam,
1253
01:12:06,739 --> 01:12:10,289
which had been halted since
the Johnson administration.
1254
01:12:10,409 --> 01:12:14,130
Some saw the new bombing,
which vastly exceeded
1255
01:12:14,247 --> 01:12:16,249
all previous campaigns,
1256
01:12:16,374 --> 01:12:21,096
as evidence that a war Nixon had
promised was winding down
1257
01:12:21,212 --> 01:12:23,931
was once again being escalated.
1258
01:12:27,510 --> 01:12:28,932
The bombing campaign
1259
01:12:29,053 --> 01:12:30,475
was much more extensive
1260
01:12:30,596 --> 01:12:35,067
than the bombing campaign
under Lyndon Johnson.
1261
01:12:35,184 --> 01:12:36,231
And from a standpoint
1262
01:12:36,352 --> 01:12:38,855
of pressuring them
to make concessions
1263
01:12:38,980 --> 01:12:40,778
at the negotiating table,
1264
01:12:40,940 --> 01:12:43,284
historically,
that's how you did it.
1265
01:12:43,401 --> 01:12:45,620
Only it didn't work
with these guys.
1266
01:12:47,738 --> 01:12:49,365
They took the pounding.
1267
01:12:56,539 --> 01:13:00,134
Le Minh Khue,
who had served four years
1268
01:13:00,251 --> 01:13:03,505
as a Youth Volunteer
on the Ho Chi Minh trail,
1269
01:13:03,629 --> 01:13:06,257
was now back home
in North Vietnam.
1270
01:13:48,466 --> 01:13:51,345
Among the thousands
of South Vietnamese
1271
01:13:51,469 --> 01:13:54,143
who lost their lives
in the Easter Offensive
1272
01:13:54,263 --> 01:13:57,392
was the brother
of Phan Quang Tue.
1273
01:13:57,516 --> 01:14:00,019
I had a brother, Tuan.
1274
01:14:00,186 --> 01:14:04,191
And we were raised together.
1275
01:14:04,315 --> 01:14:07,990
He would have been now 67.
1276
01:14:08,110 --> 01:14:10,829
When his plane was shot down
1277
01:14:10,947 --> 01:14:14,918
and later on they weren't
able to recover him,
1278
01:14:15,034 --> 01:14:17,583
his body, so he disappeared,
1279
01:14:17,703 --> 01:14:22,083
he was missing in action,
he was 26 years old.
1280
01:14:22,208 --> 01:14:25,553
He has his full life
ahead of him.
1281
01:14:25,711 --> 01:14:28,681
Tuan never
had a chance to live his life.
1282
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,395
And I can never
overcome the feeling,
1283
01:14:34,553 --> 01:14:38,603
as to himself
1284
01:14:38,724 --> 01:14:40,943
and his generation,
1285
01:14:41,060 --> 01:14:44,280
sacrifice their lives for what?
1286
01:14:46,190 --> 01:14:50,536
And the frustrating thing is
that even Vietnamese themself
1287
01:14:50,653 --> 01:14:52,576
do not seem to value that loss.
1288
01:14:58,911 --> 01:15:01,835
There's only one
way to stop the killing.
1289
01:15:01,956 --> 01:15:05,586
That is to keep the weapons
of war out of the hands
1290
01:15:05,710 --> 01:15:11,433
of the international outlaws
of North Vietnam.
1291
01:15:11,549 --> 01:15:12,766
Throughout the war in Vietnam,
1292
01:15:12,883 --> 01:15:15,557
the United States has
exercised a degree of restraint
1293
01:15:15,678 --> 01:15:17,772
unprecedented
in the annals of war...
1294
01:15:19,515 --> 01:15:22,268
Le Duan's Easter
Offensive, like Tet,
1295
01:15:22,435 --> 01:15:24,608
had been a great gamble.
1296
01:15:24,770 --> 01:15:27,489
So was Nixon's next move.
1297
01:15:27,606 --> 01:15:30,610
The massive North Vietnamese
assault had failed,
1298
01:15:30,776 --> 01:15:32,119
the president said,
1299
01:15:32,278 --> 01:15:35,282
but it could never have been
mounted in the first place
1300
01:15:35,406 --> 01:15:37,875
without weapons and supplies
provided by China
1301
01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:40,541
and the Soviet Union.
1302
01:15:40,661 --> 01:15:44,791
Accordingly,
he ordered 11,000 mines laid
1303
01:15:44,957 --> 01:15:48,382
in North Vietnamese waters
to block further access
1304
01:15:48,502 --> 01:15:50,129
to Haiphong harbor.
1305
01:15:50,296 --> 01:15:53,971
It was something the Joint
Chiefs had been asking for
1306
01:15:54,133 --> 01:15:55,931
for years.
1307
01:15:56,052 --> 01:15:58,146
The scheduled summit
with the Soviets
1308
01:15:58,304 --> 01:15:59,977
was just two weeks away,
1309
01:16:00,139 --> 01:16:02,233
and some advisors
had urged the president
1310
01:16:02,349 --> 01:16:05,273
not to take any action
that directly threatened
1311
01:16:05,394 --> 01:16:09,149
Soviet ships,
for fear they would cancel it.
1312
01:16:09,273 --> 01:16:11,822
Nixon thought he had
to take the risk.
1313
01:16:11,984 --> 01:16:15,955
And so he spoke
directly to Moscow.
1314
01:16:16,072 --> 01:16:19,497
Let us not slide back
toward the dark shadows
1315
01:16:19,617 --> 01:16:22,416
of a previous age.
1316
01:16:22,536 --> 01:16:27,167
We do not ask you
to sacrifice your principles
1317
01:16:27,333 --> 01:16:29,301
or your friends,
1318
01:16:29,418 --> 01:16:32,763
but neither should you
permit Hanoi's intransigence
1319
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:35,474
to blot out the prospects
we together
1320
01:16:35,591 --> 01:16:36,934
have so patiently prepared.
