[indiscernible] he can call superwoman and super dog it wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book gonna pull him off the stand clean up the land gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out with your hands held high drop your guns, reach for the sky aintu surrounded and you got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch yeah ah, yeah, agriculturalm in worker. [applause] lordy, lordy, [laughter] gave me an f. F. Thank you. I needed that. Got himself in a terrible jam way down in vietnam. Put down your books pick up your gun where gonna have a lot of fun what are we fighting for . Me, i dont give a damn aint no time to run under why to wonder why we all gonna die. There is plenty good money to be made supplying the army with the tools of the trade 2, 3, what are we fighting for . Dont ask me, i dont give a damn next up is vietnam open up the
[applause] gave me an m m thank you, i needed that. 2, 3, 4 [laughter] [applause] please welcome to the stage mr. Peter yarrow singersongwriter and political activist and the executive director of the Grammy Museum at l a live joining mr. Country joe mcdonald for our next panel. [applause] well, joe, on behalf of everyone here i want to thank you for exercising your freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Thank you very much. [applause] 50 years. And boy, for those of us who were alive back then and remember that song and remember those days, that was one song that could always get a response going and it did even here. Interesting, huh . Look, every generation has a sound track. Every historical era has a sound track. Every historical moment. Every movement. Music has played a vital part in americas history. Its been there from the revolutionary times and it goes right through our history even today. And almost always the music was creative, expressive, and sometimes controversia
But believe me the people in Washington Square never went on the other side of sixth avenue. At 8 00 p. M. On the presidency every time i look at washington its unanimous. Unanimously commander in chief, unanimously president of the constitutional convention. Unanimously president of the united states, unanimously appointed as the Lieutenant General and commander in chief of all the armies raised or to be raised for the service in the united states. What a record. George washington scholar peter enreekz explores that even though washington was officially retired he continued to meet with political figures from the thu capitol and was often called upon to craft policy. For the complete American History tv weekend schedule, go to cspan. Org. Thursday a discussion on regulating ecigarettes. The American Enterprise institute looks at the legal, legislative and Public Health implications of the fdas plans to regulate the product. See it live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. President obamas
But i made the mental decision, im going to beat this thing. I dont know how long, but i will go home. So i live every day every day is a great day. If you think you have a bad day, let me tell you one day as a p. O. W. I say that humbly. But after we finished this and he asked me about some propaganda material about some battles that had i been in. And i said i have to disagree with you on this one particular battle. You guys didnt win. He looks leans forward and looks at me with all seriousness, oh, no, you have been misled by that Propaganda Machine we have in this country called the free press. Now im 25 and im kind of cocky but in no position to be cocky in that environment and i think to myself, you have got to be kidding me. And that is when it really sunk in. Because they reiterated it later on. Even if something is false, the doctrine, if you repeat it a thousand and one times, it becomes true. And i said to myself, wow. So as a mission before, fighting with them and living wi
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element