1:29:06
Why, General,
what's happened?
1:29:12
One last gift
to an old warrior.
1:29:20
My fellow Americans, tonight
we face a serious situation.
1:29:24
On the advice of the best
military minds I could muster,
1:29:27
I have decided to commit United States ground forces
to the Korean peninsula.
1:29:32
We are not at war.
1:29:34
Acting in concert with
our United Nations allies,
1:29:36
we are engaged in a police
action to counteract...
1:29:39
a bandit raid into South Korea
by North Korean Communists.
1:30:17
Would you like to use
my binoculars, sir?
1:30:20
No, thank you.
1:30:22
I've seen all
I have to see.
1:30:25
General,
what happens next, sir?
1:30:28
My father was asked
that same question...
1:30:30
when he found himself
surrounded in the Civil War.
1:30:33
He said, "The situation
is simple and apparent.
1:30:37
"The enemy is closing on me
from three sides,
1:30:40
and my plan
is to fight like hell. "
1:30:43
Now with the threat
of annihilation temporarily forestalled,
1:30:46
MacArthur pays a worried visit
to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
1:30:50
leader of the Nationalist
Chinese on Formosa.
1:30:54
Son of a bitch, that's a goose step
they're doing.
1:30:56
Here it is felt the
foundation is being constructed...