1:08:00
''And don't say nothin' about it,
'cause we don't want to hear about it...
1:08:03
'cause it's upsetting
around dinnertime.''
1:08:05
Well, Goddamn. It upset me
for a whole goddamn year.
1:08:07
It upset a lot of people to the point
where they're fuckin' dead, you know?
1:08:10
All this shit. You don't wanna
hear about it? I'll tell you every day.
1:08:13
Make you sit out
and puke on your dinner, you dig?
1:08:15
Because you got me over there,
and now you done brought me back here...
1:08:18
and you wanna forget it so somebody else
can go do it somewhere else.
1:08:22
Hell no. Uh-uh.
You gonna hear it all.
1:08:24
Every day as long as you live, because
it's gonna be with me as long as I live.
1:08:28
When I get up in the morning,
when John gets up,
1:08:30
when a lot of dudes sitting here get up,
1:08:32
man, their gut hurts
because they got shot there.
1:08:35
I gotta put on an arm and a leg,
'cause it ain't there no more, you dig?
1:08:38
Now, my man's got a hole in his stomach.
He can't work right, you know?
1:08:41
You do something about that.
Make that all disappear, you dig?
1:08:45
Make it all go away with the 6:00 news.
1:08:47
Turn it off or switch it
to another channel.
1:08:49
Uh-Uh. To hell with that, you dig?
It's here and it's for real.
1:08:53
And it's gonna happen again
unless these folks get off their ass...
1:08:56
and realize it has happened.
1:08:58
**Power to the people **
1:09:01
**Power to the people ****
1:09:04
The country is ready to pass
a reasoned judgment on this war.
1:09:08
The people have judged, I think,
that it's unwise and immoral...
1:09:12
and not in the national interest
of this country...
1:09:15
and that, therefore,
it must be brought to an end.
1:09:18
[Cheering, Applause]
1:09:22
For 20 years, first the French,
and then the United States...
1:09:25
had been predicting victory in Vietnam.
1:09:29
In 1961and in 1962,
1:09:32
as well as 1966 and 1967,
1:09:35
we have been told
that the tide is turning,
1:09:38
there is a light
at the end of the tunnel,
1:09:40
we can soon bring our troops home,
1:09:43
victory is near, the enemy is tiring.
1:09:46
Once, in 1962,
1:09:48
I participated
in such a prediction myself.
1:09:53
But for 20 years,
we have been wrong.
1:09:56
The history of conflict
among nations...
1:09:59
does not record another such lengthy
and consistent chronicle of error...