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[cheers and applause]
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- Every inauguration has its special drama.
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I suppose the special drama of this one
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is the game that destiny has played with Richard Nixon.
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Eight years ago, he was defeated
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for President of the United States.
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Something few politicians recover from.
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Six years ago, he was defeated
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for the governorship of California and quit politics.
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Something no politician has ever recovered from.
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And he's back today, the winner, to be sworn in
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as the 37th President of the United States.
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- The greatest honor history can bestow
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is the title of peacemaker.
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all: End the war in Vietnam! Bring the troops home!
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End the war in Vietnam! Bring the troops home!
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- This honor now beckons America.
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all: Peace now! Peace now!
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- This is our summons to greatness,
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and I believe the American people
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are ready to answer this call.
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[overlapping shouting]
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- Leave him alone!
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- Hey! Hey! Hey!
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- As the presidential motorcade moved west
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on Pennsylvania Avenue,
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the President passed a group of peace demonstrators.
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- People are throwing things into the street now.
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- Hey! Let's go! Let's go!
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- As we move toward the end of this inaugural day,
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the title that President Nixon yearns for most
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is that of peacemaker.
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[cheering, shouting]
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So we wish our new president well
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and all the luck in the world.
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He'll need it.
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- When I walked into the office
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in January of 1969, I inherited a problem.
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The war in Vietnam had been going on
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for a period of five years
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with the casualties running 200 to 300 a week.
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I didn't send 550,000 men to Vietnam.
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Nevertheless, this was the responsibility
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that I knew was mine.
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Good evening, my fellow Americans.
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Since I took office four months ago,
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nothing has taken so much of my time and energy
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as the search for a way
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to bring lasting peace to Vietnam.
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I want to end this war.
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The American people want to end this war,
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but we want to end it permanently.
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And therefore, we have ruled out a one-sided withdrawal
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from Vietnam or the acceptance of terms
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that would amount to a disguised American defeat.
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When we assumed the burden of helping defend South Vietnam,
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millions of South Vietnamese men, women,
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and children placed their trust in us.
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To abandon them now would risk a massacre
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that would shock and dismay everyone in the world
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who values human life.
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Let me be quite blunt:
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our fighting men are not going to be worn down.
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Our mediators are not going to be talked down,
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and our allies are not going to be let down.
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Thank you and goodnight.
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- The speech this evening was a culmination of more
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than a month of background speculation.
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Dan, I'd like to know if, indeed,
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there is anything new in the speech tonight.
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- Roger, I think the immediate visceral reaction
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is "same old stuff."
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The President did not announce
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any limited U.S. troop withdrawals.
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He announced no U.S. troop withdrawals at all.
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There just isn't a great deal in this speech
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that the American people will immediately recognize as new.
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- Do you think you're any nearer to peace
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after listening to President Nixon's speech?
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- Well, maybe next three or four years, but no way soon.
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- For nine days, American and South Vietnamese troops
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have been trying to take a mountain
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near the Laotian border,
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and ten times they've been thrown back.
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The casualties have been so high
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that the mountain has come to be known as Hamburger Hill.
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- They just kept sending us up there,
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and we weren't getting anywhere.
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They were just slaughtering us, like a turkey shoot,
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and we were the turkeys.
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- Hamburger Hill, captured only last week,
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apparently is going to be abandoned.
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The battle for Hamburger Hill and the resulting casualties
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set off quite a controversy this week,
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and Senator Edward Kennedy was in the center of it.
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- Certainly anyone-- anyone that witnessed
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the cruelty and savagery of this past week
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would only have been immoral if they had remained silent.
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Silent about this war.
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- Responding to that criticism,
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the spokesman said Mr. Nixon
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does not second-guess his field commanders.
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- Teddy Kennedy is far and away
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the Democratic front-runner for president in 1972.
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- 1972.
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A great many stories about a Muskie-Kennedy ticket
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and a Kennedy-Muskie ticket.
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I want to just say tonight, right now,
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there's absolutely no truth to those stories.
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Ed Muskie hasn't picked a vice president yet.
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Let me say...
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neither have I.
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- For Democrats, the young Massachusetts senator,
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last of the Kennedy brothers,
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speaks out strongly on the major issues
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where conflict arises with President Nixon
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and Republicans, generally.
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- All of the so-called intellectual elite,
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the so-called better people,
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were against what we were doing in Vietnam.
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whatever the cost might be.
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Well, if they wanted to end the war,
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they should have supported what we were trying to do,
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rather than to sabotage our efforts to end it.