1321
01:16:39,804 --> 01:16:42,523
Nixon's gamble paid off.
1322
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,187
The Soviets and
the Chinese denounced
1323
01:16:44,308 --> 01:16:49,781
the president's action,
but then did nothing.
1324
01:16:49,897 --> 01:16:54,949
On May 26, the United States
and the Soviet Union signed
1325
01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:58,994
an historic Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty,
1326
01:16:59,115 --> 01:17:02,210
the first agreement
to limit nuclear armaments
1327
01:17:02,368 --> 01:17:04,712
since the Cold War began.
1328
01:17:04,829 --> 01:17:07,878
For the Soviet Union, for China,
1329
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,384
as well
as for the United States,
1330
01:17:10,501 --> 01:17:14,881
Vietnam's significance
was steadily receding.
1331
01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:53,419
I know.
1332
01:18:21,447 --> 01:18:25,998
On the morning of June 8, 1972,
1333
01:18:26,118 --> 01:18:30,498
Nick Ut, a 21-year-old
South Vietnamese photographer
1334
01:18:30,623 --> 01:18:32,842
working
for the Associated Press,
1335
01:18:32,958 --> 01:18:36,383
was accompanying ARVN troops
on Highway One,
1336
01:18:36,503 --> 01:18:38,972
moving toward a village
called Trang Bang,
1337
01:18:39,089 --> 01:18:41,808
to dislodge
North Vietnamese forces
1338
01:18:41,967 --> 01:18:45,722
that had occupied it
during the Easter Offensive.
1339
01:18:45,846 --> 01:18:49,066
Ut was beginning
to put his cameras away,
1340
01:18:49,183 --> 01:18:51,106
ready to return to Saigon,
1341
01:18:51,227 --> 01:18:55,949
when he saw a South Vietnamese
fighter suddenly dip down
1342
01:18:56,065 --> 01:18:58,067
toward the fleeing refugees,
1343
01:18:58,192 --> 01:19:00,991
whom the pilot mistook
for the enemy.
1344
01:20:24,528 --> 01:20:29,580
Ut drove the badly
burned girl, Kim Phuc,
1345
01:20:29,700 --> 01:20:31,919
and several other
injured children
1346
01:20:32,036 --> 01:20:34,255
to a hospital in Saigon.
1347
01:20:34,371 --> 01:20:38,717
She had been burned
over 30% of her body.
1348
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:42,054
Then, Ut raced
to the AP darkroom
1349
01:20:42,171 --> 01:20:45,550
to find out
what he had caught on film.
1350
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,702
His photo
editor in Saigon told him
1351
01:21:05,819 --> 01:21:08,789
they could not send the picture
out on the wire,
1352
01:21:08,906 --> 01:21:11,250
because the girl was naked.
1353
01:21:11,367 --> 01:21:13,711
But then Ut's boss,
1354
01:21:13,827 --> 01:21:17,457
the legendary
combat photographer Horst Faas,
1355
01:21:17,623 --> 01:21:19,500
saw the pictures.
1356
01:21:31,470 --> 01:21:35,395
Nick Ut's photograph appeared
1357
01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:38,315
on front pages around the world
1358
01:21:38,435 --> 01:21:42,315
and won the Pulitzer Prize.
1359
01:21:42,481 --> 01:21:45,325
For many Americans,
1360
01:21:45,484 --> 01:21:48,738
even many of those
who had supported the war,
1361
01:21:48,862 --> 01:21:53,459
the image seemed to signal
that enough was enough.
1362
01:21:57,079 --> 01:21:59,423
Kim Phuc would survive.
1363
01:21:59,540 --> 01:22:04,888
She eventually left Vietnam
and settled outside Toronto.
1364
01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:24,323
I introduce
Valerie Kushner of Virginia
1365
01:22:24,440 --> 01:22:27,068
to second the nomination
of George McGovern.
1366
01:22:29,528 --> 01:22:33,078
Mr. Chairman, Democrats,
1367
01:22:33,198 --> 01:22:37,669
my participation
in this convention is a tribute
1368
01:22:37,786 --> 01:22:40,960
to the reforms instituted
by the Democratic Party,
1369
01:22:41,081 --> 01:22:45,006
for I am a woman,
and I am under 30.
1370
01:22:45,127 --> 01:22:48,722
But I also represent
an even smaller minority:
1371
01:22:48,881 --> 01:22:51,555
the wives of Americans
who are missing
1372
01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:54,095
or imprisoned in Southeast Asia.
1373
01:22:57,890 --> 01:23:00,518
Valerie Kushner,
1374
01:23:00,642 --> 01:23:04,021
hoping to get her husband, Hal,
home as soon as possible,
1375
01:23:04,146 --> 01:23:07,070
had become an ardent supporter
of the candidacy
1376
01:23:07,191 --> 01:23:10,741
of Senator George McGovern
of South Dakota.
1377
01:23:10,903 --> 01:23:14,874
A decorated bomber pilot
in World War II,
1378
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:17,664
McGovern had called
for an early end
1379
01:23:17,784 --> 01:23:19,081
to the bombing of the North,
1380
01:23:19,203 --> 01:23:22,252
a halt to Congressional funding
for the war,
1381
01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:24,257
and immediate withdrawal
1382
01:23:24,416 --> 01:23:28,922
from Vietnam
once the POWs were released.
1383
01:23:29,087 --> 01:23:32,432
I knew that he would bring
my husband home.
1384
01:23:36,762 --> 01:23:41,393
But even more important,
he will bring America home.
1385
01:23:44,603 --> 01:23:47,652
And it is for that reason
1386
01:23:47,773 --> 01:23:50,026
that I am proud
to second the nomination
1387
01:23:50,150 --> 01:23:54,872
of our next president,
Senator George S. McGovern.
