:01:01
I share those feelings.
:01:03
Some nights, we're
the only airplane going up...
:01:05
going up into the north
:01:06
and when you're thinking
you're the only Americans
:01:09
over North Vietnam,
:01:10
it kind of makes you wonder
just a little bit, you know.
:01:12
"What am I doing here?"
:01:13
We have carefully limited
those raids.
:01:17
They've been directed
at concrete and steel
:01:19
and not human lives.
:01:21
There are at least 850
antiaircraft and missile sites
:01:26
around Hanoi and Haiphong.
:01:28
These figures make
Hanoi's air defense
:01:31
the toughest in the world.
:01:32
If you can get between...
:01:34
a ridge between you
and that radar site,
:01:36
they can't guide
a missile at you.
:01:37
It's just when you get down
in the delta in the flatlands,
:01:40
that 30-mile ring around...
the city of Hanoi,
:01:42
it's... it's a bear.
:01:44
Representatives of Hanoi
simply returned our message
:01:48
in a plain envelope.
:01:50
Residents of North Vietnam's
capital felt confident
:01:53
in the knowledge
that their city was off-limits
:01:55
to U.S. warplanes.
:01:56
With American sons
in the fields far away,
:02:01
I shall not seek, and l
will not accept the nomination
:02:05
of my party for another term
as your president.
:02:08
The greatest honor
history can bestow
:02:11
is the title of peacemaker.
:02:14
Do you think it's worth it?
:02:15
Yeah, l... I don't know.
:02:16
They... they say we're
fighting for something.
:02:18
I don't know.
:02:19
Through a long and bitter
struggle in Vietnam,
:02:21
American fighting men
:02:23
have served the cause
of freedom magnificently.
:02:25
You're... you're pretty scared
:02:26
when you have to roll in
on something out there,
:02:28
especially when you look down,
and you see nothing
:02:31
but a black cloud or
a white cloud down below you.
:02:33
It's a... it's about as...
as scary a mission
:02:36
as I've ever been on.
:02:37
I think it tries you
to just about the maximum,
:02:41
you know, the missions.