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- The President asks for time to end the war,
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but these people think he's had enough,
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and they hope the American public will give him
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that same message, in a big way on October 15th.
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- Mr. President, what is your view, sir,
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concerning the student moratorium being planned
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against the Vietnam War?
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- As far as this kind of activity is concerned,
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we expect it.
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However, under no circumstances
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will I be affected whatever by it.
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- That brief categorical statement has backfired
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and become a rallying point for the anti-war movement.
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all: Peace now! Peace now!
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Peace now! Peace now! Peace now!
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Peace now! Peace now! Peace now! Peace now!
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Peace now! Peace now! Peace now! Peace now!
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- Today we unite, from one coast to another,
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to seek, to request,
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to implore an armistice.
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- Hundreds and hundreds of thousands,
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in cities from New York to Dubois, Wyoming,
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have sought to impress upon the President
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their opposition to the war.
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- More than 40,000 of our men have given their lives
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as sacrificial lambs to a godless cause.
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When will it cease?
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When does the moratorium
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on death to our sons begin
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by the United States government?
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[applause]
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- It just seems to all of us who observe politics
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that something has changed
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since Richard Nixon has come in.
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all: End the war! End the war!
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- What caused that? - Well, I think one must say
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that the disillusionment index begins
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to represent Middle America, not just the left wing.
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- What we've seen today--
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President Nixon will have to take account of it,
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because if it appears to him to be essential
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to the success of his own administration, he must do it.
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- Well, you can go further than that, Ed,
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and you can say that President Nixon himself started this.
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President Nixon ran on a platform
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of ending the war and winning the peace,
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so ending the war is now dogma in American politics,
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and it becomes a matter of when.
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And then it becomes inevitably a matter of "hurry up."
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- I was particularly concerned about this protest
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we had on October the 15th,
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and another was planned, so under the circumstances,
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I knew it was necessary to address the nation.
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- After a lot of the demonstrations,
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he seemed frustrated and he seemed beleaguered,
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so I saw the toll it had taken on him,
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but his first reaction was to fight back.
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- In a few moments, the President will address
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the nation in a major policy speech
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on the situation in Vietnam.
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- The President undertakes his most important selling job
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since he moved into the White House,
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and how well he does it may influence
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the making or breaking of his presidency.
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- Good evening, my fellow Americans.
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I believe that one of the reasons
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for the deep division about Vietnam
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is that many Americans have lost confidence
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in what their government has told them about our policy.
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Tonight, therefore,
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I would like to answer some of the questions
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that I know are on the minds
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of many of you listening to me.
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We have adopted a plan for the complete withdrawal
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of all U.S. combat ground forces and their replacement,
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by South Vietnamese forces,
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on an orderly, scheduled timetable.
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I have not and do not intend to announce the timetables.
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- Oh.
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- I recognize that some of my fellow citizens disagree
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with the plan for peace I've chosen.
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In San Francisco a few weeks ago,
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I saw demonstrators carrying signs reading,
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"Lose in Vietnam. Bring the boys home."
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But as president of the United States,
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I would be untrue to my oath of office,
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if I allowed the policy of this nation
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to be dictated by the minority who hold that point of view
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and who try to impose it on the nation,
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by mounting demonstrations in the street.
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And so tonight, to you,
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the great, silent majority,
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I ask for your support.
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I pledged in my campaign for the presidency
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to end the war.
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The more support I can have,
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the sooner that pledge can be redeemed.
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Let us be united for peace.
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Thank you and goodnight.
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- [sighs]
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- Whatever reaction to the President's
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Vietnam speech you want,
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you could find here in Washington the day after.
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The President himself received lots of it
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and twice invited reporters in
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to see it stacked on the desk where the buck stops.
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- Most of the response was favorable,
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but not all was spontaneous.
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- Before the President's speech,
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Republican Party officials were directed to generate
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as much favorable reaction as possible.
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- How many of the telegrams and letters are part
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of the carefully orchestrated
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Republican Party publicity campaign?
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It is too early to say.
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- Do you believe there's something
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such as a silent majority?
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- Yes I do.
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The minority have been very active and very loud.
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The silent majority are the people that are, I think,
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a little bit more in agreement with what is happening,
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and therefore they're not as loud.
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- And I hope that the minority group
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does join the majority group,
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because he's doing a great job.
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- I agree with him 100%.
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- Our approval rating went up to 68%.
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Despite the fact that the media was overwhelmingly
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against the war.
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thousands of them, that that was not the voice of America.
