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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 didn't 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 from the chaos of the american evacuation from vietnam because no one expected a massive american e...

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 kissinger said in response to a press question, that he had how many americans were left behind, had no i...

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 economic issues, he urged medical students who were listening to find a cure for cancer and he said next ...

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 couldn't use the airport anymore, they used helicopters touching down on the tops of some buildings, which could not bare the weight of the helicopter, so the helicopters had ...

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 nation's wars. so if our general officers who were steeped in military history and strategy can't identify a quagmire in the middle of it, i don...