| Lodge Returns: Reports To Johnson, Resigns as Envoy | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1725 |
| Catalog #: | 425281 | |
| Clip Number: | 425281-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 037-052-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:20:13 - 00:22:22 | |
| Location: | Washington, DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1964 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Lodge, Henry Cabot PERSONALITIES: Taylor, General Maxwell WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Misc. | |
| Description: | "U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge returns to Washington and ends his duties after 10 months in that strife-torn Southeast Asian nation. He has some straightforward comments on both Vietnam and his own political position." LS/TLSs U.S. military transport plane taxiing on runway. MS Ambassador to South Vietnam HENRY CABOT LODGE JR. and wife alighting plane. MS Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. posing on tarmac with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. General MAXWELL D. TAYLOR. CU Ambassador Lodge. MSs Amb. Lodge talking with people on tarmac. MSs Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speaking with reporters, answering question about whether or not Vietnam should be an issue in the upcoming Presidential campaign: "Generally speaking, any manner of public policy is subject to debate. I don't happen to see how it's practical to make into a political issue." He says he has no plans to talk w/ Sen. Barry Goldwater. A reporter asks if he will allow himself to be drafted if there is deadlock at the GOP convention. "I cannot be drafted. I didn't have to resign this post, which interests me very much, in order to come back & connive to be nominated. What I said, I mean. I resigned to come back & help Governor Scanton b/c I think it's a tremendously important duty for one who has given much time & attention to the Republican party as I have." Question - Would you take a Sherman, would you refuse to serve? Lodge, "I would, I cannot be drafted, I would not...Yes, I cannot be drafted. I don't think anybody wants to draft me, incidentally." | |
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