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Caspar Weinberger:
Please be seated. This will be brief, as I'm needed at the Oval Office. I'd like to call your attention to this morning's New York Times. If you'll turn to the editorial page? It essentially says that every weapon we produce is an over-priced piece of junk. Now, that's not news, critics have said it for years. What was news to me touched on our supposedly "spectacular" Sergeant York Anti-Aircraft Gun. It says there that when the Sergeant York proved incapable of hitting airplanes, we test-fired it at hovering helicopters. When it failed to hit hovering helicopters, we test-fired it at stationary targets, and it missed those. Now is this possible, General Keane? Keane:
There was a problem with the proximity fusing. Caspar Weinberger:
According to this, one missile locked on to a ventilation fan in the latrine, and destroyed the latrine! Were we test-firing at latrines that day? Keane:
My First Sergeant was on that latrine at the time, and I can assure you, sir, he's around to swear otherwise... Caspar Weinberger:
Why am I learning about these things in the newspaper? It makes me look foolish, and I am not a foolish man!
Please be seated. This will be brief, as I'm needed at the Oval Office. I'd like to call your attention to this morning's New York Times. If you'll turn to the editorial page? It essentially says that every weapon we produce is an over-priced piece of junk. Now, that's not news, critics have said it for years. What was news to me touched on our supposedly "spectacular" Sergeant York Anti-Aircraft Gun. It says there that when the Sergeant York proved incapable of hitting airplanes, we test-fired it at hovering helicopters. When it failed to hit hovering helicopters, we test-fired it at stationary targets, and it missed those. Now is this possible, General Keane? Keane:
There was a problem with the proximity fusing. Caspar Weinberger:
According to this, one missile locked on to a ventilation fan in the latrine, and destroyed the latrine! Were we test-firing at latrines that day? Keane:
My First Sergeant was on that latrine at the time, and I can assure you, sir, he's around to swear otherwise... Caspar Weinberger:
Why am I learning about these things in the newspaper? It makes me look foolish, and I am not a foolish man!
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This will be brief I'm needed at the Oval Office
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I want to show you this morning's New York Times
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If you'd be so kind to turn to the editorial page
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It essentially says that every weapon we produce is overpriced junk
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Now that's not news Critics have said it for years
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What was news to me
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touched on our supposedly spectacular Sergeant York anti aircraft gun
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It says there when the Sergeant York proved incapable of hitting airplanes
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we test fired it at hovering helicopters
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When it failed to hit hovering helicopters
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Movie Summary
Story of a cover up in the military.
Actors
Colonel James Burton
