The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be...
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Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler:
The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be almost zero.
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense:
I say 100 to 500, possibly more!
Lyndon Baines Johnson:
Which is it? 500 or zero?
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The bridge is a major target and we've never hit it
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The chance of civilian deaths will be almost zero
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I say one hundred to five hundred possibly more
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Which is it Five hundred or zero
Clip duration: 11 seconds
Views: 81
Timestamp in movie: 02h 04m 56s
Uploaded: 05 December, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, war
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.
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00:16 Mr President the Stennis Committee is up in arms over
00:49 This is a heavily defended target
00:15 Look at him His wife's got an ulcer
00:04 You know Jack I want war like I want polio
00:04 Oh my oh my
00:07 This is your advice
00:06 Call the press together We're goin to Vietnam
00:05 Are they ours
00:07 Weren't you watchin
00:18 The South Vietnamese are useless Mr President
00:38 How many planes will we lose
00:13 They don't need damn trucks
00:33 I can't tell you how grateful
00:11 The bridge is a major target and we've never hit it