Hearts and Minds
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- 1974
- 112 min
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When the Second World War was over, we
were the one great power in the world.
The Soviets had a substantial
military machine,
but they could not
touch us in power.
We had this enormous force
that had been built up.
We had the greatest
fleet in the world.
We'd come through the
war economically sound.
And I think that, in addition to
feeling a sense of responsibility,
we also began to feel...
the-the sense of a world power,
that possibly we could control
the future of the world.
limited to our own country.
We extend it to all the
peoples of the world.
Military action in Indochina.
French regulars land along the coast
in search of roving communist bands.
For France, it represents
a tremendous sacrifice...
of manpower and
financial resources.
Without American help,
the burden would be too great.
I do not expect that there is going to
be a communist victory in Indochina.
I affirm that Secretary Dulles...
offered me two atomic bombs.
Two, uh...
Neither one, neither three. Two.
If Indochina goes, several
The Accra Peninsula, the little bit
of end hanging on down there...
would be scarcely defensible.
The tin and the tungsten...
We don't see the end of the
tunnel, but, uh, I must say...
I don't think it's darker than it was a
year ago, in some ways lighter. Yes?
So we must be ready
to fight in Vietnam,
but the ultimate victory
will depend upon the hearts...
and the minds of the people
who actually live out there.
Throughout the war in Vietnam,
the United States has exercised
a degree of restraint...
unprecedented in the annals of war.
There was just one thing,
one small word that enabled
myself and my buddies...
to stay alive those many years.
That one thing was faith.
Faith in my family,
my God and my country.
I remembered high school.
I remembered playing sports there.
And I can remember
my coach saying...
"When the going gets tough,
the tough get going,
Why did I go to Vietnam?
I will have to go back to 1965,
when I was 22 years old.
At that time, communism was once
again trying to muscle its way...
into a free country.
That would assert that there's a
majority of people in that country...
that want to be communist.
Why do they need us then?
Because they were subjected to,
uh, military attack from outside.
Uh, the, uh...
- You really want me to go into this?
- Yes.
I mean... I mean, you know,
we really got to go back to...
You just want me to go back
to the origins of this thing then.
All right, I'll do it, but this is
pretty pedestrian stuff, I must say,
at this late stage of the game.
Honestly it is.
I'll do it. All right.
- There's disagreement about the origins.
- No, there's not.
No, there's not. There's no doubt.
All right, I'll answer your question,
you can throw away that tape.
I didn't expect to have to go back
to this kind of sophomoric stuff,
but I'll do it.
The problem, uh, began, uh,
in its present phase,
after the Sputnik,
the launch of the Sputnik
in 1957, October.
This opened a phase
of not well-coordinated,
but universally optimistic and
hopeful communist enterprise...
in many parts of the world.
Renewed hostile actions...
against United States ships on the
high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin...
have today required me to order
military forces of the United States...
to take action in reply.
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