Johnson On Vietnam: Vows To fight On Until Reds Parley
Johnson On Vietnam: Vows To fight On Until Reds Parley
President Johnson reaffirms United States policy in South Vietnam in a talk to the Association of American Cartoonists. These social satirists hear the President describe Red China as a hungry tiger ready to devour all of Asia, using North Vietnam as a cat's paw to its own aggressive ends. Washington DC The White House, either late spring or early summer. President Johnson walks into a room filled with cartoonists and steps up to the podium. Newsmen taking down notes. President Johnson, "Their target is not merely South Vietnam, it is Asia. Their objective is not the fulfillment of Viennese nationalist. It is to erode and to discredit America's ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia. In this domination they shall never succeed and I am continuing and I am increasing the search for every possible path for peace." Vietnam A farm worker walking with two pots or buckets hanging from her shoulders, in one pot she has a basket. Cattle grazing. Wide Angle - Rural village. High Angle - Oxen pulling a wagon driven by a man who lives in the village. River with fishermen in boats. High Angle - Busy street in North Vietnam, busses, cars, people on bikes etc. A church in the middle of this Vietnam town. Washington DC President Johnson speech, "It will be there when peace comes to us and so will we. Not with soldiers and planes, not with bombs and bullets, but with all the wondrous weapons of peace in the twentieth century. And then perhaps together, all of the people in the world, can share that gracious task with all the people of Vietnam. North and South a like."