2k3w god, did we do that . Citizens get all excited at the beginning, then all of a sudden, people are dying, killing each other, thats not 2k3w50good. Then the support drops off. I hear ted cruz, we ought to bomb them. 2 ted, youre not going to bomb them. Youre not going to do any fighting. Youre too damn old. You might not have been any good when you were young. I dont know. [ applause ] and some of it is a little bit connected what chuck was saying because we still tend to over dramatize and clean it up. Its not all bad to do that. But as sit accecitizens, i thin studying history is really hard. The historians have enabled us to understand lots of things that we didnt know before which can be painful as well. But its the difficulty. When you say, oh, god, is that who we were . The hardest thing is to say were going to go on. Thats why i emphasize the proudest thing i did in the United States senate, i participated in the Peace Agreement in come body ya aambo oh, sure. And its workin
Austin, texas, titled the vietnam war summit. It is about an hour and ten minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc unit at the university of texas at austin and the pledge of allegiance led by United States Marine Corp Corporal kimberly burres. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc. [ music playing ] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. Gregory al findes, from the university of texas at austin. [ applause ]. Well, thank you. I didnt get a promotion that i did not deserve. Four more years. Good afternoon and welcome to the final day of the vietnam war summit. I would like to take a few moments to thank everybody who participated in the sessions during these past few days. The loc
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element