Since World War II, this Nation has met and has mastered many challenges—challenges in Greece and Turkey, in Berlin, in Korea, in Cuba. He even goes on to say that, had the U.S. not intervened, Communism would dominate Southeast Asia and bring the world closer to a Third World War. The loss of South Vietnam would set in motion a crumbling process that could, as it progressed, have grave consequences for us and for freedom .... " The Los Angeles speech, called “The Casualties of the War in Vietnam,” stressed the history of the conflict and argued that American power should be “harnessed to the service of peace and human beings, not an inhumane power [unleashed] against defenseless people” (King, 25 February 1967). On 4 April, accompanied by Amherst College Professor Henry Commager, Union Theological Seminary President John Bennett, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at an event sponsored by Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, King spoke to over 3,000 at New York’s Riverside Church. Yet the speech looks beyond the Vietnam war and asks us to consider the wrong of war itself. The President of the Philippines had this to say: Johnson quotes Southeast Asian leaders who agree that the U.S. presence is integral to preventing the malevolent spread of communism. Vietnam is also the scene of a powerful aggression that is spurred by an appetite for conquest. And so I report to you that we are going to continue to press forward. 1. [sustained applause] Five: Set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam in accordance with the 1954 Geneva Agreement. In Massimo Teodori, ed., The New Left: A Documentary History (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), 246-48. The Row of Dominoes explanation. Martin Luther King’s Speech Against the Vietnam War. And that job is going to be done. "Vietnam is the focus of attention now ....It may happen to Thailand or the Philippines, or anywhere, wherever there is misery, disease, ignorance....For you to renounce your position of leadership in Asia is to allow the Red Chinese to gobble up all of Asia." Our casualties in the war have reached about 13,500 killed in action, and about 85,000 wounded. They are a mixture of political turmoil—of poverty—of religious and factional strife—of ancient servitude and modern longing for freedom. For I can assure you they won't. There is progress in the war itself, steady progress considering the war that we are fighting; rather dramatic progress considering the situation that actually prevailed when we sent our troops there in 1965; when we intervened to prevent the dismemberment of the country by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese. © Copyright 2021. In January 1961 John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as United States president, after his narrow victory over Richard Nixon the previous November. Since our commitment of major forces in July 1965 the proportion of the population living under Communist control has been reduced to well under 20 percent. President Barack Obama during Memorial Day at The Wall 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during Visit to Vietnam July 10, 2012: It has been said that they killed more civilians in 4 weeks trying to keep them from voting before the election than our American bombers have killed in the big cities of North Vietnam in bombing military targets. so many ask me. But I do know there are North Vietnamese troops in Laos. For those who have borne the responsibility for decision during these past m years, the stakes to us have seemed clear—and have seemed high. Here’s a collection of short speeches on Vietnam war. HOME. Let him not think that debate and dissent will produce wavering and withdrawal. These gallant men have our prayers-have our thanks—have our heart-felt praise—and our deepest gratitude. The campaigns of the last year drove the enemy from many of their major interior bases. Both the Washington Post and New York Times published editorials criticizing the speech, with the Post noting that King’s speech had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, to his country, and to his people” through a simplistic and flawed view of the situation (“A Tragedy,” 6 April 1967). Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) The Court ruled that students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War was “pure speech,” or symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. Robert F. Kennedy, the heir to Camelot, for the first time delivered a speech attacking the administration’s dissembling about Vietnam. But the price of not having made them at all, not having seen them through, in my judgment would have been vastly greater. Two things we must do. The speech was drafted from a collection of volunteers, including Spelman professor Vincent Harding and Wesleyan professor John Maguire. The price of these efforts, of course, has been heavy. King followed with an historical sketch outlining Vietnam’s devastation at the hands of “deadly Western arrogance,” noting, “we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor” (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 146; 153). But the struggle remains hard. I do not have to tell you that our people are profoundly concerned about that struggle. In my opinion, for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of South Vietnam, but Southeast Asia. It has been—and it is now—peace. War is never a solution to any problem. The immediate response to King’s speech was largely negative. The Revolutionary War era featured numerous restrictions on free speech and free press.Those who were considered loyal to the King of England – loyalists – were subject to a host of onerous restrictions by colonial leaders. