Nixon, Kissinger & Ziegler on Vietnam War and POWs

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Thank you.

We'll be right back.

They have fully put themselves behind.

Thank you.

Why did you say we should have had something like that?

It wasn't 28, 50 days after that.

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Today is our day of last night here.

We are headed to North Middletown.

I know I say it straight, but I have to say it.

It's in a little bacon form today, but essentially that is what we are going to do.

So now, this is from Parker.

This is from Parker.

We don't want to have that in office

But he's dead.

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All right.

The revolution has begun.

I would be surprised if it went south by the end of the day.

Maybe it would save the government.

I mean, if we refuse to proceed with the fight.

Thank you.

Let me ask you

I don't know.

I don't care if they don't get it today, then I'll do it tomorrow.

But if you're doing things today, I'm assuming now.

Doesn't that make any difference what you say in these things?

You've been talking 80 to 90 times, 40 to 90 every day.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Well, I want you to wait for tomorrow.

Because then, I can't wait for tomorrow to explain to you everything.

And then tomorrow, if they're not released, I know they're going to go on to the sub-state.

But I would make the destination today.

So I don't, I mean, I won't invent it on this farm.

I was sitting here thinking about it, and I thought, that's the best thing to do.

You see the door out of the door, it's the old story, you know, like, the head of the office said, the hell with having a press company, the rest of the press, I mean, the head of the office, they're very responsible.

You know, I started working for the first time.

I'd go out and plan, plan, plan.

I'd portion it out.

I'd figure out what to say.

I was like, tomorrow I came soon.

Tomorrow I came a little soon.

I was like, great, because you've got the motor on.

and always however

I mean, I, I don't care, the only thing I think water is good for, water is a light sweeping thing in the public space.

But if water is something I'm afraid of,

I don't think it's necessary

I don't even know what I'm buying here.

I think this relates to much here.

And when that should be done, I mean, you should send a message indicating that my faith is strong.

There's nothing else we can do.

We can't come up with any good stuff.

Thank you.

And that certainly can't be an answer.

I wouldn't know about that.

You know, you can say they're a green thing.

They're putting in the stocks they had been thought of.

They're getting way further.

They're getting ready for the festival, and they're not the only ones who are getting ready for that.

They're not the only ones who are getting ready for that.

And they're not the ones who are getting ready for that.

uh...

Bye.

And we're not going to, we're not having to say that because our blood circle is that much.

And we're just going to have to try to do what we can.

And I'll wait.

See?

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

I'm sorry.

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Just for background material on this.

We have already released 5,000 students.

It's all been released, 5,000 students.

But we have a lot of major issues.

Remember when I said that they had put a linking thing in, and it didn't even seem to exist?

After October, that was what we were talking about.

They tried to link it.

They released the specimen, and saw the number, but they could not agree to that.

They didn't want to help us out.

Now that you're trying to go back to that life, if you think you're trapped in one of those things, you're going to serve God.

Otherwise, it might go up.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah.

um

There were some other places.

I agree.

Yeah.

I was thinking that...

I've never met him.

I've never saw him before.

I'm afraid to think of the art of training.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

No, what is that one?

I don't think so.

and the U.S. compliance with the ceasefire, Vietnam, which I'm sure you've been involved with, and the U.S. compliance with the financial situation.

They try to bring in Laos and Cambodian, but it's not the same.

They've got Laos and Cambodian, and it has the Laotian parties.

The Laotian parties, the Cambodian parties, and it's not the same.

They've got the entire set up from that.

I don't know.

in terms of risk control schedules for many of the matters.

Well, it would stand in the way of what else would be in the way of the court justifying it.

But, you know, I mean, I guess we're brave enough to work with it, but what if everyone else is still in the way of their case?

Well, that's quite a

I don't know if that's something you could, but the horror in itself is so emotional.

I hate white men.

So I hop on the other end of it, and I say to the gentleman next to me, I'm going to do a simple stroke, and I'm going to stretch it out, and I'm going to move it down.

And then I'm going to move it, and I'm going to stretch it out, and I'm going to move it down.

And I'm going to stretch it out, and I'm going to move it down.

I don't know.

I'm going to ask Dean.

Well, I thought, I didn't answer your question.

I thought you had such an important question that I should sit down and answer it.

I don't know.

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We've got to get to that.

Uh, on schedule.

Uh, second.

Uh, this report, this report is from, uh, it's not made, I mean, quite honestly, it's not, it has not been made by the Department of Defense, uh, that, uh, they, uh,

I don't know about the colonel, the colonel of the nation, but just so that we know this understanding on this point, whatever, about our position, the position we have made.

Okay, I guess it's out there.

Actually, this is going to be a good call.

Okay.

You know, they all, they all, you know, get out, you know, and they, and the rest of them, you know, but, uh, what did you think?

it's not

.

I've never seen that before in my life.

I mean, if you could take a full year course in the universe, it would be special.

I mean, I can't keep up.

It's a festival.

and just to let them know that they were wrong.