1388
01:24:00,452 --> 01:24:02,625
By the time her candidate
1389
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:05,124
finally accepted the nomination,
1390
01:24:05,249 --> 01:24:07,843
it was 2:48 in the morning.
1391
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,884
Most Americans were asleep.
1392
01:24:11,004 --> 01:24:15,760
During four
administrations of both parties,
1393
01:24:15,884 --> 01:24:20,856
a terrible war has been
charted behind closed doors.
1394
01:24:23,141 --> 01:24:25,485
I want those doors opened,
1395
01:24:25,602 --> 01:24:28,572
and I want that war closed.
1396
01:24:33,026 --> 01:24:36,701
McGovern's
campaign quickly collapsed.
1397
01:24:36,822 --> 01:24:39,996
He botched the selection
of his running mate,
1398
01:24:40,158 --> 01:24:43,378
and secretly asked an aide
in Paris
1399
01:24:43,495 --> 01:24:46,840
to talk with the
North Vietnamese about POWs,
1400
01:24:46,957 --> 01:24:52,009
and then denied he'd meddled
in the peace process.
1401
01:24:52,170 --> 01:24:54,138
Organized labor,
1402
01:24:54,256 --> 01:24:57,305
traditionally the Democrats'
most reliable ally,
1403
01:24:57,426 --> 01:25:00,225
refused to endorse
the party's candidate
1404
01:25:00,345 --> 01:25:03,815
for the first time in 2O years.
1405
01:25:03,932 --> 01:25:09,655
McGovern's poll numbers eroded
steadily over the summer.
1406
01:25:09,771 --> 01:25:12,695
Still, hoping to find material
1407
01:25:12,816 --> 01:25:15,615
that might be used
to smear the opposition,
1408
01:25:15,736 --> 01:25:19,366
Nixon's aides had already
authorized the Plumbers
1409
01:25:19,489 --> 01:25:21,662
to make another break-in,
1410
01:25:21,783 --> 01:25:25,378
this time at Democratic
National Headquarters
1411
01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:28,336
in the Washington, D.C.,
apartment complex
1412
01:25:28,457 --> 01:25:31,381
called the Watergate.
1413
01:25:31,501 --> 01:25:33,469
They had been caught.
1414
01:25:33,587 --> 01:25:36,215
One of the most
fascinating and exotic stories
1415
01:25:36,340 --> 01:25:38,013
ever to come out
of Washington, D.C.,
1416
01:25:38,133 --> 01:25:40,056
is the talk
of the Capitol today.
1417
01:25:40,177 --> 01:25:42,100
Five men were arrested
early Saturday
1418
01:25:42,220 --> 01:25:45,019
while trying to install
eavesdropping equipment
1419
01:25:45,140 --> 01:25:47,268
at the Democratic
National Committee.
1420
01:25:47,392 --> 01:25:49,565
And it turns out
that one of them has an office
1421
01:25:49,728 --> 01:25:51,947
in the headquarters
of the Committee
1422
01:25:52,064 --> 01:25:53,782
for the Re-Election
of the President.
1423
01:26:04,242 --> 01:26:09,749
# It's a wonder, wonder woman #
1424
01:26:09,873 --> 01:26:15,346
# You're so wild and wonderful #
1425
01:26:15,462 --> 01:26:20,434
# 'Cause it seems whenever #
1426
01:26:20,550 --> 01:26:22,928
# We're together #
1427
01:26:23,053 --> 01:26:24,680
# The planets all... #
1428
01:26:24,805 --> 01:26:28,275
Barbarella-...
Jane Fonda was...
1429
01:26:28,392 --> 01:26:32,442
was one of our major fantasies.
1430
01:26:32,562 --> 01:26:36,658
You know?
I mean, major fantasies.
1431
01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:39,995
And, uh, we couldn't believe it
1432
01:26:40,112 --> 01:26:44,458
when that fantasy
went to North Vietnam.
1433
01:26:44,574 --> 01:26:47,168
She was held to a different
standard of conduct
1434
01:26:47,285 --> 01:26:51,131
by being our fantasy,
you know, our dream girl.
1435
01:26:51,289 --> 01:26:54,793
It's like our dream girl
betrayed us.
1436
01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:58,259
# Where have all
the young men gone? #
1437
01:26:58,380 --> 01:27:02,556
# They are all in uniform #
1438
01:27:02,676 --> 01:27:08,183
# When will they ever learn? #
1439
01:27:08,306 --> 01:27:13,153
# When will they
ever learn? #
1440
01:27:13,270 --> 01:27:15,022
# Where have all... #
1441
01:27:15,147 --> 01:27:17,650
Over the years, a steady stream
1442
01:27:17,774 --> 01:27:21,244
of Americans opposed to the war
would visit Hanoi,
1443
01:27:21,361 --> 01:27:24,581
including the folk singer
Joan Baez,
1444
01:27:24,698 --> 01:27:28,248
David Dellinger
of the War Resisters League,
1445
01:27:28,368 --> 01:27:31,542
the writer Susan Sontag,
1446
01:27:31,663 --> 01:27:36,009
and Tom Hayden of
the Indochina Peace Campaign.
1447
01:27:36,168 --> 01:27:39,263
But no visitor
made more headlines
1448
01:27:39,379 --> 01:27:41,723
than the actress Jane Fonda.
1449
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:45,185
During two weeks
in the summer of 1972,
1450
01:27:45,302 --> 01:27:49,557
she broadcast at least
ten times over Radio Hanoi,
1451
01:27:49,681 --> 01:27:52,025
denouncing American POWs
1452
01:27:52,184 --> 01:27:54,528
for having committed war crimes,
1453
01:27:54,644 --> 01:27:57,113
urging the North Vietnamese
to hold out
1454
01:27:57,230 --> 01:28:00,575
against American imperialism.
1455
01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:03,992
Many Americans
would never forgive her
1456
01:28:04,112 --> 01:28:07,366
for what she did and said.
