LBJ At Princeton: President Urges Scholars Support Foreign Policy
LBJ At Princeton: President Urges Scholars Support Foreign Policy
On the Princeton University campus, President Johnson in cap and gown is at the dedication ceremonies for the new Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The President is awarded an honorary Dr. of Laws Degree and uses his dedication address, to make a firm reply to criticism of his administration s Vietnamese policy. President Johnson in cap and gown walking in with Princeton University scholars. The crowd of well wishers for the graduates graciously applauding the presence of President Johnson. President Johnson is honored holding a Doctorate's of Laws Degree. President Johnson stands behind the podium to give a speech. Paparazzi and the News Media record with their cameras. CU of President Johnson addressing Princeton University scholars and students. President Johnson: The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance but agony. We have used our power not willingly and worthlessly ever, but always reluctantly and with restraint. Surely it is not a paranoid vision of America s place in the world to recognize that freedom is still indivisible, still has adversaries whose challenge must be answered, today of course as we leave here that challenge is stern. at the moment in South-East Asia. Yet there as our prayer our great power is also tempered by great restraint. What nation has now such limited objections or such willingness to remove its military presence? Once those objectives are secured and achieved. What nation has spent the lives of their sons and vast sums of its fortune to provide the people of a small striving country the chance to elect a course that we might not ourselves choose? The Students and Scholars stand in applause of President Johnson's address.