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[Music] an iron curtain has descended across the continent behind that line by all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe warsaw berlin prague vienna budapest belgrade bucharest and sophia
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[Music] i believe that it must be the policy of the united states to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures i believe that we must assist three peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way
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thousands left for staging areas in the united states before embarking for the korean front with help of this kind plus air contingents and brown forces from other nations the tide seemed to have turned when a brilliant strategic move was made in the amphibious landing at inchon port city of seoul
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the end of the war seemed in sight as the allies pushed north toward the north korean capital of pyongyang then it happened the chinese red armies numbering hundreds of thousands swarmed over the frontier against thinly hailed united nations positions confronted by overwhelming numbers un armies were forced into inevitable retreat
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our failure has been of the spirit not of the arms a bankruptcy of leadership in our american tradition [Music]
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the worst to be feared and the best to be expected can be simply stable the worst is atomic war the best would be this a life of perpetual fear and tension a burden of arms draining the wealth and labor of all people a wasting of strength that defies the american system or the soviet system or any system
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[Music] we've stepped in because the united nations couldn't do so in time until the united nations force is there ready to take over we and the french must go on with the job until the job is done
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foreign [Music] i call upon chairman khrushchev to haul and eliminate this clandestine reckless and provocative threat to world peace and the stable relations between our two nations and to join in an historic effort to end the perilous armed race and to transform the history of man our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right not peace at the expense of freedom but both peace and freedom
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[Music] from dallas texas the flash apparently official president kennedy died at 1pm central standard time vice president lyndon johnson has left the hospital in dallas but we do not know uh to where he has procedures
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despite feeble protestations to the contrary the promises of the great society have been shot down on the battlefield of vietnam
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[Music] i would not hesitate to take strong and effective measures to deal with that situation despite that warning north vietnam has increased its military aggression in all these areas and particularly in cambodia [Music]
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vice president ford this morning as he left his home to to come here for for this occasion said it was indeed one of the saddest incidents that he's ever seen where's the president waving goodbye
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a soviet occupied afghanistan threatens both iran and pakistan and is a stepping stone to possible control over much of the world's oil supplies [Applause] [Music]
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i call upon the scientific community in our country those who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete [Music]
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because after all two world wars have shown us that conventional weapons are not enough to deter war and if we want a war free europe then we must continue to have a nuclear deterrent if you're to deter war if you were to have an effective alliance you don't do it with obsolete weapons therefore you have to modernize [Music]
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[Music] for over 40 years the united states led the west in the struggle against communism this struggle shaped the lives of all americans it forced all nations to live under the specter of nuclear destruction that confrontation is now over [Music] you
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