1457
01:28:07,491 --> 01:28:09,869
According to international law,
1458
01:28:10,035 --> 01:28:12,379
these men are war criminals.
1459
01:28:12,537 --> 01:28:14,005
That's according to law,
1460
01:28:14,122 --> 01:28:15,433
according
to the Nuremberg principles,
1461
01:28:15,457 --> 01:28:17,835
according to the Geneva Accord,
and others.
1462
01:28:17,959 --> 01:28:20,838
They should be tried
in front of a court
1463
01:28:20,962 --> 01:28:23,385
and probably executed
for what they did.
1464
01:28:23,507 --> 01:28:27,057
She's taken a lot
of heat for what she did.
1465
01:28:27,177 --> 01:28:29,726
And deservedly so.
1466
01:28:29,846 --> 01:28:33,316
She did some things
that were terrible.
1467
01:28:33,433 --> 01:28:35,982
And-and, YES,
1468
01:28:36,102 --> 01:28:38,571
we have a right
to be pissed off at her.
1469
01:28:38,730 --> 01:28:41,574
But, you know,
1470
01:28:41,733 --> 01:28:44,407
she wasn't the only one.
1471
01:28:44,569 --> 01:28:49,075
She's just the only one
we fantasized about.
1472
01:28:59,376 --> 01:29:01,424
Four more years!
1473
01:29:01,545 --> 01:29:04,344
Four more years!
Four more years!
1474
01:29:04,464 --> 01:29:06,842
We have brought over
half a million men home,
1475
01:29:06,967 --> 01:29:08,844
and more will be coming home.
1476
01:29:08,969 --> 01:29:11,973
We have ended
America's ground combat role.
1477
01:29:12,097 --> 01:29:14,600
No draftees
are being sent to Vietnam.
1478
01:29:14,724 --> 01:29:17,603
We have reduced our casualties
by 98%.
1479
01:29:17,727 --> 01:29:19,525
We've gone the extra mile.
1480
01:29:19,646 --> 01:29:22,320
In fact, we've gone tens
of thousands of miles
1481
01:29:22,440 --> 01:29:24,818
trying to seek a negotiated
settlement of the war.
1482
01:29:26,736 --> 01:29:29,410
There are three things,
however, that we have not
1483
01:29:29,531 --> 01:29:31,533
and that we will not offer.
1484
01:29:31,658 --> 01:29:34,753
We will never abandon
our prisoners of war.
1485
01:29:42,127 --> 01:29:43,754
And, second,
1486
01:29:43,879 --> 01:29:47,429
we will not join our enemies
1487
01:29:47,549 --> 01:29:51,019
in imposing a communist
government on our ally,
1488
01:29:51,136 --> 01:29:53,480
the 17 million people
of South Vietnam.
1489
01:29:59,644 --> 01:30:01,521
And we will never stain
the honor
1490
01:30:01,646 --> 01:30:03,694
of the United States of America.
1491
01:30:46,775 --> 01:30:49,904
Back in Paris, Henry
Kissinger was determined
1492
01:30:50,028 --> 01:30:54,454
to hammer out a peace agreement
before Election Day.
1493
01:30:54,574 --> 01:30:57,828
Now Le Duc Tho
made a key concession.
1494
01:30:57,953 --> 01:31:00,172
Hanoi no longer insisted
1495
01:31:00,288 --> 01:31:03,713
that President Thieu had to go.
1496
01:31:03,875 --> 01:31:06,549
There was
somehow this compulsion
1497
01:31:06,711 --> 01:31:10,181
to come to some kind
of an agreement.
1498
01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:13,177
I remember Le Duc Tho when
he produced the draft agreement
1499
01:31:13,301 --> 01:31:19,434
in October 8 of '72
to Kissinger, saying,
1500
01:31:19,557 --> 01:31:20,854
"You're in a hurry, aren't you?
1501
01:31:20,976 --> 01:31:22,853
You want to do this quickly."
1502
01:31:22,978 --> 01:31:26,528
And-and the response was, "Yes."
1503
01:31:26,648 --> 01:31:30,073
The two sides
soon had a tentative deal,
1504
01:31:30,193 --> 01:31:32,070
a "cease-fire in place"
1505
01:31:32,195 --> 01:31:34,573
to be followed within 60 days
1506
01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:37,583
by a complete withdrawal
of U.S. troops
1507
01:31:37,742 --> 01:31:41,212
and the return
of all American POWs.
1508
01:31:41,329 --> 01:31:45,459
The United States
stopped bombing the North.
1509
01:31:45,583 --> 01:31:51,135
No one had told President Thieu
any of the terms.
1510
01:31:52,799 --> 01:31:56,474
The day before Kissinger was to
arrive in Saigon to brief him,
1511
01:31:56,594 --> 01:32:00,224
Thieu was handed a document
found in an enemy bunker
1512
01:32:00,348 --> 01:32:02,396
in Quang Tin Province.
1513
01:32:02,517 --> 01:32:06,863
It was entitled "General
Instructions for Cease-Fire."
1514
01:32:06,980 --> 01:32:11,611
It meant that communist cadres
in an isolated province
1515
01:32:11,776 --> 01:32:15,997
of his own country already knew
more about what Kissinger
1516
01:32:16,114 --> 01:32:21,041
and Le Duc Tho had agreed to
in Paris than he did.
1517
01:32:21,161 --> 01:32:24,461
And imagine
being given an agreement
1518
01:32:24,622 --> 01:32:29,970
concerning the fate of your own
country and, uh,
1519
01:32:30,086 --> 01:32:31,713
being told that
you really don't have
1520
01:32:31,838 --> 01:32:35,388
any input in the matter.
1521
01:32:35,508 --> 01:32:38,978
And, oh, by the way,
we didn't even yet have
1522
01:32:39,095 --> 01:32:40,893
the Vietnamese translation,
1523
01:32:41,014 --> 01:32:42,732
because that hadn't been
completed.
