Nixon: We need heroes, Bob. The country needs heroes. You know, it’s a curious way…
Hope: They got ‘em now, haven’t they?
Nixon: These are heroes, aren’t they?
More »Nixon: We need heroes, Bob. The country needs heroes. You know, it’s a curious way…
Hope: They got ‘em now, haven’t they?
Nixon: These are heroes, aren’t they?
Hope: Oh boy!
Nixon: And, and the way, too…Can you imagine if they had come back, if we had simply…peaceniks had suggested, gotten them back for a bugout. They wouldn’t come back proud and saluting. They’d come back a little bit disgraced…but now they came back to a country that…with honor, you know? Don’t you agree?
Hope: Oh, my God!
Nixon: You know, makes…you know after all the business you and I have taken through the years, makes you feel pretty good doesn’t it?
Hope: Oh boy! Oh, it’s a thrill. It’s just a thrill.
Nixon: And the main thing is, apart from, apart from the personal thing Bob, it’s so good for the country. The country could not lose this war. We had to win it.
Hope: What they did for this country you know. And It emulates from you, your strength, you know, your strength and how right you were.
Nixon: If you could talk, Bob, to these people about…dammit, let’s be proud, not only the POWs but proud of the two and a half million guys that served out there. These men, you know, it was a tough war and the rest. Be proud the United States came out with the flag highing fly…I think, you know like that the idea, you know, I put the flag up you know today. Mrs. Johnson agreed.
Hope: Right.
Nixon: But I think the flag is flying high. Let’s say that okay? Our enemies respect us. Our allies now trust us.
Hope: Isn’t that something?
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