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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221071-07
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1968
Country: USA,Vietnam
Location: CA,California,DC,el toro mas,Fort Bragg,Hue,North Carolina,palm desert,Saigon,Washington
TC Begins: 01:57:50
TC Ends: 02:06:35
Duration: 00:08:45
The President: February 1968 Part 1 of 3 Vietnam War - good montage shots of Tet Offensive, Saigon & Hue: street fighting - aerial attack & fighter plane - tank using flamethrower on building - troops running - aftermath of destruction - wounded soldier loaded onto helicopter. LBJ speech in VO “the enemy of freedom has chosen to make this year the decisive one...” Title. 01:59:28 Lyndon Johnson speech at annual Presidential Prayer Breakfast, 01Feb68 - “we are fighting now as we fought 25 years ago, to prevent any further expansion of totalitarian coercion over the souls of men...” 02:00:12 LBJ conferring Medal of Honor on Air Force Major Dethlefson in White House East Room - “spokesman for the courage of thousands like him that are protecting you and serving us...” 02:01:59 LBJ at Cabinet meeting & National Security meeting w/ Joint Chiefs of Staff re Tet Offensive & Khe Sanh MOS - McNamara present - VO re outcome of meetings. 02:03:24 LBJ visits Fort Bragg, NC & El Toro Marine Air Station, CA - seeing off more troops bound for Vietnam - shaking soldiers’ hands as they board USAF transport plane - speech in VO “you will serve the cause of freedom just as your forefathers served it...” 02:04:57 LBJ arrives by helicopter for visit w/ Eisenhower at Palm Desert, CA - LBJ & Ike walking in garden. 02:05:40 PM Harold Wilson arrives at White House, 08Feb67 - shots of meeting w/ LBJ speech heard in VO “our two nations are as close as ever”. 1960s. US Foreign Policy. Vietnam War.