1524
01:32:42,849 --> 01:32:46,319
And we gave him
the English version.
1525
01:32:46,436 --> 01:32:49,690
So, I mean,
as a professional diplomat,
1526
01:32:49,814 --> 01:32:52,988
somebody who's been in this
business all my life, uh,
1527
01:32:53,109 --> 01:32:55,737
I've got to tell you,
that just an awful lot
1528
01:32:55,862 --> 01:32:58,536
of diplomatic rules
were broken there.
1529
01:32:58,656 --> 01:33:02,411
Thieu refused
to accept the terms.
1530
01:33:02,535 --> 01:33:05,664
Allowing North Vietnamese troops
to remain in the South
1531
01:33:05,830 --> 01:33:08,834
would be the death
of his country.
1532
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:13,130
Nonetheless,
after Kissinger returned home
1533
01:33:13,254 --> 01:33:15,632
12 days before the election,
1534
01:33:15,757 --> 01:33:19,887
he told the press,
"Peace is at hand."
1535
01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:28,524
On November 7, 1972,
1536
01:33:28,645 --> 01:33:31,694
Richard Nixon won
a stunning victory.
1537
01:33:31,815 --> 01:33:36,537
He was reelected with more
than 60% of the popular vote...
1538
01:33:36,653 --> 01:33:42,535
521 electoral votes
to McGovern's 17.
1539
01:33:42,659 --> 01:33:46,334
He took every single state
except Massachusetts
1540
01:33:46,454 --> 01:33:49,048
and the District of Columbia.
1541
01:33:49,165 --> 01:33:52,214
Now, the president resolved
to rid himself
1542
01:33:52,377 --> 01:33:57,884
of Vietnam completely before
his second inauguration.
1543
01:33:58,049 --> 01:34:00,768
To calm Thieu's fears
of what was to come,
1544
01:34:00,885 --> 01:34:03,638
Nixon launched
another massive airlift
1545
01:34:03,763 --> 01:34:06,562
of military equipment
to South Vietnam.
1546
01:34:06,724 --> 01:34:09,694
"If we had given this aid
to the North Vietnamese,"
1547
01:34:09,811 --> 01:34:11,563
one American general said,
1548
01:34:11,729 --> 01:34:15,905
"they could have fought us
for the rest of the century."
1549
01:34:16,067 --> 01:34:19,913
The Paris peace talks resumed.
1550
01:34:20,071 --> 01:34:23,291
But then, Le Duc Tho
suddenly announced
1551
01:34:23,408 --> 01:34:27,584
he needed to return to Hanoi
for consultation.
1552
01:34:27,704 --> 01:34:29,598
We could only
conclude that maybe they were
1553
01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:31,090
having some doubts about whether
1554
01:34:31,207 --> 01:34:33,084
they wanted to go through
with the agreement,
1555
01:34:33,209 --> 01:34:35,758
because we had sent
so many supplies
1556
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,969
to Saigon
in the intervening weeks.
1557
01:34:39,090 --> 01:34:41,684
There turned
out to be dissension
1558
01:34:41,801 --> 01:34:44,304
on the communist side as well.
1559
01:34:44,429 --> 01:34:47,933
Hanoi, like Washington,
had not bothered to consult
1560
01:34:48,099 --> 01:34:50,193
with its southern comrades.
1561
01:34:50,310 --> 01:34:52,984
It had dropped the two demands
that meant the most
1562
01:34:53,104 --> 01:34:57,075
to the Viet Cong... the removal
of Thieu, and the release
1563
01:34:57,192 --> 01:35:00,287
of some 30,000
of their prisoners.
1564
01:35:00,445 --> 01:35:03,289
"Hanoi's message was clear,"
1565
01:35:03,448 --> 01:35:05,792
one bitter
Viet Cong official said.
1566
01:35:05,909 --> 01:35:09,664
"It cared more about
American prisoners of war
1567
01:35:09,787 --> 01:35:12,461
than it did for us."
1568
01:35:12,582 --> 01:35:16,007
Nixon ordered Kissinger
to suspend the talks,
1569
01:35:16,127 --> 01:35:19,051
and then he resumed the bombing
of North Vietnam
1570
01:35:19,172 --> 01:35:21,300
to further punish Hanoi,
1571
01:35:21,466 --> 01:35:24,265
and to signal to both
Hanoi and Saigon
1572
01:35:24,385 --> 01:35:27,980
that the United States
might use its airpower
1573
01:35:28,097 --> 01:35:30,225
to defend South Vietnam
1574
01:35:30,350 --> 01:35:34,730
even after a peace agreement
was signed.
1575
01:35:36,147 --> 01:35:37,990
On December 18,
1576
01:35:38,107 --> 01:35:41,452
Nixon unleashed round-the-clock
air strikes
1577
01:35:41,569 --> 01:35:44,618
that flattened targets
around Hanoi and Haiphong.
1578
01:35:46,574 --> 01:35:49,794
It would be remembered
as the Christmas Bombing.
1579
01:35:53,331 --> 01:35:55,083
And all of a sudden,
1580
01:35:55,208 --> 01:35:57,176
around Christmastime,
1581
01:35:57,335 --> 01:35:59,588
we hear an Arc Light operation,
1582
01:35:59,712 --> 01:36:02,135
B-52s... bom-bom-bom-bom-bom.
1583
01:36:02,257 --> 01:36:04,100
And it's all around,
and it is just exploding.
1584
01:36:04,217 --> 01:36:09,018
And everyone knew
they were B-52s.
1585
01:36:09,138 --> 01:36:11,357
And is... in the two years
that I was there,
1586
01:36:11,474 --> 01:36:14,023
that was the first time
I ever heard a bomb.
1587
01:36:14,185 --> 01:36:15,562
And it was close.
