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_Published 2015-06-18. 'The Seventies' Clip: The POWs Return_


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## Transcript

As far as this administration is concerned, we've done the very best that we can against very great obstacles, and we finally have achieved a peace with honor. I know it gagged some of you to write that phrase, but that is true. And most Americans realize it is true. It is the Americans who are celebrating. They are leaving. The Vietnamese are not celebrating. They must stay and face the uncertainty of whatever is going to happen to them next. In Hanoi, the American military involvement in the Vietnam War finally came to an end. For if anything, or anyone symbolized the American agony of Vietnam it was the prisoners.

Most were pilots and many had spent more than six years in prison. Now they were on their way home. It wasn't really until we rolled down the runway. finally lifted off. [ UNKNOWN ] that we all broke loose and started hugging and kissing the Airforce nurses. [ LAUGH ] And those were the first women that we saw and it was all euphoria. [ UNKNOWN ] gathered in the den to watch the arrival of the planes from Philippines, there was no word as to which of the three planes Lieutenant [ UNKNOWN ] would be on The first one landing but it was [ UNKNOWN ], then came the second plane. Someone in the family said I bet he won't be on this one either.

Here's the door opening. But he was. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ NOISE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ NOISE ]

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