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I believe that we can see that the Vietnam War
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will come to a conclusion.
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the United States of America,
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acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,
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the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy
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will threaten free nations throughout the world.
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- Mr. Nixon argues that enemy activity across the border
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in Cambodia has been provocative,
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and that to ignore it would hurt the President's ability
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to continue withdrawing U.S. troops.
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- They went ahead, telling no one in Congress
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and almost no one in the State or Defense departments.
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- This is certainly going to be a decision
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that will provoke great controversy.
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- We are protesting Richard Nixon's
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stupid action of expanding the war in Southeast Asia.
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- President Nixon doesn't want peace.
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You're not going to tell me that somebody
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escalates the war that wants peace.
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He's just lying to the American people.
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- You can't have the President of the United States
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alienating students.
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Refer to students as "bums."
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- The statement itself really was an affront
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to students emotionally.
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- Leave this area immediately.
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- After two days of rioting over Cambodia,
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the university have banned rallies.
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So the National Guard stood by to enforce the ban.
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- She resented being called a bum...
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because she disagreed with someone else's opinion.
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She felt that war in Cambodia was wrong.
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Have we come to such a state in this country
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that a young girl...
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has to be shot,
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because she disagrees deeply
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with the actions of her government?
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- I must say that was certainly
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the most emotionally wrenching experience
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I had during the entire period of the presidency,
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because you see a girl like that
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shot and killed at Kent State,
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and her father made a statement to the effect,
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"My daughter was not a bum."
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but let's understand that this was not
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just a case of a group of hard-nosed military people
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shooting down innocent students.
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Kent State had been virtually a battleground.
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and threw tear gas canisters.
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by those that had brought it on
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by the kind of actions that they were inspiring.
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- The White House tonight issued
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the following statement.
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"This should remind us all that
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"when dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy.
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"It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident
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"will strengthen the determination to stand firmly
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against the resort to violence as a means of such expression."
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- I believe the Nixon administration is really
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not trying to bring us together,
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but is engaged in a polarization process.
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all: No more Kent State!
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No more Kent State!
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- In New York, the students have been demonstrating
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against the war and the killings of Kent State.
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- What do we want? all: Peace!
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- When do we want it? all: Now!
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- These kids,
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so-called peaceful, and they can get away
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with all the garbage that goes on here in the city.
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Well, enough said.
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[cheering and applause]
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all: USA! USA!
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- Soon dozens then hundreds of hard-hatted workers
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from nearby construction jobs charged through police lines
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chasing the protestors from the steps.
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Beating those who did not move fast enough
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and the few who tried to slug it out.
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- President Nixon tonight will attempt to dispel
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the atmosphere of growing crisis.
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- The words he uses tonight
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are considered at the White House
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perhaps the most important of his political life.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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the President of the United States.
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[gentle music]
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- Won't you be seated?
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Mr. Risher?
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- Mr. President, have you been surprised
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by the intensity of the protest against your decision
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to send troops into Cambodia?
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- No, I have not been surprised
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by the intensity of the protests.
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Those who are protesting believe
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that this decision will expand the war.
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I know how deeply they feel,
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but I know that what I have done
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will accomplish the goals that they want.
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- Mr. President. - Mr. Cormier?
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- Do you believe that you can open up
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meaningful communications
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with this college-age generation, and how?
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- I would like to try, as best I can, to do that.
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It is not easy.
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Sometimes, they, as you know,
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talk so loudly that it is difficult to be heard.
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When the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool.
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- Mr. President?
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- Do you believe that the use of the word "bums"
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to categorize some of those who are engaged in dissent--
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do you believe that's in keeping with your suggestion
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that the rhetoric should be kept cool?
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- All the members of this press corps know that I have,
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for years, defended the right of dissent.
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I have always opposed the use of violence,
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and when students on university campuses
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burn buildings, when they engage in violence,
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then I think "bums" is perhaps too kind a word
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to apply to that kind of person.
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- Public opinion polls have indicated that lately
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the President was slipping in the matter of trust.
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That there was a vague feeling that perhaps President Nixon
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did not have quite as strong a grip on things
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as might have appeared during his first year.
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He is on the spot. He knows it.
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- Campaign '70 election preview.
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- Perhaps the most striking feature of this campaign
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has been the unprecedented personal effort
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by President Nixon.
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[upbeat music]
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- In the last year or so, the United States Senate
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has served as a focus for the opposition to the Vietnam War,
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and so this year Mr. Nixon
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is hoping to change the complexion of the Senate.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present
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to you the President of the United States.