1588
01:36:15,687 --> 01:36:17,940
It was really close.
1589
01:36:18,064 --> 01:36:20,192
It was frightening,
but we were still cheering.
1590
01:36:20,316 --> 01:36:23,946
I mean, we were cheering because
something was happening.
1591
01:36:57,228 --> 01:36:58,571
NARRATOR".
Around the worm,
1592
01:36:58,688 --> 01:37:01,817
antiwar demonstrators returned
to the streets.
1593
01:37:01,941 --> 01:37:05,036
The prime minister of Sweden
compared the United States
1594
01:37:05,153 --> 01:37:06,746
to Nazi Germany.
1595
01:37:06,904 --> 01:37:08,998
The Pope called the bombing,
1596
01:37:09,115 --> 01:37:11,789
which killed more than
1,600 civilians,
1597
01:37:11,909 --> 01:37:14,913
"the object of daily grief."
1598
01:37:15,079 --> 01:37:19,334
James Reston of the New York
Times pronounced the raids
1599
01:37:19,459 --> 01:37:21,257
"war by tantrum."
1600
01:37:21,377 --> 01:37:25,757
Republican Senator
William Saxbe of Ohio said
1601
01:37:25,923 --> 01:37:30,474
the president had taken leave
of his senses.
1602
01:37:32,263 --> 01:37:36,188
North Vietnam shot down
15 B-52s,
1603
01:37:36,309 --> 01:37:40,610
along with 11 other aircraft.
1604
01:37:40,730 --> 01:37:44,655
93 crewmen were
reported missing.
1605
01:37:44,776 --> 01:37:49,498
45 new prisoners of war
were locked up in Hanoi,
1606
01:37:49,614 --> 01:37:54,211
one of whom died in captivity.
1607
01:37:54,327 --> 01:37:59,208
Meanwhile, both the Chinese
and the Soviets pressed Hanoi
1608
01:37:59,332 --> 01:38:01,755
to resume negotiations.
1609
01:38:01,876 --> 01:38:05,471
"The most important thing is
to let the Americans leave,"
1610
01:38:05,588 --> 01:38:08,717
Zhou Enlai told
a North Vietnamese official.
1611
01:38:08,841 --> 01:38:13,517
"The situation will change
in six months or a year."
1612
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:19,690
On December 26, Hanoi signaled
its willingness
1613
01:38:19,811 --> 01:38:22,030
to return to Paris.
1614
01:38:22,146 --> 01:38:26,697
It would take just six days
to reach a final agreement.
1615
01:38:26,818 --> 01:38:32,996
We bombed them into
accepting our concessions.
1616
01:38:33,157 --> 01:38:37,207
We bombed them into accepting
our concessions.
1617
01:38:37,328 --> 01:38:41,049
And I stand by that statement,
because, in effect,
1618
01:38:41,165 --> 01:38:47,423
what we did was to carry out
this massive bombing campaign
1619
01:38:47,547 --> 01:38:52,394
in order to basically get back
to pretty much exactly
1620
01:38:52,510 --> 01:38:56,140
where we were at the end
of October in '72.
1621
01:38:58,141 --> 01:39:00,985
President Thieu
still balked at signing on.
1622
01:39:01,102 --> 01:39:03,355
Nixon was adamant.
1623
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:06,449
Thieu had to go along with
what Washington and Hanoi
1624
01:39:06,566 --> 01:39:08,113
had worked out.
1625
01:39:08,234 --> 01:39:10,908
But without informing Congress,
1626
01:39:11,028 --> 01:39:13,907
the president assured
Thieu in writing
1627
01:39:14,031 --> 01:39:17,706
that the United States would
"respond with full force"
1628
01:39:17,827 --> 01:39:21,422
if the North ever violated
the agreement.
1629
01:39:21,539 --> 01:39:25,043
"The Americans really leave me
no choice," Thieu said.
1630
01:39:25,209 --> 01:39:29,055
"Either sign
or they will cut off aid.
1631
01:39:29,172 --> 01:39:33,222
"On the other hand, we have an
absolute guarantee from Nixon
1632
01:39:33,384 --> 01:39:35,557
"to defend the country.
1633
01:39:35,678 --> 01:39:40,104
"1 am going to agree to sign
and hold him to his word.
1634
01:39:40,224 --> 01:39:43,899
He is an honest man
and I am going to trust him."
1635
01:39:51,611 --> 01:39:55,707
On January 22, 1973,
1636
01:39:55,823 --> 01:39:59,703
at his ranch in the
Hill Country of Texas,
1637
01:39:59,827 --> 01:40:02,751
Lyndon Baines Johnson,
1638
01:40:02,872 --> 01:40:05,421
the president who had committed
the United States
1639
01:40:05,583 --> 01:40:08,427
to a ground war in Vietnam,
1640
01:40:08,544 --> 01:40:12,799
and had seen that war undercut
his domestic social programs
1641
01:40:12,924 --> 01:40:15,848
and end his political career,
1642
01:40:15,968 --> 01:40:18,096
died of congestive
heart failure.
1643
01:40:23,392 --> 01:40:28,193
The following evening, Richard
Nixon spoke to the nation.
1644
01:40:28,314 --> 01:40:30,908
28 years after the United States
1645
01:40:31,025 --> 01:40:33,778
first became involved
in Vietnam,
1646
01:40:33,945 --> 01:40:36,789
it was finally getting out.
1647
01:40:36,906 --> 01:40:38,283
I have asked for this radio
1648
01:40:38,449 --> 01:40:40,668
and television time tonight
1649
01:40:40,785 --> 01:40:44,255
for the purpose
of announcing that we today
1650
01:40:44,372 --> 01:40:47,626
have concluded an agreement
to end the war
1651
01:40:47,750 --> 01:40:51,800
and bring peace with honor in
Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.
