○ cambodian incursion address ○
in this room, woodrow wilson made the great decisions which led to victory in world war i. franklin roosevelt made the decisions which led to our victory in world war ii. dwight d. eisenhower made decisions which ended the war in korea and avoided war in the middle east. john f. kennedy, in his finest hour, made the great decision which removed soviet nuclear missiles from cuba and the western hemisphere.
i have noted that there’s been a great deal of discussion with regard to this decision that i have made. and i should point out i do not contend that it is in the same magnitude as these decisions that i have just mentioned. but between those decisions and this decision, there is a difference that is very fundamental. in those decisions the american people were not assailed by counsels of doubt and defeat from some of the most widely known opinion leaders of the nation.
i have noted, for example, that a republican senator has said that this action i have taken means that my party has lost all chance of winning the november elections. and others are saying today that this move against enemy sanctuaries will make me a one-term president.
no one is more aware than i am of the political consequences of the action i have taken. it is tempting to take the easy political path, to blame this war on previous administrations, and to bring all of our men home immediately -- regardless of the consequences, even though that would mean defeat for the united states; to desert 18 million south vietnamese people who have put their trust in us; to expose them to the same slaughter and savagery which the leaders of north vietnam inflicted on hundreds of thousands of north vietna
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