| PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANSWERS CRITICS ON VIETNAM POLICY | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8966 |
| Catalog #: | 173904 | |
| Clip Number: | 173904-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4137 E | |
| Timecode: | 01:27:26 - 01:29:43 | |
| Location: | Princeton, New Jersey | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Honors, Honary Degree LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New Jersey PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Misc. | |
| Description: | PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANSWERS CRITICS ON VIETNAM POLICY Story about President Lyndon B. Johnson receiving an honorary degree from Princeton University and speaking about US policy in Vietnam. Princeton University, New Jersey, United States of America / USA VS. President Lyndon B. Johnson in cap and gown walks in procession at Princeton University to dedicate a new home to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. MS. President Johnson is awarded Honorary Degree of Law and gets up to make a speech. CU. President Johnson making speech in which he answers critics of his administrations Vietnam policy. Cameramen filming the speech. says "The exercise of power in this century, has meant, for all of us in the United States, not arrogance but agony. We have used our power, not willingly and recklessly, ever, but always reluctantly and with restraint. Surely it is not a paranoid vision of America's place in the world to recognize that freedom is still indivisible. Still has adversaries whose challenge must be answered. Today of course, as we meet here that challenge is sternest at the moment in Southeast Asia. Yet, there as elsewhere, our great power is also tempered by a great restraint. What nation has announced such limited objectives or such willingness to remove its military presence once those objectives are secured and achieved? What nation has spent the lives of its sons and vast sums of its fortunes to provide the people of a small striving country the chance to elect a course that ourselves might not choose." MS. Students of the University clapping the President. | |
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