James good evening. I hope you will excuse all of this, but i have been taking time off from my job to look into something important to all of us that seems to be confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not so long ago. It is not a simple question, and i couldnt get him a simple answer. That is the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that weve got to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes add to our deterrence strengths, and why we have developed them and what they do. I would like to tell you what i wish i had been able to tell that fellow in london not very long ago. Some of you may remember i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. That was back when the air force inventory was a relatively simple one. There were longrange heavy bombers like this one. I flew one of these, a b24. This is some
That was the first time we started seeing the replay of the second tower getting hit. The motion of the airplane hitting the tower and the explosion burned into everyones memory, that is the first time the president saw it. Right after that moment when dan bartlett alerted everyone in the room, he said look at the tv and we saw it. Everyone was stunned in silence because we had never seen it. We heard what had happened. To me, that is the critical moment the president visually could connect what really happened. Just that second later, the president turned to see that image for the first time. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. With a series of north Korean Missile tests in the news recently, we decided to look back at the development of missiles and bombers in the United States. America, the air force missile mission. Appearing in his Beverly Hills home library, Academy Awardwinning actor and world
World war ii service in a b24 liberator, was promoted in 1959 to Brigadier General in the u. S. Air force reserve, and flew a 1966 vietnam bombing mission. This is about 24 minutes. James good evening. I hope you will excuse all of this, but i have been taking time off from my job to look into something that concerns all of us. That seems to be pretty well confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not so long ago. It is not a simple question, and i couldnt get him a simple answer. That is the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that weve got to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes add to our deterrence strengths, and why we have developed them and what they do. I would like to tell you what i wish i had been able to tell that fellow in london not very long ago. Some of you may remember i was
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Good evening. I hope youll excuse all this. But ive been taking some time off from my job to look into something important to all of us. That seems to be pretty well confused. What i mean is missiles, High Performance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not very long ago. You know, its not a simple question. And i couldnt give him a simple answer and thats the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that weve got to understand just what were building, how each of these missiles and airplanes add to our deterrent strength and why weve developed them and what they do. Id like to tell you what i wish id been able to tell that fellow in london not very long ago. Some of you may remember i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. That was back in the air force inventories was a relatively simple one. There was long range heavy bombers like this one. I flew one of these. Old b24. As a matter