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War and why our evacuation from that war was at times chaotic and always dangerous. this happened before, but the president didnt say a word then. the last american helicopter left vietnam on april 30th, 1975 at the end of a much more chaotic evacuation than we saw in afghanistan and the republican president of the united states are gerald ford, said nothing. he did not give a speech about it, he did not answer press questions about it. president ford was not attacked by his political opponents ...

The only model we have for an evacuation from a war that we lost. and every day of the evacuation of vietnam was utter chaos at every level. the president of the united states did not believe there was a thing he could do or say to reduce the chaos. secretary of state henry kissinger was enveloped in the chaos himself. the military did their best trying to do something they had never done before. they conducted a major evacuation from a war that we lost while they were being shot at. henry kissi...

New orleans at tulane university in which he did not talk -- he actually did talk, did talk about american humiliation in war, but he was talking about the war of 1812. seriously. >> we as a nation have suffered humiliation and a measure of defeat in the war of 1812. our national capitol in washington had been captured and burned so the illustrious victory in the battle of new orleans was a powerful restorative to our national pride. >> in that speech at tulane, president ford talked about econo...

President minh tried to achieve a cease-fire but the air base was bombed by north vietnamese pilots, rocket attacks on the airport followed in which u.s. marines charles mcmahon and darwin judge were killed, becoming the last two americans killed in combat in vietnam, their bodies were left in the hospital in saigon by mistake. president forward did not say one word about their deaths, not one word. because the americans couldnt use the airport anymore, they used helicopters touching down on the...

Just last year chairman of the joint chiefs, mark milley, also testified before congress and said to congress, we have made a, quote, modicum of success. we have an entire generation of general officers in the military that presided over a failed war. at minimum they failed to adequately advise the senior leadership that this war was unwinnable and unachievable by any means and at worst they failed to do the job they were assigned to do of winning the nations wars. so if our general officers who...

Watching all of this when we evacuated from vietnam and he clearly remembers that evacuation because today he said this. >> the bottom line is there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, threats we faced. none. >> today president biden said weve got to learn from our mistakes. but we never do. we made all the mistakes of vietnam in afghanistan and we will probably make them again somewhere because too many people in the american ne...

Clear, achievable goals, not ones well never reach. and, second, we must stay clearly focused on the fundamental national security interest of the united states of america. >> dan, you heard that surge of applause in the video i played of president ford in new orleans speaking to a basically republican audience about getting out of vietnam. there was universal by that point agreement that we needed to get out of vietnam. i also felt that we had learned the lessons that joe biden said we have to ...

Off. i thought it was an absolutely honest speech. i think it was realistic. i think a lot of people who were saying, well, we might have done this, we should have done that, we should have done whatever, i think theyre living in a fantasy land where, as you pointed out, you can lose a war gracefully and in an orderly fashion. that simply does not happen and, you know, my reference on that is all of human history. >> yes, its a pretty big reference. lets listen more about what the president said...

>> it was time to be honest with the american people again. we know longer had a clear purpose in an open-ended mission in afghanistan. after 20 years in afghanistan, i refuse to send another generation of americas sons and daughters to fight a war that should have ended long ago. after more than $2 trillion spent in afghanistan, what brown university estimated with be over $300 million a day for two decades -- yes, the american people should hear this, $300 million a day for two decades. >> wev...

>> today america can regain the sense of pride that existed before vietnam, but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as america is concerned. [ cheers and applause ] as i see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nations wounds and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence. >> so thats what he said. when the evacuation was still going on in vietnam. here is some of the chaos that happened just in th...