Lyndon Johnson's Neocon Speech "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next" — Transcript

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1. 0:01tonight
2. 0:03Americans
3. 0:04and Asians
4. 0:06are dying for a world
5. 0:09where each people may choose its own
6. 0:12path to change
7. 0:15this is the principle for which our
8. 0:18ancestors fought in The Valleys of
9. 0:20Pennsylvania
10. 0:21it is the principle for which our sons
11. 0:24fight tonight
12. 0:26in the jungles of Vietnam
13. 0:29Vietnam is
14. 0:31far away from this Quad Campus
15. 0:35we have no territory there
16. 0:37or do we seek any
17. 0:39the war is dirty
18. 0:42and brutal
19. 0:44and difficult
20. 0:45and some 400 young men
21. 0:48born into an America that's bursting
22. 0:51with opportunity and promise
23. 0:53have ended their lives on Vietnam's
24. 0:56steaming soil
25. 0:59why must we take this painful Road
26. 1:04why must this nation
27. 1:07Hazard its ease and its interest
28. 1:11and its power
29. 1:13for the sake of a people so far away
30. 1:17we fight
31. 1:18because we must fight
32. 1:21if we're to live in a world
33. 1:23where every country can shape its own
34. 1:26destiny
35. 1:28and only
36. 1:29in such a world will our own Freedom be
37. 1:32finally secure
38. 1:34we're also there because they're great
39. 1:37stakes in the balance
40. 1:40let no one think for a moment that
41. 1:43Retreat from Vietnam would bring an end
42. 1:46to conflict
43. 1:48the battle would be renewed in one
44. 1:50country and then another
45. 1:52the central lesson of our time
46. 1:55is that the appetite of aggression is
47. 1:58never satisfied
48. 2:00to withdraw from one Battlefield
49. 2:03means only to prepare
50. 2:06for the next
51. 2:08we must say in Southeast Asia as we did
52. 2:12in Europe
53. 2:14in the words of the Bible
54. 2:17hitherto
55. 2:18shalt Thou come
56. 2:21but no further