1652
01:40:51,921 --> 01:40:55,300
A cease-fire,
internationally supervised,
1653
01:40:55,424 --> 01:40:59,179
will begin at 7:00 p.m.
this Saturday, January 27,
1654
01:40:59,303 --> 01:41:00,976
Washington time.
1655
01:41:01,138 --> 01:41:03,106
Within 60 days
from this Saturday,
1656
01:41:03,224 --> 01:41:07,445
all Americans held prisoners
of war throughout Indochina
1657
01:41:07,562 --> 01:41:09,985
will be released.
1658
01:41:11,774 --> 01:41:16,496
American prisoners
of war, 591 of them,
1659
01:41:16,654 --> 01:41:19,828
were to be released
in batches of 40.
1660
01:41:19,949 --> 01:41:22,828
Those who had been
in captivity the longest
1661
01:41:22,952 --> 01:41:25,501
were to come home first.
1662
01:41:25,621 --> 01:41:29,501
Today the largest contingents of
repatriated prisoners so far,
1663
01:41:29,667 --> 01:41:31,385
60 men, were flown from Clark
1664
01:41:31,502 --> 01:41:33,345
to Travis Air Force Base,
California.
1665
01:41:33,504 --> 01:41:35,424
Today's
most dramatic moment came
1666
01:41:35,464 --> 01:41:38,013
when Everett Alvarez made
his happy trek down the ramp,
1667
01:41:38,175 --> 01:41:39,222
home at last.
1668
01:41:39,343 --> 01:41:40,743
For almost as long
as most Americans
1669
01:41:40,803 --> 01:41:42,225
have been aware of Vietnam,
1670
01:41:42,346 --> 01:41:46,192
Lieutenant Commander Alvarez
has been a prisoner in Hanoi.
1671
01:41:46,309 --> 01:41:49,188
He was shot down August 5, 1964,
during the first raids flown
1672
01:41:49,312 --> 01:41:52,236
in retaliation for
the Tonkin Gulf incident.
1673
01:41:52,356 --> 01:41:54,154
And finally, today, he was home.
1674
01:41:54,275 --> 01:41:56,619
For years and years,
1675
01:41:56,736 --> 01:42:02,869
we dreamed of this day,
and we kept faith.
1676
01:42:03,034 --> 01:42:07,710
Faith in God, in our president,
1677
01:42:07,872 --> 01:42:09,374
and in our country.
1678
01:42:14,378 --> 01:42:18,884
Hal Kushner's
turn came in mid-March.
1679
01:42:19,050 --> 01:42:21,428
# Oh, beautiful #
1680
01:42:21,552 --> 01:42:25,557
# For heroes proved #
1681
01:42:28,184 --> 01:42:31,939
# In liberating strife #
1682
01:42:32,063 --> 01:42:34,566
And they... then
they called our name.
1683
01:42:34,732 --> 01:42:37,235
And I walked out
in the sunlight.
1684
01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:40,159
And the first thing I saw
was a girl in a miniskirt.
1685
01:42:40,279 --> 01:42:42,953
She was a reporter for one
of the news organizations.
1686
01:42:43,074 --> 01:42:44,997
I'd never seen
a real-life miniskirt.
1687
01:42:45,117 --> 01:42:50,749
# And mercy more than life #
1688
01:42:50,915 --> 01:42:53,134
And there was a
table with the Vietnamese
1689
01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:55,252
and American authorities
on one side,
1690
01:42:55,419 --> 01:42:57,888
and there was a brigadier
general, Air Force general
1691
01:42:58,005 --> 01:43:00,258
in Class A uniform.
1692
01:43:00,424 --> 01:43:03,473
And he looked magnificent.
1693
01:43:03,594 --> 01:43:06,393
And I looked at him...
1694
01:43:06,514 --> 01:43:08,232
and he had breadth,
1695
01:43:08,349 --> 01:43:12,320
he had thickness
that we didn't have.
1696
01:43:12,436 --> 01:43:15,565
And his hair was...
he had on a garrison cap.
1697
01:43:15,690 --> 01:43:18,694
And his hair was
plump and moist,
1698
01:43:18,818 --> 01:43:21,287
and our hair
was like straw, you know.
1699
01:43:21,445 --> 01:43:23,618
It was dry and we were skinny.
1700
01:43:26,075 --> 01:43:27,748
And I went out and I saluted,
1701
01:43:27,868 --> 01:43:30,496
which was a courtesy
that had been denied us
1702
01:43:30,621 --> 01:43:33,340
for so many years.
1703
01:43:33,457 --> 01:43:35,835
And he saluted me, and he...
1704
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:37,928
I shook hands
with him and he hugged me,
1705
01:43:38,045 --> 01:43:39,467
he actually hugged me,
1706
01:43:39,588 --> 01:43:43,138
and he said,
"Welcome home, Major.
1707
01:43:43,300 --> 01:43:44,847
We're glad to see you, doctor."
1708
01:43:44,969 --> 01:43:47,768
And the tears were
streaming down his cheeks.
1709
01:43:47,888 --> 01:43:50,983
And it was just
a-a powerful moment.
1710
01:43:51,100 --> 01:43:55,606
# For purple mountains #
1711
01:43:55,730 --> 01:43:57,073
# Majesty #
1712
01:43:57,189 --> 01:43:59,442
And then this
liaison officer they called
1713
01:43:59,567 --> 01:44:02,946
that came out and got me
and escorted me on this C-141.
1714
01:44:03,070 --> 01:44:06,870
It was this beautiful white
airplane with a flag.
1715
01:44:10,411 --> 01:44:15,463
An American flag
on the tail and USAF.
1716
01:44:15,583 --> 01:44:18,006
# America #
1717
01:44:18,127 --> 01:44:19,424
# You know #
1718
01:44:19,545 --> 01:44:24,016
# God done shed
his grace on thee #
1719
01:44:24,175 --> 01:44:27,679
And they had these real
cute flight nurses on there.