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was beginning to have serious misgivings about the … "We are not going to withdraw from that effort. More than 2 million Vietnamese civilians lost their life in addition to 110000+ Vietnamese troop’s loss. And braver men have never lived than those who carry our colors in Vietnam at this very hour. In his opening lines he made clear the principle that would guide his policy and his strategy: A Gallup Poll taken soon after the speech revealed that more than twice as many people approved of the new President’s handling of the situation in Vietnam than disapproved. First, are the Vietnamese—with our help, and that of their other allies—really making any progress? —They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. The Vietnam War witnessed assaults on free speech in many dimensions. President Richard Nixon Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, November 3, 1969. He spent much of the speech explaining the significance of Vietnam to the United States. Tonight the secure proportion of the population has grown from about 45 percent to 65 percent—and in the contested areas, the tide continues to run with us. Thus far the Vietnamese have met the political schedule that they laid down in January 1966. President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a domino effect in Southeast Asia. So we are going to stay there," said President Kennedy. King, “The Casualties of the War in Vietnam,” 25 February 1967, CLPAC. The speech, when I last read it, seemed to have something of the sinewy intelligence and courage that FDR’s speech had. In Kennedy’s inauguration speech he promised American support for nations and societies seeking freedom: “The world is very different now. The South Vietnamese have suffered severely, as have we—particularly in the First Corps area in the north, where the enemy has mounted his heaviest attacks, and where his lines of communication to North Vietnam are shortest. King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 4 April 1967, NNRC. The Prime Minister of Singapore said: Tap to unmute. We abhor the political murder of any state by another, and the bodily murder of any people by gangsters of whatever ideology. The military victory almost within Hanoi's grasp in 1965 has now been denied them. . I do know that there are North Vietnamese trained guerrillas tonight in northeast Thailand. That is the question that the Senate of the United States answered by a vote of 82 to 1 when it ratified and approved the SEATO treaty in 1955, and to which the Members of the United States Congress responded in a resolution that it passed in 1964 by a vote of 504 to 2, "... the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom." King, Statement on voter registration in Alabama, 9 March 1965, MLKJP-GAMK. Dr. King was a civil rights activist and he stood up for what he believed in. At times of crisis—before asking Americans to fight and die to resist aggression in a foreign land—every American President has finally had to answer this question: I am not prepared to risk the security—indeed, the survival—of this American Nation on mere hope and wishful thinking. The Vietnam War, a war pitting Communist North Vietnam and its allies against South Vietnam and its allies, including the United States, lasted from 1955-1975, spanning four different presidents. "We are there because while Communist aggression persists the whole of Southeast Asia is threatened." King, Transformed Nonconformist, Sermon Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 16 January 1966, CSKC. Read each of the passages below, consisting of one speech per president during th… Paul Potter, "The Incredible War": Speech at the Washington Antiwar March (April 17, 1965). King told reporters on Face the Nation that as a minister he had “a prophetic function” and as “one greatly concerned about the need for peace in our world and the survival of mankind, I must continue to take a stand on this issue” (King, 29 August 1965). Into this mixture of subversion and war, of terror and hope, America has entered—with its material power and with its moral commitment. Speeches, Remarks and Transcripts. . Doubt and debate are enlarged because the problems of Vietnam are quite complex. The Riverside Church in the City of New York. And I am going to give you the very best answers that I can give you. Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay, 1942-2016) was outspoken about many political issues, including his opposition to the Vietnam War.. Ali was drafted by the United States military in 1966 and called up for induction in 1967. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. Why? Second, we will provide all that our brave men require to do the job that must be done. This is not simply an American viewpoint, I would have you legislative leaders know. It is one of the great ironies of history, that many of the same political leaders that ratified the U.S. Constituti… And a Communist coup was barely averted in Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. The so-called domino theory dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade. CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to provide viewers with an assessment of the war’s progress. His one-hour special report aired on Feb. 27, 1968. But for many Americans, it is the event most closely associated with Johnson's years in the White House. From many sources the answer is the same. In early 1967 King stepped up his anti-war proclamations, giving similar speeches in Los Angeles and Chicago. King’s Error,” New York Times, 7 April 1967. Protests were rampant, so in this speech Nixon defended his decision to keep U.S. forces in Vietnam and explained why negotiations had failed so far. “A Tragedy,” Washington Post, 6 April 1967. Info. What kind of world are they prepared to live in 5 months or 5 years from tonight? The true peace-keepers in the world tonight are not those who urge us to retire from the field in Vietnam—who tell us to try to find the quickest, cheapest exit from that tormented land, no matter what the consequences to us may be. President Park of Korea said: During that time, each president (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon) made many speeches to the citizens of the United States, attempting to both keep them updated on the situation and assure them that peace was on the horizon. And for 27 years—since the days of lend-lease—we have sought to strengthen free people against domination by aggressive foreign powers. "... withdrawal in the case of Vietnam and the case of Thailand might mean a cob lapse of the entire area." They still hope that the people of the United States will not see this struggle through to the very end. The late President Kennedy put it precisely in November 1961, when he said: "We are neither warmongers nor appeasers, neither hard nor soft. "Strategically, South Vietnam's capture by the Communists would bring their power several hundred miles into a hitherto free region. I know there are other questions on your minds, and on the minds of many sincere, troubled Americans: "Why