And it struck someone like me that wasn't that harsh on people in this area.

You know, you hear someone talk about it and you're like, wait, no, the Lord hasn't been harsh on me.

You know, there's personalities, you know.

But that's not the type of question that we tell them.

Sure, sure, sure.

Well, after all, we all have that problem.

They, they, it's been so high of a rally over the last 10 years, and they're basically, the people that make this argument are all in Kansas City, and they're killing people, right?

They're the high of a rally.

What are your people going to do?

The show's done nothing.

Well, good ice to get in one line if it comes up.

And that is that, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh,

uh uh

must be in

Yeah, I don't think so.

There you go.

But that's the point.

The point here is, well, Shabbat is over, and now we're looking around.

What are you looking around for?

Look around.

I'm not sure.

Well, you could say that now we have this.

You know, another interesting thing you might say that I was planning.

I don't mean very murder, but I had a thing locked up, but I didn't think anything was murderous.

But I think another thing you could say, like, I don't know, for 40 years...

I'm primarily obsessed with the discussion of the division of the debate about war.

Now, when the war is over, I think about the division of the debate in the country of the states, what we call the speech of the

uh now and at the present time

You have arguments about depression.

You have arguments about the role of government.

You have arguments about the press and so forth.

But it's, you know, the press believes that it's much better to have debates about that than about the law.

I had some work to do.

This is why I'm impressed by the writer.

Honestly, many of them said,

There's no one.

The problem of one other thing I want to bring in, women come to me and come to me and say,

Well, in the end of the day, my theory about all this stuff

Now, let's explain the rhetoric, which is very important.

Now, this is concerned with everything else in this book, but let's say it's funny.

I said, if it's fun, it's the fighting that I'm going to be in the rest of my life.

First, we're not going to put that fighting in there.

Well, as a second question, this kind of statement will highly escalate this matter.

The Canadian version is that there will be no horizon for that, and that if necessary, I'll make

But what I think, and I may have to ultimately work together, is that life, I think, is more important than anything.

I don't know if you're going to tell me that, Mr. Smith.

When Grawl came about here, like, as a ceasefire by the U.S., what happened to my quarterback?

Now, that doesn't mean that the minds of the U.S. are all the same.

What's the worst part about that?

Well, you're quite a strong patient.

You can see what their minds are.

Just don't.

Don't.

Yeah, of course, I'm talking about guts, but how much do we have to create?

And they thought it was enough.

That's what the Harris pool suggested.

People are more assertive.

If you go out and ask someone, they're more assertive.

Harris makes sense.

I've always been hung up on the liberal agenda, which is, I can ask anybody, are you for more money for school kids?

Are you for more money for hospital care?

Are you for more money for the city?

Yes.

Are you for increasing their taxes?

No.

Are you for increasing their prices?

No.

And Harris, I just showed that to you from there.

It's the same thing all over again.

In that context,

There is a program that is committed to reminding everyone of this.

It's also important for the compatriots not to concern about a Harris Bowl that's in its own store while the Harris Bowl is on.

But the Harris Bowl, in any case, learned the bottom line.

One, two, three.

Well, knowing our people, one of the things I would say, I would say I'm a little bit

What I'm getting at was, when I think of the middle summary, ten victims have a maximum assumption.

Otherwise, it tends to give disproportionate emphasis to both the negative and the positive, and to basically the columnist kind of thing.

What I think really needs to happen is the reporting.

In other words, what the wire service has said and what the, uh, what the networks have said.

And I think we should be attempting to drive some people on and over.

And because no matter how hard you seek to try to balance it with right and left, it's going to end up with more of the emphasis on, you know,

But they have so much of that kind of a thing there.

They don't get it.

We'll go to them.

I think that's something.

Of course, if you have a pen, put it in.

Then people can put it in and realize, well, here, here's a pen.

It's kind of like, I always have one of the no's for the pen.

Let's face it, you know, only one-tenth of the speaker readers read editorial papers.

One-tenth of them.

They read the Brown Pages, the Smarter Pages, the Banass Pages, the Society Pages, the Editorial Pages.

Only one-hundredth of them read the content.

Now, why the hell would we sit here and punish ourselves like we should wait?

And for that matter, it can't be right.

We can't bring it on.

It's the same.

It's just an actual attack.

I can't believe it.

I don't know.

I can't believe it.

I don't know.

We have a, you know, the discipline of the man, you know.

So I don't, I don't just, you know, but I think you have to realize that we, the nationals, we don't have to trust the discipline of God.

When they weren't born at that time, I don't know if they were.

If anyone wants to know what I'm doing, they are going to come out and be friends with me.

I said that was simple.

I said that I was planning to build a hat.

I said that I was going to build a helmet.

Uh, in dealing with this, I think it's much better than I agreed.

In dealing with everything, it's not resolved.

I don't want to be out to deal with it.

I don't want that to continue to break.

So, you know, we're kind of going to start a depression tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

Nixon, Kissinger & Ziegler on Vietnam War and POWs

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