005 – Video – Communist John Kerry, a Maoist vs US President Richard Nixon — Transcript
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- 0:00it is hard to remember the time when the
- 0:02American people tended to believe what
- 0:04their government said I can assure you
- 0:07tonight with confidence that American
- 0:10involvement in this war is coming to an
- 0:14end the day the South Vietnamese can
- 0:16take over their own defense is in sight
- 0:21can we have a viable warhol's yes a year
- 0:27from New Year's our Vietnam gobbles up
- 0:31South Vietnam behalf of I the butter
- 0:33policy is look at if it is Elvis ugly me
- 0:37jakar recertified some formula the phone
- 0:42sitting together the hitter too after
- 0:45wish after years present Vietnam to be a
- 0:50backwater we're veterans of Vietnam and
- 0:59we're telling the American people that
- 1:00the war is wrong I want to ask you who
- 1:02you're going to believe the veterans of
- 1:03Vietnam are tricky dick
- 1:08yeah it's pretty burns me up we have no
- 1:11pride in you anymore nobody's gonna cry
- 1:14about patriotism while it is true that
- 1:17you need the poles and everything else
- 1:19there is a credibility and about Oscars
- 1:22they don't believe this they don't
- 1:23there's a lack of confidence in the kind
- 1:26of rewards over if we start super around
- 1:29and glittering to these Packard's hell
- 1:32is Jesus live each day to facilitate the
- 1:36process by which the United States
- 1:38washes her hands of Vietnam someone has
- 1:41to die so that President Nixon won't be
- 1:44and these are his words the first
- 1:46president to lose a war that's all
- 1:49carried it hell he turns out to be
- 1:52really quite a phony really is sort of a
- 1:55pony isn't he I realize in this room
- 1:58there are many reporters who disagree
- 2:02with my policy to bring the war to an
- 2:06end in the way that I believe it should
- 2:08be ended and who probably agree with the
- 2:11views of the demonstrators I was
- 2:12insisting on and worked for peace with
- 2:14honor and they wanted peace at any price
- 2:20richard nixon was elected to end the war
- 2:24this mud bath started long ago and we
- 2:28are a part of it and it will continue
- 2:29daily as long as the war continues
- 2:31despite the fact that many members of
- 2:34Congress were making great noises
- 2:36against the war and despite the fact
- 2:40that the media was overwhelmingly
- 2:41against the war that was not the voice
- 2:43of America The Voice of America was the
- 2:46silent majority tricia nixon and edward
- 2:54cops will be married tomorrow
- 3:14the women of my life Paul bender I have
- 3:19always sort of prided myself on
- 3:21self-control and I am emotional but I
- 3:26don't believe you should share emotions
- 3:27I'm a great believer in privacy hello I
- 3:32felt and I wasn't wedding with just
- 3:34grade was the you got to get Pat and
- 3:37Tricia the credit they really worked in
- 3:38the White House staff weren't they great
- 3:40film is absolutely superb
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