1720
01:44:27,845 --> 01:44:29,722
They were all tall and blonde
and, you know,
1721
01:44:29,847 --> 01:44:31,770
they-they were just gorgeous.
1722
01:44:31,891 --> 01:44:34,189
And we got on this thing
and, and she said,
1723
01:44:34,351 --> 01:44:37,321
this nurse... we sat in these
seats and she said,
1724
01:44:37,438 --> 01:44:38,985
"We have anything you want,
you know.
1725
01:44:39,106 --> 01:44:40,107
"Do... what do you want?"
1726
01:44:40,232 --> 01:44:42,280
And I-I wanted a Coke
with crushed ice
1727
01:44:42,401 --> 01:44:44,529
and some chewing gum.
1728
01:44:44,653 --> 01:44:47,998
# You know, I wish had
somebody to help me sing this #
1729
01:44:48,115 --> 01:44:52,040
# America #
1730
01:44:52,203 --> 01:44:54,456
# America #
# America #
1731
01:44:54,580 --> 01:44:55,877
# I love you, America #
1732
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,634
# God shed #
# You see #
1733
01:44:58,751 --> 01:45:00,879
# My God, he done shed #
# His grace #
1734
01:45:01,045 --> 01:45:03,423
# His grace on thee #
# On thee #
1735
01:45:03,547 --> 01:45:05,720
# And you ought to
love him for it #
1736
01:45:05,883 --> 01:45:10,263
# 'Cause he, he, he,
he crowned thy good #
1737
01:45:10,387 --> 01:45:12,105
# He told me he would #
1738
01:45:12,223 --> 01:45:15,727
# With brotherhood #
1739
01:45:15,893 --> 01:45:18,021
# From sea #
1740
01:45:18,145 --> 01:45:20,239
# To shining #
1741
01:45:20,397 --> 01:45:22,775
# Shining sea #
# Sea #
1742
01:45:22,900 --> 01:45:24,743
# Oh, Lord #
1743
01:45:24,902 --> 01:45:25,994
# Oh, Lord! #
1744
01:45:26,111 --> 01:45:28,409
# I thank you, Lord #
1745
01:45:28,531 --> 01:45:34,038
# Shining sea. #
1746
01:45:46,257 --> 01:45:49,431
Within a few days
of Hal Kushner's release,
1747
01:45:49,552 --> 01:45:54,433
the last American combat troops
would leave Vietnam.
1748
01:45:54,557 --> 01:45:59,279
But they would leave behind
many unanswered questions.
1749
01:45:59,395 --> 01:46:04,026
How long could the South
Vietnamese government survive?
1750
01:46:04,149 --> 01:46:07,323
What was the value
of American promises,
1751
01:46:07,444 --> 01:46:10,288
and American sacrifice?
1752
01:46:10,406 --> 01:46:14,456
And how long would it take
for the wounds of war to heal?
1753
01:46:37,266 --> 01:46:39,769
# Mother, mother #
1754
01:46:39,894 --> 01:46:43,944
# There's too many
of you crying #
1755
01:46:46,859 --> 01:46:49,032
# Brother, brother, brother #
1756
01:46:49,153 --> 01:46:53,158
# There's far too many
of you dying #
1757
01:46:55,159 --> 01:46:58,254
# You know
we've got to find a way #
1758
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,879
# To bring some
loving here today #
1759
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:05,844
# Yeah #
1760
01:47:05,961 --> 01:47:07,508
# Father, father #
1761
01:47:09,423 --> 01:47:11,676
# We don't need to escalate #
1762
01:47:14,511 --> 01:47:18,687
# You see,
war is not the answer #
1763
01:47:18,807 --> 01:47:23,404
# For only love
can conquer hate #
1764
01:47:23,520 --> 01:47:26,364
# You know
we've got to find a way #
1765
01:47:28,484 --> 01:47:31,658
# To bring some
loving here today #
1766
01:47:31,779 --> 01:47:34,157
# Oh #
1767
01:47:34,281 --> 01:47:36,283
# Picket lines #
# Sister #
1768
01:47:36,408 --> 01:47:38,706
# And picket signs #
# Sister #
1769
01:47:38,827 --> 01:47:40,454
# Don't punish me #
# Sister #
1770
01:47:40,579 --> 01:47:43,753
# With brutality #
# Sister #
1771
01:47:43,874 --> 01:47:45,717
# Talk to me #
# Sister #
1772
01:47:45,834 --> 01:47:47,711
# So you can see #
# Sister #
1773
01:47:47,878 --> 01:47:50,301
# Oh, what's going on #
# What's going on #
1774
01:47:50,422 --> 01:47:52,390
# What's going on #
# What's going on #
1775
01:47:52,508 --> 01:47:54,727
# Yeah, what's going on #
# What's going on #
1776
01:47:54,885 --> 01:47:57,013
# Ah, what's going on #
# What's going on #
1777
01:47:57,137 --> 01:47:59,890
# Ah #
# Right on #
1778
01:48:00,015 --> 01:48:01,562
# Whoo! Right on, brother #
1779
01:48:06,563 --> 01:48:08,611
Hey, man, what's your name?
Whoo!
1780
01:48:08,732 --> 01:48:10,450
# Right on, baby #
1781
01:48:10,567 --> 01:48:12,319
Right on.
# Right on #
1782
01:48:28,168 --> 01:48:29,385
Whoo!
# Whoo #
1783
01:48:29,503 --> 01:48:32,256
# Right on, baby #
1784
01:48:46,645 --> 01:48:47,645
Whoo!
1785
01:48:47,771 --> 01:48:49,211
# Right on, baby #
1786
01:48:49,273 --> 01:48:50,273
# Come on #
1787
01:48:50,357 --> 01:48:51,609
# Right on #
1788
01:48:56,905 --> 01:48:59,875
# Whoo! Right on #
1789
01:48:59,992 --> 01:49:01,209
# Go slow #
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