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Let's welcome him.
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[cheers and applause]
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[crowd booing]
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- I know that I [indistinct]--
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[cheering]
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There are those who say,
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"How do we answer those who engage in violence?
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How do we answer those who try to shout down a speaker?"
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And my answer is don't answer in kind.
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It's time for the great silent majority
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just to stand up and be counted.
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[cheers and applause]
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[dramatic music]
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- There have been reports, sir,
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that those who shout obscenities to the President
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are his secret weapon.
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- I don't think there's any question about it.
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I think the President said the other day
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that one obscenity was worth 10,000 votes.
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[all shouting]
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- What did you think of the disruptions?
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- The disruptions?
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Oh, I'm always sorry for young people that have no values.
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- Go back to construction!
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[overlapping shouting]
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- The President of the United States
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should not be heckled and yelled obscenities at.
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They just ought to throw them out and shoot 'em
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or hang 'em or something like that.
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[crowd booing]
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- We will get a direct answer tonight
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on how successful Mr. Nixon was
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in helping his hand-picked candidates for the Senate.
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- Mr. President, can we have a picture
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of you putting it in the box, sir?
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- Oh-oh. - Pardon me.
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- Could we get the whole family together, sir?
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- Go.
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[laughter]
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- Yeah. - Go.
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- Now from election headquarters in New York,
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Howard K. Smith and Frank Reynolds.
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- Howard, what do you make of the effect so far,
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so far as we can tell,
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of the last-minute blitz by the President?
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- The blitz did not have the expected results.
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- President Nixon's law and order campaign
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failed to touch off the Republican stampede
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he hoped for.
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- Democrats have retained control of the Senate.
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The House remains in Democratic hands,
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and in the balloting for 35 governorships,
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the Republicans have come out behind.
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- The message of the campaign seems to be the Republicans
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are doing something that's not right.
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They'd better find out what it is that's wrong before 1972.
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- Here we are at an all-time low.
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The polls are low. The credibility rating's low.
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The magazines are saying Nixon's in trouble.
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Everything is bad,
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and we needed to do something about that.
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[gentle music]
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[dramatic music]
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- The preparations are in full swing at the White House
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for tomorrow's wedding of the President's daughter,
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Tricia, to Edward Finch Cox.
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- Nervous at all?
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- No, I'm not nervous. - Not yet.
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♪ ♪
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[tense music]
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- In 1967, Secretary of Defense McNamara
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assigned his officials to write a top-secret history
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of how we got into Vietnam.
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Composed over two years, it was 7,000 pages in length,
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full of secret documents.
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Well, one copy has been leaked to the "New York Times,"
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which yesterday began publishing a digest of it.
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- Unconscionable--
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- Was Nixon paranoid?
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Yes, and he took on this self-survival cloak,
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and that led to other things happening.
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- There was a mood of panic and despair.
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Nixon wanted to bring in a group of people
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who would do security, these kind of black bag jobs,
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and told me to do whatever it took.
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That really led to the creation of the Plumbers.
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♪ ♪
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- From the Oval Office of the White House,
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a conversation with President Nixon
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with White House correspondent Dan Rather.
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- Thank you, Mr. President. Happy New Year to you.
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Since this is a new year,
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may we assume that you are a candidate for reelection?
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- Well, that's not an unexpected question.
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While I cannot announce it on this program,
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most assume that a man
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who has served in the office of President
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will be a candidate for reelection.
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- Everything seems to have been pointed in the direction
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of climaxing in this election year.
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Trips to Peking and Moscow.
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Is all of this coincidental, the timing, or is it,
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as some of even your friends say,
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politically motivated?
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- Those of us who make decisions in offices
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like this--certainly, we think politically,
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but the country comes first.
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[applause]
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[intense music]
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♪ ♪
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The government of the People's Republic of China
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and the government of the United States
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must see that we can have differences
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without being enemies in war.
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[applause]
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- Many world leaders said they felt the visit might be
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a key to ultimate peace in Southeast Asia.
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- Certainly from here on, the attention, the publicity,
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the news reporting will be centered
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on Mr. Nixon's journey to China.
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[applause]
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- My hope is that many, many Americans,
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particularly the young Americans
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who like to travel so much,
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will have an opportunity to see this Wall,
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to know the Chinese people and know them better.
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- The President's China visit is politically convenient.
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The other candidates in the New Hampshire
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and Florida primaries aren't getting any attention.
