Innocence. He talked about the state of the vietnam war and actions in the white house for the antiwar protestest. First president nixon in a white house address a few days earlier. In blatent retaliation, and they are occupied by north vietnamese forces. Once enemy forces are driven out, and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw. These actions are in no way directed to the security interests of any nation. Any government that chooses to use these actions is a pretext for harming relations will be doing so on its own responsibility and on its own initiative and we will draw the appropriate conclusions. Now let me give you the reasons for my decision. A majority of the American People, a majority of you listening to me, are for the withdrawal of our forces from vietnam. The action that we have taken tonight is indispensable. A majority of the American People want to end this war rather than to have it it drag on. The action that i have taken tonight will serve tha
Neutrality. This is not an invasion of cambodia. The areas in which these attacks will be launched are completely occupied and controlled by north vietnamese forces. Our purpose is not to occupy the areas. Once enemy forces are driven out of these sankfrng ai areas, we withdraw. These actions are in no way directed to the securitien intere security interests of any nation. Now let me give you the reasons for my decision. A majority of the American People, a majority of you listening to me are for the withdrawal of our forces from vietnam. The action i have taken tonight is indispensable for the continuing success of that withdrawal program. A majority of the American People want to end this war rather than to have it drag on. The action i have taken tonight will serve that purpose. A majority of the American People want to keep the casualties of our brave men in vietnam at a minimum. The action i take tonight is essential if we are to accomplish that goal. We take this action not for t
On line at booktv. Org. All right. My name is terry irving, and if you see im the second name here. The book were talking about is on the front lines of the Television War which is by tony hirashiki. I edited it from a mixture of japanese and english into [audio difficulty] but its really not my book. So im going to to try to be reading tonys book most of the time. And over here we have one of people he worked with a friend of tonys. Drew pearson, who if, be you can see this, thats tony and drew [laughter] and i said whats going on behind you . Its not a very interesting shot. He said theres 3,000 tanks coming over the hill behind them. [laughter] over here. He said, yeah, he said that was the one he thought this is what its going to feel like to get shot. And were going to talk about Television Cameramen, because television, this book is my revenge. Because i dont think tv cameramen got a fair shake on what they did. I mean, they brought the Television News to your, to your living roo
And my book, this time we win. A question i frequently get is where did you get this title, this time we win . Actually, it came from vietnam veterans. I would talk to them about what i was doing and say im writing a book on the tet offensive, and many times they would say, do we win this time . Hence the title, this time we win. It goes along with the other old cliche that you hear from the vets, that we were winning when i left, they say. So, yeah, part of the reason i wrote the book was to try to get the truth out about what happened in vietnam, and to honor the men and women who won that war for us, before the politicians threw it away. You frequently see tet in the headlines these days. Wherever anything bad happens in the world, terrorists do some kind of attack, insurgents have some kind of spectacular bombing or something, youll see a pundit or a commentator say, this is just like the tet offensive. Iraq, afghanistan, wherever. I saw a headline about tet referring to northern m
And oftentimes argue on the floor. There is not much of they can do in changing the legislation. The house works by numbers more so than the senate. Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber and even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things for you my distinguished colleague, for example instead of you rotten s. O. B. That is part of parliamentary procedure and style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don Thomas Jefferson wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues pre members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives and not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of the koran. I remember senator robert byrd who epi