not negotiate now?" That is the question which Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had to answer in facing the issue in Vietnam. He attended the induction but refused to answer to his name or take the oath. As one Western diplomat reported to me only this week-he had just been in Hanoi—"They believe their staying power is greater than ours and that they can't lose." On November 1, subject to the action, of course, of the Constituent Assembly, an elected government will be inaugurated and an elected Senate and Legislature will be installed. Similarly, both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Ralph Bunche accused King of linking two disparate issues, Vietnam and civil rights. The Prime Minister of Australia said: So it is by Hanoi's choice—and not ours, and not the rest of the world's—that the war continues. The true peace-keepers are the soldiers who are breaking the terrorist's grip around the villages of Vietnam—the civilians who are bringing medical care and food and education to people who have already suffered a generation of war. The remaining countries in Southeast Asia would be menaced by a great flanking movement. I cannot tell you tonight as your President-with certainty—that a Communist conquest of South Vietnam would be followed by a Communist conquest of Southeast Asia. A year later, he reaffirmed that: They are no better suited to judge the strength and perseverance of America than the Nazi and the Stalinist propagandists were able to judge it. “Among Australian speeches, Arthur Calwell’s 1965 speech in which he declared Labor’s opposition to the war in Vietnam stands out. It sharpens the sting of inequality, and by destruction it steals from the poor the lives they have built. Is the aggression a threat—not only to the immediate victim--but to the United States of America and to the peace and security of the entire world of which we in America are a very vital part? To King, however, the Vietnam War was only the most pressing symptom of American colonialism worldwide. Veterans of the Vietnam War, families, friends, distinguished guests. Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. In February 1968, US senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech in Chicago, declaring that the war in Vietnam could not be won militarily: “Our enemy, savagely striking at will across all of South Vietnam, has finally shattered the mask of official illusion with which we have concealed our true circumstances, even from ourselves. I am going to call the roll now of those who live in that part of the world—in the great arc of Asian and Pacific nations—and who bear the responsibility for leading their people, and the responsibility for the fate of their people. Because they won't. Answering press questions after addressing a Howard University audience on 2 March 1965, King asserted that the war in Vietnam was “accomplishing nothing” and called for a negotiated settlement (Schuette, “King Preaches on Non-Violence”). They wanted it strongly enough to brave a vicious campaign of Communist terror and assassination to vote for it. First, we must not mislead the enemy. Speech on Vietnam War The 30 year-long War of Vietnam that started in 1945 changed the scenario of World politics completely. —They mistake a few committees for a country. I want to turn now to the struggle in Vietnam itself. & CU. And President John F. Kennedy said in 1962: The Institute cannot give permission to use or reproduce any of the writings, statements, or images of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chuck, thank you for your words and your friendship and your life of service. But all that we have learned in this tragic century strongly suggests to me that it would be so. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 people in Riverside Church in New York City, King delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in which he stated that the war effort was “taking the young black men who have been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.” To change course, King suggested a five point outline for stopping the war, which included a call for a unilateral ceasefire. O ne of the greatest speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Time to Break Silence," was delivered at Riverside Church, New York City, on April 4, 1967. Our goal has been the same—in Europe, in Asia, in our own hemisphere. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivers a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in … The Vietnam War Commemoration is conducted according to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act to help honor and pay tribute to Vietnam Veterans and their families. King’s address emphasized his responsibility to the American people and explained that conversations with young black men in the ghettos reinforced his own commitment to nonviolence. President Nixon talked to the nation about the prospects for peace in Vietnam. And, soon or late, they will discover them. Some colonies passed laws declaring it treasonous to support the British King. For he won't. Speeches-USA presents The Speech Vault printable speech transcripts. Lyndon B. Johnson's Speech on The Vietnam War 1966http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lbjhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War Let him not think that protests will produce surrender. "For the first time in our history, we decided to dispatch our combat troops overseas... because in our belief any aggression against the Republic of Vietnam represented a direct and grave menace against the security and peace of free Asia, and therefore directly jeopardized the very security and freedom of our own people." —They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. © Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice,” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent means (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 139). King urged instead “a radical revolution of values” emphasizing love and justice rather than economic nationalism (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 157). Of those 85,000 wounded, we thank God that 79,000 of the 85,000 have been returned, or will return to duty shortly. Copy link. We are Americans determined to defend the frontiers of freedom by an honorable peace if peace is possible but by arms if arms are used against us."
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