But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber...
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Lyndon Baines Johnson:
How many planes will we lose? Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
20 to 25. Lyndon Baines Johnson:
How many casualties? Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
50. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense:
50 to 300 is my estimate, and if the bombs miss, it can go as high as 12,000, with fifty percent of these civilians and fifty percent of those killed. Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets. Lyndon Baines Johnson:
But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber pilot will be a kid from Johnson City, Texas, and that'll be the kid that starts World War III, thank you very much
How many planes will we lose? Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
20 to 25. Lyndon Baines Johnson:
How many casualties? Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
50. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense:
50 to 300 is my estimate, and if the bombs miss, it can go as high as 12,000, with fifty percent of these civilians and fifty percent of those killed. Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets. Lyndon Baines Johnson:
But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber pilot will be a kid from Johnson City, Texas, and that'll be the kid that starts World War III, thank you very much
Full Transcript
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How many planes will we lose
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Twenty to twenty five
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How many casualties
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Fifty
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And if the bombs miss
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it could go as high as 12 000 with 50 of these civilians
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and 50 of those killed
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Of course we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets
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But you do miss sometimes
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And this time you could hit a Russian ship
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and the bomber pilot
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he'll be a kid from Johnson City Texas
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That'll be the kid that starts World War III
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thank you very much
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Movie Summary
In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.
Actors
Robert Mcnamara
