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[00:06.904]Face the Nation
[00:09.318]Thru Hickman’s rolling earth hills
[00:11.754]icy winter
[00:12.820]grey sky            bare trees lining the road
[00:16.002]South to Wichita
[00:17.785]you’re in the Pepsi Generation       Signum enroute
[00:21.906]Aiken Republican on the radio                60,000
[00:25.837]Northvietnamese troops now infiltrated but over 250,000
[00:31.703]South Vietnamese       armed men
[00:33.986]our Enemy —
[00:35.552]Not Hanoi our enemy
[00:38.020]Not China our enemy
[00:40.503]The Viet Cong !
[00:42.536]McNamara made a “bad guess”
[00:46.088]“ Bad Guess? ” chorused the Reporters.
[00:49.186]Yes, no more than a Bad Guess, in 1962
[00:53.923]“ 8000 American Troops handle the
[00:55.889]Situation ”
[00:57.172]Bad Guess
[00:59.305]in 1954, 80% of the
[01:02.590]Vietnamese people would’ve voted for Ho Chi Minh
[01:05.641]wrote Ike    years later      Mandate for Change
[01:11.325]A bad guess in the Pentagon
[01:14.774]And the Hawks were guessing all along
[01:17.825]
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[01:18.779]Bomb China’s 200,000,000
[01:20.883]cried Stennis from Mississippi
[01:23.469]I guess it was 3 weeks ago
[01:26.018]Holmes Alexander in Albuquerque Journal
[01:29.417]Provincial newsman
[01:31.099]said I guess we better begin to do that Now.
[01:34.933]his typewriter clacking in his aged office
[01:37.384]on a side street    under Sandia Mountain ?
[01:40.568]Half the world away from China
[01:42.952]Johnson got some bad advice Republican Aiken sang
[01:47.734]to the Newsmen over the radio
[01:50.799]The General guessed they’d stop infiltrating the South
[01:54.001]if they bombed the North —
[01:55.949]So I guess they bombed !
[01:58.132]Pale Indochinese boys came thronging thro the jungle
[02:01.334]in increased numbers
[02:03.099]to the scene of TERROR !
[02:04.319]
[02:04.685]15
[02:05.982]While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator
[02:09.034]sat quietly by the side of the road
[02:10.990]along the railroad track
[02:13.266]American Eagle beating its wings over Asia
[02:16.900]million dollar helicopters
[02:19.149]a billion dollars worth of Marines
[02:21.433]who loved Aunt Betty
[02:23.801]Drawn from the shores and farms shaking
[02:27.086]from the high schools to the landing barge
[02:30.036]blowing the air thru their cheeks with fear
[02:32.402]in Life on Television
[02:34.150]
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[02:35.017]Put it this way on the radio
[02:37.684]Put it this way in television language
[02:40.703]Use  the  words
[02:42.034]language, language :
[02:43.784]“ A bad guess ”
[02:46.835]Put it this way in headlines
[02:49.284]Omaha World Herald —  Rusk Says Toughness
[02:54.336]Essential for Peace
[02:57.267]Put it this way
[02:58.301]Lincoln Nebraska morning Star —
[03:01.352]Vietnam War Brings Prosperity
[03:04.719]Put it this way
[03:06.184]Declared McNamara,        speaking language
[03:09.251]Asserted Maxwell Taylor
[03:11.134]General, Consultant to White House
[03:13.818]Vietcong losses leveling up three five zero zero
[03:16.918]per month
[03:18.100]Front page testimony February ’66
[03:21.404]Here in Nebraska same as Kansas same known in Saigon
[03:25.952]in Peking, in Moscow, same known
[03:29.335]by the youths of Liverpool three five zero zero
[03:33.969]the latest quotation in the human meat market —
[03:38.052]Father I cannot tell a lie !
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Face the Nation
Thru Hickman’s rolling earth hills
icy winter
grey sky            bare trees lining the road
South to Wichita
you’re in the Pepsi Generation       Signum enroute
Aiken Republican on the radio                60,000
Northvietnamese troops now infiltrated but over 250,000
South Vietnamese       armed men
our Enemy —
Not Hanoi our enemy
Not China our enemy
The Viet Cong !
McNamara made a “bad guess”
“ Bad Guess? ” chorused the Reporters.
Yes, no more than a Bad Guess, in 1962
“ 8000 American Troops handle the
Situation ”
Bad Guess
in 1954, 80% of the
Vietnamese people would’ve voted for Ho Chi Minh
wrote Ike    years later      Mandate for Change
A bad guess in the Pentagon
And the Hawks were guessing all along
14
Bomb China’s 200,000,000
cried Stennis from Mississippi
I guess it was 3 weeks ago
Holmes Alexander in Albuquerque Journal
Provincial newsman
said I guess we better begin to do that Now.
his typewriter clacking in his aged office
on a side street    under Sandia Mountain ?
Half the world away from China
Johnson got some bad advice Republican Aiken sang
to the Newsmen over the radio
The General guessed they’d stop infiltrating the South
if they bombed the North —
So I guess they bombed !
Pale Indochinese boys came thronging thro the jungle
in increased numbers
to the scene of TERROR !
15
While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator
sat quietly by the side of the road
along the railroad track
American Eagle beating its wings over Asia
million dollar helicopters
a billion dollars worth of Marines
who loved Aunt Betty
Drawn from the shores and farms shaking
from the high schools to the landing barge
blowing the air thru their cheeks with fear
in Life on Television
16
Put it this way on the radio
Put it this way in television language
Use  the  words
language, language :
“ A bad guess ”
Put it this way in headlines
Omaha World Herald —  Rusk Says Toughness
Essential for Peace
Put it this way
Lincoln Nebraska morning Star —
Vietnam War Brings Prosperity
Put it this way
Declared McNamara,        speaking language
Asserted Maxwell Taylor
General, Consultant to White House
Vietcong losses leveling up three five zero zero
per month
Front page testimony February ’66
Here in Nebraska same as Kansas same known in Saigon
in Peking, in Moscow, same known
by the youths of Liverpool three five zero zero
the latest quotation in the human meat market —
Father I cannot tell a lie !