“I’d say, if somebody asked me, if I mystically had the power  (except there is no mysticism):  {Agreeable laughter, clapping.}  ‘Should we pull out of Vietnam tomorrow?’  I would say yes, we never should have pulled in.  It was the fault of the same liberal – the same policy – that today is in the forefront of the anti-Vietnam marchers.  {A loud individual ‘NO’ then general clapping drowning out disagreeing voices.}  It was the product of Kennedy and Johnson but above all Kennedy – who today, because he’s not present, is regarded as an idealistic martyr – but it’s he who got us into Vietnam just the same.  And, uh, the Republicans and Democrats are pretty equally guilty of it, but since it was up to now a Democratic administration, it’s their war.  And I do not know how short a memory people can have or if you’re young and didn’t see it yourself, certainly there’s still enough evidence in the newspapers  (we don’t have censorship or book-burning yet)  you can look up the record of Vietnam and of Kennedy’s speeches about it, of Johnson’s speeches.  And if you want to go further back, go to World War Two and read about the campaign of the same gang – and there’s no other word for it  (uh, except that today it’s a political party, the Democrat-Liberal axis)  {Clapping} – that were insulting as ‘isolationists’ everybody who was opposed to our entering World War Two.  ‘Isolationism’ was regarded as a very dirty word.  You were accused of being narrowly patriotic and selfish because you didn’t want to mix into a foreign war.  And today it is suddenly the liberals that are isolationist?  Well look, it’s just too,  excuse me,  God-damn obvious.  {Agreeable laughter, extended clapping}”