The President: July 1966 Part 3 of 3

The President: July 1966 Part 3 of 3 Lyndon Johnson w/ family boarding Presidential jet Air Force One ? for “non-political” tour of Indiana, Illinois & Kentucky. PoV from inside jet on take off. LBJ speech to large crowds in Indianapolis re Vietnam War - banners inc. ‘Welcome to Indiana LBJ’ & ‘Back LBJ In Viet Nam’ - Lady Bird watching. “The guerrilla war in South Vietnam was inspired by Hanoi...if the American people need any reminder of the kind of enemy we face...they can read reports this morning that the Viet Cong attacked yesterday the United States hospital at Danang...typical of the way the Communists fight...” - speech in VO. CU war memorial ‘Indian and British War 1811-1812 - Battle of Tippecanoe’. CUs LBJ shown captured Viet Cong uniforms & equipment ? by members of 101st Airborne Division. 01:23:43 LBJ visit to Fort Campbell, KY speech continues in VO - reviews troops from back of jeep - raining heavily. Members of 101st decorated - CUs inc. Black soldier - LBJ talks to wounded veteran in wheelchair - Lady Bird shakes hands w/ servicemen. 01:25:15 LBJ visits Vincennes, IN: crowds, Stars & Stripes bunting & home-made placards inc. ‘We Need LBJ’. LBJ signs into law bill establishing George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, commemorating opening of Northwest Territory. LBJ speech to huge crowd re Vietnam War - “if they refuse to negotiate...make them pay a high price for their warfare...” - applause. 01:26:26 LBJ at nighttime ceremony awarding beautification citation to Postmaster of Jeffersonville, IN - speech at podium “we are not afraid of frontiers...” - LBJ greeting crowds - placards inc. ‘Welcome LBJ’ & ‘We Love Lady Bird’. 01:27:26 LBJ presents Speed & Altitude citation to USAF servicemen Col. Robert L Stephens & Lieut Col. Walter F Daniel. 01:27:55 Unveiling of patriotic postage stamp designs petitioned for by Sioux City junior high school students - ‘We Appreciate Our Servicemen’. 01:28:27 British PM Harold Wilson arrives at White House in motorcade w/ US & UK flags 29Jul66; VO Britain “beset by the worst economic crisis since World War Two, pressured by left wing Labourites re Vietnam...” B/W still sequence of Wilson & LBJ talking w/ LBJ speech in VO “you and I have many things in common, Mr Prime Minister...” 01:29:47 Grounded Eastern airliners at National Airport - B/W still sequence LBJ meeting w/ both sides of airline dispute at White House - LBJ shaking hands w/ William J Curtin, negotiator for airlines, & PL Siemiller representing machinist union after agreement reached. More grounded planes after rejection of agreement by union. 1960s. US Domestic & Foreign Policy. Vietnam War. Commercial Aviation - Strikes.