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Mr. Nixon is on the other side of the world,
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and he's getting all of the attention.
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But then he is President, and he is in China.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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[explosions]
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[dramatic music]
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♪ ♪
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- The North Vietnamese have launched
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a major military offensive.
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- South Vietnamese forces are evacuating
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the positions in South Vietnam,
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and the civilians are going with them.
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The first real test of South Vietnamese military forces
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has been failed.
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Andrew Pearson--
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- The enemy offensive touched off alarm bells
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throughout the White House.
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The President is personally coordinating
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much of the battlefield strategy himself.
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It is a misty, rainy night in Washington.
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The President requested nationwide broadcast time,
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after a series of meetings with his chief aides.
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The White House would say only the President
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will discuss Southeast Asia.
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It is important.
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[dramatic music]
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- Today, there was no effort to conceal
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the grave atmosphere which precedes
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a military decision of the highest importance.
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[indistinct chatter]
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- Good evening.
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The Communist armies of North Vietnam
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launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam.
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The North Vietnamese arrogantly refuse
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to negotiate anything.
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Their answer to every peace offer we have made
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has been to escalate the war,
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and the Communist offensive has now reached the point
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that it gravely threatens the lives of 60,000 American troops
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who are still in Vietnam.
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There's only one way to stop the killing.
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- Put on your goggles. Standby to start engine.
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- I have ordered the following measures
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which are being implemented as I am speaking to you.
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All entrances to North Vietnamese ports will be mined.
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- Stand clear of intakes, exhausts and propellers.
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- Rail and all other communications
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will be cut off to the maximum extent possible.
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- 30 seconds. 30 seconds to launch.
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- Air and naval strikes against military targets
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in North Vietnam will continue.
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- Launch aircraft. Launch aircraft.
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- I know how much you want to end this war.
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I know how much you want to bring our men home,
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and I think you know, from all that I have said
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and done these past three-and-a-half years,
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how much I, too, want to end the war,
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to bring our men home.
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With God's help, with your support,
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we will accomplish that great goal.
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- [indistinct] 3 and 4. - Roger, 3 and 4.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[gentle music]
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♪ ♪
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- Today, U.S. bomber pilots
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reported destroying an important railroad bridge,
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cutting one of two rail lines to China.
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- The North Vietnamese say American planes bombed a dike
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on the outskirts of Hanoi and other populated areas.
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- The Hanoi government claimed that the targets
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were not just military installations.
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Hospitals, schools, factories,
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and storehouses were damaged.
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[lively music]
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- The President pledged in 1968
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a plan to end the war.
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Now, we're moving into the year of his reelection
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with the war escalating to a level
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it has, heretofore, not achieved.
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I am now convinced there's no way to end this war,
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except to take Richard Nixon out of office.
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- What's your opinion?
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- I think it's great.
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I'm backing him 100%.
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- Well, you got to blast the whole damn place
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off the map and forget it.
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- I approve thoroughly.
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- Would you approve stronger military action?
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- Yes, I would.
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- Bomb 'em and then get out. I think that's the best way.
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[explosions]
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- Good evening.
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We have a mystery story out of Washington.
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Five people have been arrested and charged
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with breaking into the headquarters
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of the Democratic National Committee
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in the middle of the night.
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[overlapping chatter]
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- The Watergate Apartment Hotel office complex
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in Washington is noted for its security,
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but the burglars penetrated that security
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through a fire well door.
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Material from files there was found in their possession,
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as well as extensive photographic
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and electronic eavesdropping gear.
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- The suspects are saying nothing.
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The Democrats say they have no idea
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who would want to spy on them.
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The season's first hurricane
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was born today, in the Caribbean.
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She's moving through the Yucatan Channel,
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on a course that could bring her ashore
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somewhere along the west coast of Florida.
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- A small, but extremely dangerous storm
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is now shifting westward.
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- A White House consultant was implicated today
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in that apparent attempt to bug or burglarize
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the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
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- All residents of the low-lying areas
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are advised to evacuate by noon today.
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- The White House denied and continues to deny
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involvement in any wrongdoing.
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- The tides are running six to eight feet above normal,
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and it's going to get higher.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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- [grunts]
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- Mr. Nixon has made it clear
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that he does not intend to obey the law of the land.
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- Any suggestion that this president's
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ever gonna slow down
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or is ever gonna leave this office,
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until he finishes the job he was elected to do...
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- The President has engaged in a series of actions
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designed to thwart the lawful investigation
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by government prosecutors.
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- That--that's just plain poppycock.
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