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for We have been told by Cabinet officers and commentators by journalists and citizens that America is deep in a Malays of spirit and dividing Americans from one another by their age, their views on the color of their skins. We have fought great wars, made unprecedented sacrifices

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at home and abroad, made prodigious efforts to achieve personal and national wealth. Yet we ourselves are uncertain of what we have achieved and whether we like what we have accomplished now. Demonstrators shout down government officials and the government drafts protesters. Anarchist threatened to burn the country

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down, and some have begun to try. While tanks of patrol, American cities and machine guns have been fired at American Children, a poet proclaims, the throat cutting time is drawing nigh and we're gonna be ready. While the National Guard general speaks calmly of plans to use

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heavy weapons in the city of New York, our young people turn from the Peace Corps on public commitment of the early 19 sixties. Two lives of disengagement and sometimes despair, turned on with drugs and turning off from America. Truly, we seem to fulfill the vision of

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Yates. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The issue for us is whether we will live is an island in the midst of a hostile world community, or whether we will be joined with other independent nations in search of

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common goals. I thought that we should take that step, particularly, is Secretary McNamara testified before various congressional committees that the bombing of the North was not going to force the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Secondly, which was most important and most significant, he stated that

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the bombing of the North does not stop the North from supplying whatever men and materials they need into the cell. It makes it more difficult for them. It makes it more costly for them, but they can still do. They can send down whatever man of material

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they need in the South. So I felt that based on that and particularly when the request for the succession of the bombing was not a permanent succession of the bombing, that we should stop the bombing, that we should go to the negotiating table and see if

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we could resolve the conflict. I have never heard a unanswered to that